Solutions Support

Fixes

• General
  • The Scheduler does not use predefined Task executors
• Persistence
  • Check UUID and uuid property when receive event in JSON format
  • Response was always written as XML when receive in other format like JSON 
• Messaging
  • Already persist messages are tried to store in database after AppCenter (re)start

Enhancements

• General
  • Update Spring Framework to 4.3.20
  • Update Spring Security to 4.2.9
  • Update to CrossTalk AppCenter Theme 3.3.3
  • Update toCrossTalk AppCenter UI 3.3.5
  • Add CrossTalk AppCenter RFID Components 3.3.0
  • Add CrossTalk Application - Notifications 3.3.1
  • Add CrossTalk Application - History 3.3.0
  • Load enclosed apps only if not available or newer than installed
• Persistence
  • Improve Event cleanup performance for MySQL database

Fixes

• Unsubscribe from an folder in Device Management not work correctly
• Subscriptions are not work correctly after a AppCenter restart

Improvements

• Improve logging for database definition updates
• Update to AppCenter UI 3.3.3 (only loaded when not available) 
• Update to AppCenter Full-text Search 3.3.0 (only loaded when not available) 
• Update Spring Framework to 4.3.19
• Update Spring Security to 4.2.8

Fixes

• Avoid NoSuchBeanDefinitionException when a view not exists
• The Anonymous user was always loaded no matter if it is active or not
• Add some missing UI messages
• The Content-Type in HTTP response was not always set correctly
• Remove database changes which are not need anymore
• Avoid skip database definition update for some changes
• Fix transaction isolation issue when update data base schema for MS SQL

Improvements

• Update to actual Versions of Third party libraries
• Update to AppCenter UI 3.3.2 (only loaded when not available) 
• Allow to restart AppCenter with /dispatcher/restart (Authentication required)
• Allow to restart AppCenter without Applications with /dispatcher/restart?mode=secure  (Authentication required)

Fixes

• AppCenter UI was not loaded in IBM WebSphere Liberty
• Column headers are not loaded loaded for some properties
• Fix memory leak when a table is not selectable

Improvements

• Update to actual Versions of Third party libraries
• Allow to upload custom theme
• Save current width of left navigation and restore it when user login
• Show Active since and Last activity for current active users in Administration -> System Info
• Show Changed at/by for users, groups, roles and application settings
• Implement persistent queue for asynchronous event processing
• Implement new endpoint nofilis-app-center/dispatcher/queue/event for asynchronous event processing
• Publish event over message broker after a element or event was saved
•  Integrate a new Scheduler
• Show list of current scheduled tasks in Administration -> System info
• Implement option for parallel processing of message queues
• Implement send retry for message queues

Fixes

• Object type was displayed twice in Administration -> Object List -> Object Details

Improvements

• Allow to add additional properties to Object types without development
• Allow to global overwrite store option per event type
• Show subscriptions in User details and allow to unsubscribe it
• Show Running since in Administration -> System Info
• Show Application Name in Administration -> Roles

General

• Update to actual Versions of Third party libraries
• Add basic statistics for internal message broker in Administration -> System Info -> Message Broker Statistics
• Complete UI is now moved to AppCenter UI Package to allow updates without new core package

Fixes

• Fix Transaction abort issue on event cleanup for Microsoft SQL databases
• Fix write wrong CSV header when export/request data
• Stop UI background communication when response can not be read
• Update third party library to avoid remote execution attacks

Improvements

• Write Database changelog debug log messages to Application server log file
• Add Support for IBM WebSphere Liberty 17.0.x
• AppCenter respond now with HTTP 400 error when incoming message has invalid data format
• Count number of Elements/Events stored in database visible in Administration -> Events & Objects -> Persistence Info
• Execute same transaction up to three times when cleanup events throw a exception
• Reduce database transaction size on event cleanup
• Show Running since in Administration -> App Center -> System Info
• Allow to customize all available I18n Messages in Administration -> App Center -> I18n

Fixes

• Fix use correct column names when exporting
• Fix a NullPointerException, when queries were done from HTTP requests (HDT or browsers).

Improvements

• Allow to copy&paste a single permission in role details
• Prohibit the sorting of columns with multiple values per row
• Improve performance when search object by name

Fixes

• Users & Groups selection popup shows all objects from database when search with '*'

Improvements

• Improve response stream when query many data over HTTP
• Event cleanup does not work when a different age is configured for some event types

General

Fixes

• General: Application initialization procedure are executed twice under certain circumstances
• Versioning: Exception was thrown when create the first version from a process template for example.
• UI: The Time Filter does not use time zone from logged in user.

Improvements

• General: Re-implement CSV conversion to improve performance.
• UI: Re-implement CSV Export to improve performance for large amount of rows.
• UI: Improve performance of Excel Export for larger amount of rows.
• UI: To avoid unexpected actions like delete wrong rows, selection in tables is cleared when sort order was changed.
• UI: Improve load and sort performance of tables with large amount of rows
• Persistence: Re-implement internal database queries to improve performance.
• Persistence: Improve usage of internal Second-Level cache.

General

• Allow to configure path to nofilis-app-center.properties file over JNDI resource (<application-context-name>/config/file)
• Allow to configure logout URL in Administration -> Settings which is useful when using SingleSignOn infrastructure.
• Implement permissions for HTTP access to events, elements and nodes to allow more restrictive roles than "AppCenter Dispatcher"

Fixes

• Pins are not rendered when user zoom in/out in Indoor maps.
• Fix load properties in Filters which are not need/visible.
• When a property selection is read-only render it as label to avoid unnecessary database queries.
• CSV Import does not work correctly when last delimiter is missing.
• AppCenter could not be started when wrong LDAP settings are set.
• Initialize view in Tab only when user click on it.
• Exception was thrown when try to store first version of a rule, template etc.
• No page was found when using ../nofilis-app-center/workbench instead of ../nofilis-app-center/workbench/ as entry url.

Improvements

• Static resources should no be cached by browser till next AppCenter restart.
• Add createdAt/By and lastChangedAt/By per default as properties but don't display them.
• Show createdAt/By and lastChangedAt/By of elements in Events & Objects -> Object list.
• Show record time of events in Events & Objects -> Event list.
• Allow to set password never expires per user.
• Allow to create custom Roles in Administration and show all deployed by Applications.
• Allow to export Elements in json format.
• Allow to download multiple Applications as zip.
• Allow to upload multiple Application as zip.
• Show user details when double click on it in Group details.

Fixes

• When delete a Element within Events & Objects remove also all leaf nodes
• Set the timestamp of a incoming event to servers timetamp when when missing
• Allow to download installed applications with right mouse click
• Add new Network Test test for simple connection and ping tests to Administration -> App Center -> System Info
• Disable Upload button in Administration -> App Center -> Applications
• Forward HTTP requests to dispatcher/ping when App Center was started with errors
• Event cleanup always tried to delete old events per day when set "Clean range step" to hour
• Remove "Clean range step" from Events & Objects configuration and set it fixed to hour
• Allow to configure thead pool size for scheduler and task executor within external app-center.properties file

Fixes

• Wrong Logut URL was used when a Proxy Server is in front of AppCenter Application Server
• Events & Objects -> Object List -> Details does not display last changed at/created at as Date
• Fix broken automatic data update when server does temporary not respond
• Add Support for IBM WebSphere Liberty
• Use nvarchar instead of varchar when create Database tables for Microsoft SQL Server

Fixes

• Show the Id of users in Selection when the Name exists more than once, to select the right one.
• Fix NullPointerException in Live Event List
• Fix NullPointerException when all views in a composite view are not visible
• When using a Date/Time format with 12-hour clock the the wrong period was sometimes displayed
• Security View shows sometimes old/wrong values

General

• Add XML as Export format for Elements
• Licenses can now initial installed with the application.

UI

• Add feature to set highlight color for each Object in Indoor Map
• The configured Server Name is no displayed in Browser Window title

Fixes

• Fix NullPointerExceptions when display events, elements or nodes
• Fix problem when create new version from a element like process template
• Avoid lookup when value and label property are same in selection
• Improve performance when update markers on global map
• Avoid exceptions when a user session become inactive

General

• Administrators are able to send messages to logged in users from System Info -> Current Users
• Upload a custom logo to show on login page
• Allow to register additional custom servlet filters per extension
• Add option to convert username to upper/lower case characters
• Allow to configure element properties to use as a web resource
• Installed applications are able to create system accounts which can not be deleted

UI

• Show different colors for origin (red) and calibration (purple) points in location editor
• Show number of deleted rows from a table
• Show current logged in username on the top right corner

Persistence

• Allow to restore specific properties from a element version
• Allow to change default transaction isolation in nofilis-app-center.properties

Fixes

• Automatically refresh Web page on "Out of sync" errors
• J2CA0081E Error on IBM WebSphere
• Show AppCenter Restart message in users Language
• Each request per user is now synchronized to avoid inconsistent application states.
• Show only one notification when multiple files are uploaded

General

• Update Spring Framework to 4.1.7
• Update requirement to Java 6
• Update third party libraries to newer version
• Show list of active users and allow to send messges to selected one
• Allow to filter for a specific role in user list
• Allow to filter for a specific role in group list
• Allow to filter for a specific user in group list
• Allow to edit group membership in user details
• Always show created at/by and changed at/by in Events & Objects
• Check if a non leaf node point to the element which would be delete in Events & Objects
• Implement Authentication for other systems with a fixed key and a dynamic token
• Allow to change path to configuration file by system property -D<context-root>.config.file
• Implement failover support with Hazelcast
• Implement support for extension points with annotations
• Write error to Notification Center when a mail can not be sent
• Auto create tables for H2 database
• Show special web page and respond with HTTP 503 error when AppCenter is restarting

UI

• Add support to receive URL paramters in views
• Show number of selected items in Tables
• Allow to hide navigation (noNav=true) and header (noHeader=true) per URL parameter
• Use button or URL parameter (fullScreen=true) to hide navigation and minimize header
• Allow to reorder columns and store it in user settings
• Allow to show/hide columns and store it in user settings

Persistence

• Allow to add filter properties for element based selections
• Allow to check permission on element based selections
• Allow to check permissions per property with parameter "checkPermission=true"
• Allow to configure a validator with regular expressions with "validator.regexp"
• Allow to order Listeners in persistence with @Order annotation or Order interface
• Implement HistoryRepository API
• Implement VersionRepository to store different versions of a element
• Use index to check unique element id per type to improve performance

Fixes

• Map locator label was not displayed complete when positioned near top border
• Wrong view was selected in some menus after login
• All menu entries in item(s) menu where enabled after login, even it should be disabled

General

• Update Spring Framework to 3.2.13
• A simple endpoint "../dispatcher/ping" was added to check the keep alive of AppCenter
• Allow to import users
• Allow to configure locale and timezone per user, by default uses browser locale settings

UI

• Allow to add a sort order progamatically for applications
• Set the focus to first editable field when switch to edit mode
• All Date, Datetime and Timestamp fields now using users timezone to display the value
• Allow to print a subset of visible content

Persistence

• Allow to register Listeners to be notified inside, or outside a transaction

Persistence Remote Access

• Allow to respond elements in JSON format
• Allow to receive events in JSON format
• Respond with HTTP 409 error on concurrency exceptions

Fixes

• Event cleanup has stopped working

Fixes

• When check permissions on collection of nodes it does not validate if users permission is from same domain object

Security

• Allow to check if user has role on a collection of nodes/elements

Persistence

• With Oracle database the update of Elements are not worked correctly.
• If user like to search a word which contains _,?,* or % it must be surrounded by double quotes

Persistence Remote Access

• Allow to select the number of properties in Nodes with $select parameter

Fixes

• Catch all Exceptions when a Application is using the internal Messaging System
• Catch all Exceptions when Mail Sender consume Messages via Messaging System
• Check if Thread is running when add Message to a Topic or Queue to avaoid OutOfMemoryError

Persistence

• Delete Nodes which has references to no longer existing Elements when AppCenter starts
• Allow to Query UUID or id of an Element without to load the whole Element (ElementRepository.findPropertiesBy)

UI

• Use TextField instead of ExpandingTextField when "colums" parameter is defined for a property

Fixes

• Applications can now be loaded from database when running on JBoss
• NULL values are not stored in database
• Version number was not loaded when running on IBM WebSphere
• NullPointerException was thrown when try to convert empty date/number values
• Configured input prompt are not visible for all supported components

General

• Update Spring Framework to 3.2.11
• Update Spring Security to 3.1.7
• Allow to upload custom AppCenter logo
• Show AppCenter settings provided by properties file

Persistence

• Improve performance when insert/update/delete Elements
• Implement post persist listener support for Events
• Implement pre persist listener support for Elements
• Add changelog to ElementCreatedEvent
• Last changed at and last changed by are only set if Authentication informations are available

UI

• Improve Locator component performance
• Allow to configure Locator component to cluster by max. number of pins

Persistence Remote Access

• Switch off response of sent event with $response=false

Fixes

• Disable delete admin and anonymous user
• Problem with mssql database when number value is null
• Nodes are not filtered out correctly when check ACL

Persistence

• Automatically create AppCenter database tables if not exits
• Allow to configure a separate log file to track database changes
• Change lastChangedAt and lastChangedBy only if Authentication infos are available
• Update second level cache when a Element was changed instead of delete it

Security

• Allow to attach custom Authentication Filters as Extensions

UI

• Show different images when a application was added/updated/deleted or not loaded
• Some style and popup window size improements

API

• Applications can use Liquibase to create/update Database Schema
• Limit Element/Event type id to 128 characters
• Limit property id to 64 characters