DreamBeans® Release Notes
DreamBeans version 1.2.2518
(Sat Apr 19 2008)
Note: This is a beta (pre-release) version of
DreamBeans®. Even though a beta release has some
serious bugs, it is of higher quality than previous releases. Therefore, only
the latest versions are available for download.
Supported platforms: Windows and Linux
x86.
Due to limited resources, the "IDE" portion of DreamBeans® is only tested on
Windows XP and Linux x86. (using both Tomcat and Resin webservers).
All Platforms:
- Some PC graphics chips are not compatible with Java. Because
DreamBeans® is written in Java, the DreamBeans® IDE sometimes
display corrupted looking icons, icons from other
programs, and text that turns invisible as you type it. You fix this by
right-clicking on your Windows PC desktop to open the display properties. Under
the "Advanced" settings, you can turn off the graphics acceleration.
Windows:
- Sun JDK Bug ID 4533865 reports that
java.io.File.exits() will indicate a file does not exist, when it does exist but
Windows has not relinquished the lock yet. When the compiler generates a
.class file, but the lock has not been released yet, the
class loader can't load the generated class. When this happens (rarely),
DreamBeans reports that the class can not be loaded
and quits. In this case, restart DreamBeans. Sun has no plans to fix this, as
they believe it's Windows API problem. Konsensys has a partial work-around that
makes the problem a fairly rare occurrence now.
Linux x86:
- The "preview" feature requires that you have 1.7 or later version of
the Mozilla browser installed. Further, the PATH to Mozilla must be before
the path to any other instances of Mozilla. For example, Red Hat Linux puts
the Mozilla binary in /usr/bin. Either delete that version or put
/usr/local/mozilla in path before /usr/bin. This is required for loading
the related gtk libraries.
- On some versions of Red Hat Linux, DreamBeans sometimes hangs
when displaying the "splash screen" when staring up. It has not been
determined yet if this is a bug in the Java native threads of versions of
Linux using the 2.4 kernel (latest is 2.6) or a bug in some particular
versions of Java.
Solaris (both x86 and SPARC)
- The "preview" feature requires that you have 1.7 or later version of
the Mozilla browser installed. Further, the PATH to Mozilla must be before
the path to any other instances of Mozilla. This is required for loading
the related libraries.
Other platforms:
- The "preview" feature is currently
only available on Windows, MacOS, Linux x86, Solaris x86, and Solaris sparc.
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