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[edit] GMF 1.1.1
GMF 1.1.1 was released with some bugfixes. This is the recommended version for production sites.
1/26/2007
[edit] GMF 1.1.0 announce
This is the announce of GMF 1.1. It's been a long road since 1.0.1, and although we'd wanted to release it sooner, we think the work to be done deserved our best efforts.
There are improvements everywhere, specially in the ITIL modules.
The usual Incident Management was improved and new modules appeared: the Change Management, the inventory, the SLA and the contracts associated with hardware. Inventory can be fed with data from Winventory (now called Open-AudIT). The reporting resources were also improved to publish relevant information about tickets, changes and SLAs, in HTML and PDF formats.
Also, GMF can work as a portlet (JSR-168 specification), and it's been tested successfully with Liferay 3/4.
Another important addition is Active Directory support. You can use an existing Active Directory to authenticate users and use your domain users and groups in the gmf acls.
Hope you like it! We're looking forward already to the new features that will go into the next major release!
The complete Changelog is in the TGZ file as usual.
9/11/2006
[edit] GMF 1.0.0 announce
We're proud to announce the release of GMF 1.0. We finally decided to name it 1.0.0 because of the big changes and improvements since the last published version and because we're confident this code is stable enough to be used in production systems. In fact, we've been using it in a few busy sites without any noticeable problems. As usual, the Incident Management module has received our biggest attention and work, and now it's ready to do all desirable work without being touched much in the future. Time reporting is the more important addition and it's done using a great new feature, subforms or subresources.
Another great feature is file indexing with Lucene. When performing searches, file contents will also be checked and presented as search results. Supported file types right now are: txt, Microsoft Office (doc, xls, ppt, pps), pdf, OpenOffice (odt, ods, odp, sxw, sxc , sxi), xml, htm.
The complete Changelog is in the war file.
Incident Management or Trouble Ticket
It's never been easier to set up an Incident Management with your own users and support groups, work flow, notifications, automatic tasks, .... Try the online demo. Be aware that you can personalize completely the web design (see the screenshots).
1/23/2006
[edit] GMF 0.9.1 announce
This release contains several bug fixes and improvements, specially user defined filters. This new feature allows users to define their own filters based on search criterias. This is very useful when applied to the trouble ticketing (help desk) module.
See the complete changelog for further information.
6/28/2005
[edit] GMF 0.9.0 announce
GMF 0.9 is here. This is a big step forward and GMF is now ready for production systems.
Major work has been done in the core elements, making them faster and better, and allowing multiple data sources inside the same form (like SQL or LDAP). The trouble ticketing and project management have evolved, being now more usable and scalable.
Everybody is invited to download and test it. We're waiting your comments and code.
6/3/2005
[edit] GMF 0.8.5
Hi everybody! A new release of GMF is available. It's been almost two long months of testing, and although the only major feature added to this version is the basic search subsystem, there are many improvements in here to make it an important release. This is the better and the fastest GMF to the day. So have a nice install!
02/16/2005
[edit] GMF 0.8.4 released!
Several bug fixes and improvements, specially in the sales and trouble ticketing modules. See changelog for further details.
12/20/2004
[edit] GMF 0.8.3 available
GMF 0.8.3 is available! This version moves resources initialization from java classes to external xml files to be able to change their definition without modifying the java code, and it adds support for auto-creation of resources inside containers and limiting the maximum number of a given resource allowed inside a container.
This definition files will also have the parameters definition in the future.
11/30/2004
[edit] GMF 0.8.2 available
GMF 0.8.2 is available for download. It adds pagination functionality to containers, and now working with containers with a large set of child resources is easier than before. Also, some other minor improvements and minor bug fixes.
11/17/2004
[edit] GMF 0.8.1 available
A bug with ACLs cache was causing important problems. So this is mainly a bug fixing release.
11/07/2004
GMF 0.8 released!
Many changes since 0.7. The most important addition is the workflow module and a trouble ticketing system with two support levels (call center and system administrators). The workflow module is thought to keep track of state changes within a resource, it's not designed to work between resources. It's quite simple and the workflow is defined using an external XML file which is parsed using a Xmlbean. The trouble ticketing system is a demonstration of how to use the workflow, but it's a working TTS right now and with little improvement it will be really useful. Also there's a whole bunch of other changes, see the complete changelog for further details.
11/03/2004
[edit] Released GMF v.0.7
Here it goes release 0.7.
The biggest work has been done in the sales module. We have a pretty useful sales management with accounts, contacts, opport unities and activities. There are also improvements in other areas, like the parameter grouping functionality in forms or resource selects with mult iple conditions. For performance, an ACLs cache using Jcache has been added, and there's also the code to have a published data cache, but it 's not functional yet. I suppose it will make it for 0.8.
The interesting thing here is that we're ready now to do a new step and build basic workflow functionality and test it with a basic trouble ticketing system. These are the major milestones for 0.8.
Again, developers are needed. If you are interested in what we are doing, send an e-mail.
10/15/2004
[edit] GMF v.0.6 released
GMF 0.6 is out! Some interesting things are added to this version. The biggest addition is the sales module. More work is needed to have a full sales management, but basic features are in place. You can use it to track opportunities, planned activities, contacts, etc. This is also a good example of what modules should be. Work has been done in the Toolbar, making it easy to add new options to it from the resources, and the new Html package makes it easy to build html output without having to write html code. And a bunch of other changes to make it easy to develop new resources and to control parameters types. You can see the detailed changelog for details!
10/04/2004
[edit] GMF v.0.5 released
New parameter types are available to resources now. Now all basic types are covered (Integer, Double, Date, Text, Textarea a nd Select parameters may be used). Also, Jasper Reports (http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net) and JCache (http://jcache.sourceforge.net) libraries are adde d to the project, the first one to be able to create reports in multiple formats (HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV, and others) easily an d through a graphical interface (iReport: http://ireport.sourceforg e.net), and the JCache library to replace own Cache object. JCache is much powerful and well tested (and we don't want t o reinvent the wheel...).
Changelog
- New parameter types: PASSWORD, INTEGER, DOUBLE, DATE.
- Merged JSCalendar for date selection (http://sourceforg e.net/projects/jscalendar/)
- Show select options ordered.
- Use a LinkedHashMap in class Form to keep parameters ordering instead of using an auxiliar ArrayList only for this purpose.
- Check that menu options are not duplicated.
- Pass WorkArea to all instantiated resources.
- Added executeAbstractPath to build linked path to resources.
- Merged Jasper Reports for report generation.
- Resources ExpensesReportContainer, ExpensesReport and AdminExpensesReport.
- Select parameter with options in a database.
- Merged JCache library and deleted own cache object.
9/26/2004
[edit] GMF v.0.4 available
New GMF release, with significant improvements in the data exchange interface between resources, and the time tracker added, allowing time reporting for projects and tasks.
Changelog
- Allow publishing Data sources to arbitrary containers, not only to parents.
- Teams publish their data to parent projects, not to parent containers.
- SELECT parameters now have a value (to be stored in the database) and a caption (to show to the user when building select inputs).
- Changes in the way of publishing data. Delete ResPublishData interface. We had two interfaces for doing the same thing.
- Resource: TimeReportContainer
- Resource: TimeReport. This is the time tracker resource. Can work inside a project or outside. If outside, user can report to all projects.
- TimeReport: show only tasks that user is assigned to.
- Basic TimeReportAdmin resource (time tracking by user and project).
- Deferred population of SELECT parameters.
- Added some localized strings.
- Javadoc update
9/17/2004
[edit] GMF v.0.3 available
The big change in this release is the new ResPublishData interface to allow intercommunication between resources. This is used with the new project, task list and project team resources.
Changelog
- Doc XSL Cache (xslCache.java).
- Support for select fields in form definition.
- TabbedResourceContainer
- Customer/CustomerContainer improvements.
- Resource: Customer Contact, storing information about the customer.
- Resource: Image Gallery
- Resource: Folder
- Resource: ProjectContainer
- Resource: a basic Project resource.
- Resource: Team
- Resource: Task
- Resource: TaskList
- DataExchange between Resources through the ResPublishData interface
- Added some localized strings.
9/13/2004
[edit] GMF v.0.2 available
There are some important changes in this release. The biggest one is the new HTTP parameters management, done by RequestPara meters. It encapsulates HttpServletRequest and parameters can be accessed no matter the method or enctype used: GET, POST or multipart form.
Changelog
- Show current path and link to parent resources.
- Multi-language support. More localization work has to be done.
- Permissions propagation to contained resources when administering ACLs.
- Work area design improvements.
- RequestParameters. Encapsulation of HttpServletRequest. Gets all HTTP parameters no matter the method or enctype used.
- New parameter type TextArea.
- New resource FileResource.
- New resource Image.
- New resource Notes. It can contain SimpleText and Files.
9/6/2004
[edit] First available release: GMF v.0.1
First public release of GMF is available. This first release already has the basic framework elements allowing the creation of resources and administration of users, groups and permissions.
9/1/2004
