It’s done! That line in the sand has been drawn. Oddjob 1.2 is out.

What New

The important stuff has been blogged about already, here’s where:

• Improved Designer User Interface here and here.
• Property improvements in Oddjob here.
• JMX enhancements here.

The release notes (README.txt) cover the detail. Many of the changes in 1.2 only apply to the writers of Oddjob jobs and services – so, erm, that’s probably just me then! One such feature is synthetic annotations – this is the ability to use the job meta-data found in the arooa.xml to provide annotation information. So instead of:

	@Destroy
	public void goodbye() {
		System.out.println("You never loved me!");
	}

Which introduces a dependency on the Oddjob jar into the job, you can have:

<arooa:descriptor xmlns:arooa="http://rgordon.co.uk/oddjob/arooa">
  <components>
    <arooa:bean-def element="my-component"
      className="org.oddjob.devguide.DestroyByMagic">
      <annotations>
        <arooa:annotation name="org.oddjob.arooa.life.Destroy"
          method="goodbye" />
      </annotations>
    </arooa:bean-def>
  </components>
</arooa:descriptor>

Which doesn’t.

One final feature worth mentioning is that Oddjob’s Input Job now also supports a file chooser:

I hope you enjoy using Oddjob 1.2. Any question or bugs the please use the Sourceforge forum.