Direct Democracy Portal / News: Recent posts

Dependency upgrades:
spring 3.0.0.M4
hibernate 3.5.0.Beta-1
and some others.

Direct download link http://sourceforge.net/projects/edemocrazy/files/edemocrazy/1.0-alpha/democracy-1.0-alpha.zip/download

Since some people still download the source code I made some dependency upgrades to keep it more up to date.

Probably the last update to this project since development moved on to http://sourceforge.net/projects/cia/ which is based on some of this code.

Have made a new snapshot release.

Started to write importers for a lots of information about Swedish politicians from sites like www.val.se and www.riksdagen.se.

Externalized most strings to support English & Swedish.

Some refactoring of thinwire ActionListeners towards cleaner MVC pattern.

Also updated some of the icons and added correct license information.

Full changelog available at http://edemocrazy.sourceforge.net/changelog.html

Added a new snapshot release, been redoing a lots of gui basicly killed of the old jstl,tiles solution and replaced it with rich internet application framework Thinwire (Ajax).

Still very much work in progress and in heavy need of refactor but looks way cooler and I dont have do anymore webmonkey work.

Also upgraded most of the test to use junit4 annotations and spring framework junit4 test runners. Killed off a lots of the test but will sort that out later on again.... read more

Thought it was about time to do a new snapshot release since I still not close to releasing an alpha version.

Not any new features but have switched todo development in Jetty instead of Jboss since it much more lightweight.

Also generate some new reports
http://edemocrazy.sourceforge.net/springbeandoc/index.html
http://edemocrazy.sourceforge.net/entitymodel/entities/index.html
to visualize object model and spring service beans.... read more

Done some work and improved test, played with some new test structure..

Some general upgrades of dependencies..

Some small fixes and added a developer guide available at http://edemocrazy.sourceforge.net/developer.html

Also upgraded spring framework to version 2.0.2 and struts-tiles to version 1.2.9

Last code snapshot available from : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115046

Pether

Done some gui work since last snapshot release, added some icons from http://www.kde-look.org & sorted out a actiontab.

Also upgraded acegi-security to version 1.0.3.

Last code snapshot available from : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115046

Pether

Done some major refactoring since last file release, changed the .ear file deployment and simplified into
a .war file to simplify development.

Improved test quality by using HtmlUnit for acceptance testing and DbUnit for integration testing of DAO:s and the services layer.

Not much new features but getting happy with the general infrastructure & added security using acegi security.

Also upgraded some dependencies to like spring framework to 1.2.8 and hibernate annotations to 3.2.0ga to support EJB3 development.... read more

Have just released a new snapshot of the current code, avaible from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115046

This can be seen as a starting point for the next 0.2.3 release.

Since last snapshot I have added some documentation and also moved to use EJB3 annotations instead of hibernate xml mapping files.

Also of interest is that I am now having an open discussion with people engage in similar projects in the area of democracy and open source at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/top-politics... read more

Have just updated the project home page with a new Maven generated site, now with reports from JDepend, Junit, PMD Report and Source Xref (HTML based, cross-reference version of Java source code).

Released a new snapshot of the code
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115046

Still pre-alpha stage of this project and the goals for next release are:

To enable people to bootstrap political organisations governed through online Dircect Democracy using the Direct Democracy Portal as there public view, party portal, community and legislative body.... read more

Since the code under cvs isn't that visible this project have released it's first files for 20051219-Snapshot release.
Download from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115046

This contains the basic setup for building the Direct Democracy Portal using maven2, hibernate,spring,struts-tiles. Happy with the way I can do all my develop from eclipse and use jmx to deploy the application.... read more