[Building Sakai] Spring 3.2 and Hibernate 3.6 upgrades (KNL-515 / KNL-517)

[Nguni Phakela]

I'm definitely excited about this. Great WORK!


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:05 AM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>wrote:

>  Great work Noah!
>
>
> On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 22:21 -0700, John Bush wrote:
>
> excellent work, hero status, looking forward to testing this out
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm pleased to note the completion of upgrades to Spring 3.2.1.RELEASE and
> > Hibernate 3.6.10.Final, and that preliminary testing has gone very well.
> >
> > But don't panic! This isn't in trunk yet; just standing by to be merged.
> >
> >
> > There are lots of details on the tickets [1][2], but the most important
> > thing is that there is very good backward compatibility. Most of the things
> > you would have done in code are unchanged.
> >
> > Two obvious exceptions (config, not really code) to these are the
> > dependencies declared (both libraries are now modular) and the universal use
> > of the "materialized_clob" datatype for long text data (a consistency
> > improvement, which maps a Java String to a CLOB / TEXT field, as was
> > previously accomplished with string types and length limits). All known
> > changes have been applied to all of the core, so you shouldn't have to worry
> > too much. All tests pass nicely. Contrib maintainers: it's pretty
> > straightforward for any given tool.
> >
> > There will be some more documentation about the specifics (say, some of the
> > constant or cache region changes), but this is ready for broad testing now.
> > Because nearly every module is touched, this upgrade is not in a set of
> > Subversion branches (way too much work). I am maintaining them on GitHub and
> > keeping a branch synchronized with trunk:
> >
> > https://github.com/botimer/sakai-cle/tree/spring-32
> >
> > I've done testing on MySQL and Oracle. Others (Sam, Aaron, Zach, Chris) have
> > been testing as well, and we have found no standing regressions. So, I will
> > put it to the TCC to think about the right time to apply these changes to
> > trunk. I am deliberately sharing this now, after 2.9.1 has settled, since I
> > think this is about the right time.
> >
> > I should also note that this was a big chunk of work, graciously sponsored
> > by Unicon.
> >
> > Comments, test results, and pull requests are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Noah
> >
> > [1] - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-515
> > [2] - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-517
> >
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