OpenXava 4.7.1: Rapid Java Web Development

VALENCIA, Spain - May 29, 2013 - PRLog -- OpenXava is an open source framework for rapid development of business applications using Java. It is easy to learn and one can have an application up in no time. At the same time, OpenXava is extensible, customizable and the application code is structured in a very pure object oriented way, allowing you to develop arbitrarily complex applications.

The OpenXava approach for rapid development differs from those that use visual environments (like Visual Basic or Delphi) or scripting (like PHP). Instead, OpenXava uses a model-driven development approach, where the core of your application are Java classes that model your problem. This means you can stay productive while still maintaining a high level of encapsulation.

OpenXava 4.7.1 is a maintenance version with the next fixes:
- New alignedByColumns property in xava.properties to aligned all the members by columns in the user interface.
- Support of # for root view, also available as aligned-by-columns for classic XML components.
- Images gallery editor uses a dialog.
- Russian documentation improved.
- New layout engine improved again, though it is still in BETA it is perfectly usable.
- New generic controller Close useful for dialogs with just a close button.
- On closing a dialog if it has an action named return, volver, close or cerrar, the action is called automatically.
- Counter injected in IAggregateOidCalculator now is a random number. It only applies to XML classic components.
- Gallery.removeImage action asks for user confirmation.
- New clearCondition() method in Tab, to clear the condition values and comparators.
- Some new common use labels to be used in applications.
- Fix: Adding images to a gallery from a dialog produces a JavaScript error.
- Fix: Methods assertDialog(), assertNoDialog(), assertDialogTitle(), closeDialog() of ModuleTestBase fail after upload a file.
- Fix: Title for dialogs with no associated model has an unneeded hyphen.
- Fix: Dialog titles are lost when closing dialogs after upload a file from a dialog.    
- Fix: When elements are hidden or shown inside a dialog the dialog width is not adjusted.
- Fix: With two embedded collections of the same type adding to the second collection adds the element to the first one.  
- Fix: View.getValues() returns only a copy of the first tree level, so it produces some lateral effects sometimes.
- Fix: If updating an entity fails referenced objects can be left created.
- Fix: Filters in collections are stored between elements.
- Fix: A ValidationException (both org.openxava and javax.validation) from a callback method shows an ugly message to the user.
- Fix: It loses the added or removed actions in the list when you change to the detail mode.
- Fix: Grammatical errors in English messages.
- Fix: Date in footer of PDF reports is formatted using server locale instead of client locale.
- Fix: Composite structure fails when the parent reference is not named as the entity.
- Fix: Checkbox editors for non-boolean values does not work.
- Fix: Polymorphic reference from a base class fails.

You can download it for free here:
http://www.openxava.org