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title: Apache OFBiz News - July 2019
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date: '2019-09-02 06:58:03 -0400'
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<h2>Apache OFBiz News July 2019</h2>
<p>Welcome to our regular monthly round-up of OFBiz news. This month we have news about Apache OFBiz and Apache Camel integration along with our usual list of features, improvements and Statistics.</p>
<h2>Apache OFBiz and Camel integration<br /></h2>
<p>The community has decided to include OFBiz and Camel integration in the official OFBiz plugins.<br />Thank you Bilgin Ibryam for your contribution and Girish Vasmatkar for further working on it and to everyone who participated in the discussion.<br />The email communication can be found <a href="https://s.apache.org/5y2l7">here</a> and the progress of this effort can be tracked at <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11147">OFBIZ-11147</a>. </p>
<h2><span style="letter-spacing: -0.018em;">OFBiz Statistics</span></h2>
<p>Apache Kibble tracks some Apache OFBiz community statistics on its demo instance, so we have highlighted a few of our stats for the last month:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>JIRA Issue Tracker:</strong> 14 issues were opened and 23 issues were closed (6 different people helped to close these issues)</li>
<li><strong>Code Change and Commit Activity:</strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>Framework: </strong>69 commits to the code base that changed 29,306 lines of code (5 committers were active)</li>
<li><strong>Plugins: </strong>12 commits to the code base that changed 76,978 lines of code (3 committers were active)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Mailing Lists:</strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>Dev: </strong>50 emails sent and 13 topics discussed (15 different people)</li>
<li><strong>User: </strong>105 emails sent and 37 topics discussed (41 different people)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>New features and improvements</h2>
<p>Functional enhancements and improvements as well as updates of third party libraries and source code refactoring:</p>
<h3>Framework</h3>
<ul>
<li>Makes "FormRenderer#getUsedFields" more generic (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11135">OFBIZ-11135</a>)</li>
<li>Rewrites "Start#determineCommandType" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11137">OFBIZ-11137</a>)</li>
<li>Avoids confusing indirections in "StartupControlPanel#start" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11137">OFBIZ-11137</a>)</li>
<li>Removes support for &ldquo;ofbiz-containers.xml&rdquo; (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11100">OFBIZ-11100</a>)</li>
<li>Deprecates "ContainerConfig#getConfiguration(String, String)" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11100">OFBIZ-11100</a>)</li>
<li>Inlines "filterContainersHavingMatchingLoaders" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11100">OFBIZ-11100</a>)</li>
<li>Access configurations inside "loadContainersFromConfigurations" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11100">OFBIZ-11100</a>)</li>
<li>Passes directly the loaders to "loadContainersFromConfigurations" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11100">OFBIZ-11100</a>)</li>
<li>Moves "AdminServer" inside a container (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11136">OFBIZ-11136</a>)</li>
<li>Removes unnecessary dependency on "junit-dep" artifact (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11139">OFBIZ-11139</a>)</li>
<li>Upgrades Hamcrest library to version 2.1 (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11139">OFBIZ-11139</a>)</li>
<li>Inlines an "UtilHttp#getPathInfoOnlyParameterMap" overload (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Adds unit tests for "UtilHttp#getPathInfoOnlyParameterMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Refactors "UtilHttp#getPathInfoOnlyParameterMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Removes unused "UtilHttp#getParameterMap" overload (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Adds unit tests for "UtilHttp#getParameterMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Refactors "UtilHttp#getParameterMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Uses a predicate in "UtilHttp#getPathInfoOnlyParameterMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Uses a predicate in "UtilHttp#getParameterMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Removes unused "UtilHttp#checkURLforSpiders" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Removes useless "UtilHttp#parametersToAttributes" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Uses "HttpServletRequest#getParameterMap" when possible (<a href="https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&amp;revision=1863404">r1863404</a>)</li>
<li>Adds unit tests for "UtilHttp#makeParamValueFromComposite" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Refactors "UtilHttp#makeParamValueFromComposite" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Adds unit tests for "UtilHttp#makeParamListWithSuffix" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Refactors "Makeparamlistwithsuffix" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11138">OFBIZ-11138</a>)</li>
<li>Removes "UtilMisc#toList" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11140">OFBIZ-11140</a>) </li>
<li>Removes useless "UtilObject#equalsHelper" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11140">OFBIZ-11140</a>)</li>
<li>Removes useless "UtilObject#getBytes" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11140">OFBIZ-11140</a>) </li>
<li>Removes useless "UtilObject#compareToHelper" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11140">OFBIZ-11140</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkCollectionCast" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Adds unit tests for "UtilGenerics#checkCollectionCast" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkStack(Object)" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Makes "UtilGenerics#checkCollection(Object, Class)" more generic (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>)</li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkCollectionContainment" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Rewrites "UtilGenerics#checkMap" to do a simple cast (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Removes useless "UtilGenerics#toMap" overloads (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Rewrites "UtilGenerics#toList" and "UtilGenerics#toMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#toMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#toList" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkSet" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkList" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkCollection(Object)" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Uses "java.util.Base64" instead of org.apache.ofbiz.base.util.Base64 (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11142">OFBIZ-11142</a>)</li>
<li>Uses "StandardCharsets.UTF_8" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11142">OFBIZ-11142</a>) </li>
<li>Removes useless imports (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11142">OFBIZ-11142</a>) </li>
<li>Limits selectable glAccounts in findGlAccountReconciliation(s) to associated glAccounts (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10841">OFBIZ-10841</a>)</li>
<li>Adds licence information for EntityJsonReader (<a href="https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&amp;revision=1863956">r1863956</a>)</li>
<li>Improves alignment of Status, OrderDate and PartyId column header on Find Orders page (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11116">OFBIZ-11116</a>)</li>
<li>Checks embedded Javascript libs vulnerabilities using retire.js (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10678">OFBIZ-10678</a>)</li>
<li>Improves ShoppingCartEvents (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11127">OFBIZ-11127</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li>Navigates from a domain to another with automated signed in authentication (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10307">OFBIZ-10307</a>)</li>
<li>Undoes use of "UtilMisc#toList" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11140">OFBIZ-11140</a>) </li>
<li>Uses "UtilGenerics#checkCollection" when possible (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkSet" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkMap" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Inlines "UtilGenerics#checkList" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11141">OFBIZ-11141</a>) </li>
<li>Checks embedded Javascript libs vulnerabilities using retire.js (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10678">OFBIZ-10678</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Bugfixes</h2>
<p>Functional and technical bugfixes:</p>
<h3>Framework</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixes: Error message is displayed after log in ecommerce if userlogin includes spaces (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10671">OFBIZ-10671</a>)</li>
<li>Fixes: Unknown request [images]; this request does not exist or cannot be called directly. (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10895">OFBIZ-10895</a>)</li>
<li>Fixes: EntityCondition(EntityOperator, fields...) raise exception with a null value (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11143">OFBIZ-11143</a>)</li>
<li>Reverts: Resolves build.gradle warnings (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-11133">OFBIZ-11133</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixes: Error message is displayed after log in ecommerce if userlogin includes spaces (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10671">OFBIZ-10671</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Documentation</h2>
<ul>
<li>Adds a missing new line in main README.adoc in order to get the 2 bullets of "Manual setting" section correctly (<a href="https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&amp;revision=1862461">r1862461</a>)</li>
</ul>