Blackboard now in Beta!

Blackboard is now Beta! New version of Blackboard (beta-0.20) is now available for download. This version comes with programmatic workspace configuration support, Json workspace serialization, and automatic jar file loading for standalone operation.

Next up for Blackboard, automatic Json based workspace persistence. Rumor has it we are working on a new persistence layer built specially to support the Blackboard's persistence needs. Stay tuned!

Hannibal is in the Cloud!

We just pushed code generator support for Amazon's S3 key value store into Google Code. Now developers can generate data access objects that can persist data to S3. Active records are serialized to JSON then published to an S3 bucket named after your application's name. Retrieving data simply involves changing the JSON string back to an active record using the fromJson() method.

Here is what a URI path for a marathonracing's race domain object in S3 would look like

marathonracing/race/cherryblossom

where marathonracing is your S3 bucket name and race/cherryblossom is your S3 object.

Very simple.

We are testing this functionality now. Expect to see this in the next major release of Hannibal.