Codehaus Cargo 1.8.2 is here!

Dear Codehaus Cargo enthusiasts

Shortly after our 1.8.0 and 1.8.1 releases, please welcome Codehaus Cargo 1.8.2. This new version comes with many changes under the hood:

• We updated our code standards to Java 8 (actually, some were long due since Java 7), including:

  • Conversion to the easier to read constructs such as switch over Strings, the beautiful try-with-resources, the simplified for-each loops and compact multi-catch statements.

  • Switching to the better behaving Collection.addAll (instead of manual population of Lists / Sets) and String.join (instead of manually created for loops with booleans checking if it the first element).

  • Please note that we didn't go crazy with Lambda expressions: they bring very little benefit in the case of a very procedural process like Codehaus Cargo's (except perhaps for the XML-related parts where we do a lot of filtering), and in case something goes wrong the stack trace is very difficult to read...

• While we did these updates, we also revised the Codehaus Cargo CI and enabled Java 6-based container tests. That implied further changes under the hood, for example changes in the version compatibility for the Cargo Samples Test Data modules. These obviously do not have much "visible" impact, yet enabled us to catch some long hidden bugs! See below...

• Containers - Resin:

  • [CARGO-1530] We fixed the bug where the Resin 3.x container didn't work: ResinRun was being compiled to work with Java 7 onwards (since October 2018), yet due to incompatibilities between com.caucho.log.EnvironmentLogger and the behaviour described in JDK-8015098, Resin 3.x doesn't run on Java 7 and above! We hence also build the Codehaus Cargo Resin container with Java 6 as the minimum version, while Java 8 remains the standard for all others.

Lesson learnt from this release? Well, if something is not tested, one should assume it is broken...

To try out this latest version:

• Users of the Maven 2 / Maven 3 plugin simply need to use the Codehaus Cargo plugin version 1.8.2

• Users of the Java API can download the new Uberjar from https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/cargo/cargo-core-uberjar/1.8.2/cargo-core-uberjar-1.8.2.jar

• Similarly, users of the ANT tasks can download the new ANT tasks from https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/cargo/cargo-ant/1.8.2/cargo-ant-1.8.2.jar

• Finally, the ones who want to see the Cargo Daemon can get it from https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/cargo/cargo-daemon-webapp/1.8.2/cargo-daemon-webapp-1.8.2.war and either use the WAR directly as an executable JAR or as a WAR file deployed on another Web container

Enjoy!