Changes in 0.5.0

Release date: 2017-03-18.

[lang]

• Upgrade to Xtext 2.11. (details)
• New Agent API. (details)
• Add inheritance of constructors. (details)
• Add “break” keyword. (details)
• Warn when occurrence is modified. (details)
• Error when redeclaring occurrence. (details)
• Generate serialVersionUID. (details)
• Enabling generation of anonymous classes. (details)
• Add warning when using Inline annotation. (details)
• Reserve the keyword “artifact” for further use. (details)

[core]

• Behaviors:
  • Upgrade Behaviors capacity with hasRegisteredBehavior and getRegisteredBehaviors. (details)
  • Add filter for registerBehavior. (details)
  • Add scope parameter to the wake function. (details)
• DefaultContextInteractions:
  • Add Inline to the receive() function. (details)
  • Deprecate spawn() in DefaultContextInteractions (details)
  • Allow null scope. (details)
• Lifecycle:
  • Enforce the agent killing process. (details)
  • Add spawn() in Lifecycle. (details)
  • Spawn more than one agent. (details)
• Schedules:
  • Change AgentTask guard type for fitting the Xtext generated closures. (details)
  • Add the atFixedDelay() function in the Schedules capacity. (details)
  • Add the execute() function in the Schedules capacity. (details)
  • Add isCancelled for agent tasks. (details)
• Events:
  • Add spawner in the Initialize event. (details)
  • Standard events are final. (details)

[lang.core]

• Generate inner class for context aware capacity calls. (details)
• Avoid NPE in AgentTrait. (details)

[utils]

• Add functions in Scopes. (details)
• Add SarlSpecificationChecker. (details)
• Internal Event Bus:
  • Move the guard evaluator detector from Janus to io.sarl.util. (details)
  • Remove the list of listeners in the internal event bus skill. (details)
  • Fire Initialize and Destroy in behaviors. (details)

[eclipse] and [product]

• Upgrade to Eclipse Neon.2. (details)
• Add OO element creation shortcuts. (details)
• Add menu item for submitting issues. (details)
• Embed icons for new OO element wizards. (details)
• Add source bundles. (details)
• Include JavaFX in the product. (details)
• Add the elevator simulator project into the success stories. (details)
• Fixing configuration for MacOS product. (details)
• Give proposals on field’s type. (details)
• Capacity calls in hovers are correctly formated. (details)
• SARL signatures in hovers. (details)

[sre]

• Upgrade to Gson 2.8.0. (details)
• Upgrade to ZeroMQ 0.3.6. (details)
• Upgrade to Hazelcast 3.8. (details)
• Enforce the agent killing process. (details)
• Cancel tasks when behavior is unregistered. (details)
• Ensure clearing of buffered skills. (details)
• Efficient access to builtin skills. (details)
• Optimization of the internal agent event bus. (details)
• Remove unnecessary code in the internal agent event bus. (details)
• Remove reference to DeadEvent. (details)
• Add -version command line option. (details)
• Synchronize context and space service. (details)
• Synchronize network-based services. (details)
• Synchronize NoNetworkService. (details)
• Synchronize StandardDistributedDataStructureService. (details)
• Synchronize StandardKernelDiscoveryService. (details)
• Synchronize JdkExecutorService. (details)
• Change synchronization of event spaces. (details)
• Stop not periodic tasks on exception. (details)
• Simplify the executor service implementation. (details)
• Mark as thread-safe the simple services. (details)
• Add configuration property for specifying the max number of threads. (details)
• Remove DistributedSpace interface. (details)

[maven]

• Fixing the documentation generator. (details)
• Add archive filename attribute in the SRE plugin. (details)

[latex]

• Add single comments into the LaTeX styles. (details)

[docs]

• New spawning API. (details)
• Add CONTRIBUTING.adoc. (details)
• Add documentation contributor. (details)
• Add functions in Scopes. (details)
• Add documentation about anonymous classes. (details)
• Add guideline for contributors. (details)
• Add best practise for event creation with a builder. (details)
• Doc for ambiguous call to capacity function. (details)
• Rename startJanus. (details)
• Reorganize the FAQ. (details)
• Update the SRE launching documentation. (details)

For Developers

• Reactivate the Linux compilation. (details)
• Enable tests on OSX Travis CI. (details)
• Enable tests on Windows Appveyor. (details)
• Add Neon preferences for developers. (details)
• Generate function for creating “uses” programmatically. (details)

Previous changes

• Changes in the version 0.4.3