Revision history for Perl extension Java.

1.0 Fri Apr 28 16:36:29 2000

Java stuff got updated to 2.1 - Perl stuff still at 2.0 

        1/24/01
        - Included Andreas Leue's code to statically start and stop
                JavaServer from within an already-running Java app
                Check out 'test_test.pl' in the Perl examples directory
                so see what this looks like on the Perl side.  Pretty
                much the same!
                On the Java side you can now use 'JavaServer.start()',
                or 'JavaServer.start(int port)' to specify a port other
                than 2000 to programmatically start JavaServer & you
                similarly use 'JavaServer.stop()' to stop the madness
                when you've had enough fun.
                Like:

                public class MyApp
                {
                        public static void main(String args[])
                        {
                                // Allow JavaServer to 'hook' into
                                //      your running program
                                JavaServer.start();

                                // Do whatever yer program does

                                // Done
                                JavaServer.stop();
                        }
                }
        - Fixed stupid bug about the MANIFEST file looking for Java.jar
                when it's really called JavaServer.jar

Perl stuff up to 2.1 - Java stuff the same 

        2/22/01
        - Fixed bug in 'static_call' so it now uses PARAMETER_SEPARATOR
                (thanks to David Roth)
        - Fixed bugs in java_server_install.pl to correctly reference 
                'JavaServer.jar' & not 'Java.jar'
                (thanks to Slavan Rezic & David Roth)
Perl stuff up to 2.2 - Java stuff the same
        3/9/01
        - Overloaded '==' to be the same as the 'same' function.
                So instead of having to do:
                        if ($obj1.same($obj2))
                You can now do:
                        if ($obj1 == $obj2)
                Check out the perldoc.
        - Added JavaArray tied interface for Java arrays!
                See 'perldoc Java' for all the glorious details!
                It's very cool!  See 'array.pl' in 'examples' directory
                for example usage.
        - Some other random bug fixes for the install stuff

Both Perl & Java stuff moved up to 3.0 

        3/21/01
        - Moved up major version numbers because the JavaServer protocol
                has changed & is incompatible with previous versions.
                It was changed to handle multi-line sending.  Now all commands
                sent & received must be terminated by a Control-A beginning
                a line by itself (akin to SMTP and the '.' to end DATA).
        - So now you can say something like:
                my $str = $java->create_object("java.lang.String","multi\nline\string);
                As well as correctly fetch the value using 'get_value'.
        - Should ONLY effect multi-line String processing BUT since the
                protocol itself has changed yer gonna need 3.x versions so
                they can understand each other.
Perl stuff up to 3.1 Java stuff the same
        5/16/01
        - AUTOLOAD function now correctly recognizes if it's dealing with
                a static or instantiated method call - THEREFORE you can now
                call instantiated functions with '_'s in their names.
        - Also threw in some reorg of how functions get called to isolate
                the code.

.... - License change for Perl code to Perl's Artistic License (was GPL) .... - License change for Java code to LGPL 2.1 (was GPL)

6/29/01 Perl 3.2 Java 3.1

7/10/01
Perl & Java both to 4.0
Date: 994752000 

4.0     Authorization additions - now a shared secret between server &
                client can exist to allow the server to authorize
                remote clients.  Hopefully this will open the door to
                further security enhancements.
        Event port usage can now be turned off by specifying an event_port
                of '-1'
        Callback objects can be created & used to allow Java to call Perl 
                See the Java2Perl.java classfile and the java2perl directory
                under 'examples' & Java.pm's perldoc
        Thanks to Achim Settelmeier for the Auth & Callback Stuff! Good Job!
        Added support for getting the last Exception object & a convenience
                method for dumping its stack trace into a perl array via
                the 'get_exception' and 'get_stack_trace' methods.  See the
                perldoc.  Before all you could get was just the String-ified
                message ('getMessage()') of the Exception.

Perl 4.1
Date: 996440427 Sun Jul 29 14:00:27 2001 File: perl/Java.pm
2001/07/20 22:39:44
Allow blank lines for callbacks
File: perl/Java.pm
2001/07/17 15:50:25
Made sure exceptions are stored in the 'java' object & not the instantiated object. added some convenience functions for this too File: perl/Java.pm
2001/07/13 14:59:51
Put eval'ed callbacks in package main by default like it should have been in the first place
File: perl/Java.pm
2001/07/10 18:47:36
Changed '\r' to more portable '\015' Date: 996702730 Wed Aug 1 14:52:10 2001 Date: 1007147938 Fri Nov 30 11:18:58 2001

Perl 4.2

fixed Java.pm to work with Windows 2k

1/19/04
Java 5.0

put Java stuff into 'com.zzo.javaserver' package Java 4.6

fix test script

2/25/04
Java 5.1