Paladin.0.9.0.RC3.Ready

With all those high-profile releases like Windows Vista Beta 1 and IE 7 Beta 1 under the microscope of almost everyone on the web, over here in a little corner, I have also made my own release - Paladin RAD Framework 0.9.0 RC3 is now available! You can download it from my project workspace.

This release stabilizes the architectural changes that were introduced in RC1 and further enhances the functionality of the framework. A lot of the internals have been re-organized and their code refactored to make the implementation cleaner. There are also minor changes to the BusinessComponent and ServicedBusinessComponent classes.

As for the more sophisticated part of the framework, the Component Workflow architecture has been completely revised. It can now support basic sequential invocation of business components and handling exceptional cases. Passing of state information between the business components in the workflow chain is also enhanced.

This release also introduces an experimental version of the UI Process Controller that can be used to manage the interactions between .aspx pages. It can support basic text query strings and encrypted query strings (supported by the SecuredQueryString class).

On the tools end, the BEWizard has been updated to support views and was fine-tuned to match the revised many-to-many implementations in the framework. The artwork has also been updated - check out the knight icon provided by Shunjie! The SampleKit has also been updated to contain close to 30 examples.

I hope I have got you excited up to here. For more information on the changes, visit the project workspace or better still, download and test it! :)

I would like to thank all my beta-testers for continuously providing feedback to me on the framework and I hope to do my best in future versions.