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The current version is 1.0.18 (Changelog) The download comes with full source, javadoc and compiled classes. You can also recompile all classes from scratch (there are no external dependencies).

Installing/Running

Molly can be used for standalone java programs or in a web-server/servlet environment. After downloading the molly package, you just have to make sure that either molly.jar or the compiled classes (unjar'ed) are in your classpath. There are several possibilites (unix examples shown):

For Standalone programs:
You can install molly in a location outside of your webserver. 
    unix> export CLASSSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/path/to/molly.jar
    unix> java fc.jdbc.dbo.Generate
Alternately, you can specify the classpath to the java interpreter: 
    unix> java -cp $CLASSPATH:/path/to/molly.jar java fc.jdbc.dbo.Generate
For Web Applications:
You can also install molly.jar directly in your web server's WEB-INF/lib directory. (See this for more details).

The webserver will automatically add this to it's java classpath. To run programs from the command line, you would say: 

    unix> export  CLASSSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/my/website/WEB-INF/lib/molly.jar
    unix> java fc.io.HexOutputStream
Alternately, you can specify the classpath to the java interpreter: 
    unix> java -cp CLASSSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/my/website/WEB-INF/lib/molly.jar java fc.io.HexOutputStream

Changelog

1.0.18
  1. Misc. tweaks and improvements to the DBO framework.
  2. Bug fix: When creating a new DBO object and saving it as a forced update (via the update method), the primary key parameters specified to the update method are used, rather than using the original primary key(s) (which are now only used internally for updates of objects retrieved from the database).
1.0.17
  1. Added a NamedParamStatement class. This makes it easier to work with JDBC PreparedStatements, instead of using ? and integer indexes, one can use named parameters instead. For example: 
    String query = "select * from foo where bar = @bar and baz = @baz";
NamedParamStatement ps = NamedParamStatement.get(con, query);
ps.setString("bar", "hello");
ps.setInt("baz", 42);
    This is quite useful for larger, complicated queries with lots of parameters.

  2. Misc. improvements in in the DBO generate code that make it easier to use when using table aliases (using the SQL "AS" keyword).

    For example, see columns(String) and getFromRS(ResultSet, prefix)

1.0.16
  1. Fixed a bug in the DBO generate code that would cause an error when updating a row after modifying it's primary key(s). For example, consider the following table:
    create table users (username varchar(255) primary key, age integer);
    Now, we use DBO, generate our java objects and say:
    users u = usersMgr.getByKey("molly");
    u.set_username("case");
    u.set_age(22);
    usersMgr.save(con, u);
    This would internally create & use a SQL update statement that would look something like:
    UPDATE users set username = 'case', age = '22' where username = 'case';
    We update a row using the primary key but we are changing the primary key itself, which means we can no longer find the original row to update.

    This problem is fixed now, by having the generated DBO object internally save the original values of all primary keys. These original values are then used when updating the row. In this example, that would now look like:

    UPDATE users set username = 'case', age = '22' where username = 'molly';

    Dunno how this elementary bug managed to slip through, undetected for so many years. Primary keys are not changed that often, I guess. Just goes to show that no complex piece of software is ever completely bug free.

  2. Fixed another bug in DBO. If setters were generated for SERIAL/auto-increment types, and values were manually entered for those types, then those fields were not saved to the database.
1.0.15
  1. Added a CommentedFileReader class that helps read files, ignoring any comments and whitespace.

    With the existence of CommentedFileReader, FilePropertyMgr, IOUtil, StringUtil and Template, using property & configuration files is easy.

1.0.14
  1. Added a QueryReader class that helps organize your queries in a text file, external to your program. This makes maintainence a lot easier.
  2. Note: We skipped version 1.0.13 for good luck
1.0.12
  1. Previously, when saving a new DBO object, if a particular field was not-nullable in the database, it had to be set in the DBO object before the object could be successfully saved/updated. Now, it does not have to be set in the object, if the database also defines a default column value for that non-nullable column.
  2. Many misc. tweaks & changes
1.0.11
  1. Fixed a bug in the DBO-generated manager class, where if an autoincrement/serial column was not the first column in a table, then saving a corresponding object would fail (when retrieving the new auto increment value).
1.0.10
  1. Various little documentation fixes.
  2. The problem with the command java fc.jdbc.dbo.Generate not printing its usage/help file has been solved. It wasn't a bug with the Java classloader as previously thought. It was the fact that the help file was missing from the published jar file (yeah, I know !)
  3. JDBCSession has been improved to not use static methods. I like using static utility classes (as opposed to singletons) because they are simple. But if the utility class needs to be initialized (once) before being used, then, we have to remember to call the static initializer, which is easy to forget. So instead of saying:
    JDBCSession.init(..);
JDBCSession.someMethod(..);
    we now say:
    JDBCSession session = JDBCSession.getInstance(); //does init if needed
session.someMethod();
  4. Added a cookbook link on the website, concurrently with this release.
  5. A special thanks to Menelaos Perdikeas of Semantix Information Technologies, for helping report and diagnose various issues.
1.0.9
  1. This version compiles and runs under JDK 1.6. The only change from the previous version was some additional JDBC4 specific method signatures, required for JDK 1.6 were added. Consequently, this version will not run under JDK 1.5 and requires JDK 1.6 or greater.
1.0.8
  1. The configuration file for the DBO Generator accepts both prefix and suffix * wildcards for table names to exclude. (previously, a wildcard could only be applied to the include tables). Added Clarifications to the include/exclude functionality in the configuration file.

    There is a problem with the command java fc.jdbc.dbo.Generate not printing its usage/help file (due to a java bug with the classloader not being able to load a resource from within a .jar). These usage/help instructions have now been added to the javadoc as well to get around this problem.

    I recently pointed the DBO Generator towards a real 400+ table enterprise production database with all sorts of columns, tables and relationships. The generator ran flawlessly and took about 30 seconds to generate and write 800+ classes (2 per table). So the Generator itself is super fast (perhaps the fastest O/R in Java) and does work very nicely.

  2. The fc.util.Watch class can now return elapsed time in seconds (in addition to milliseconds) which makes for more user friendly output.
1.0.7
  1. Added the ability to use a thread local java.util.Random to WebApp
1.0.6
  1. Modified GzipFileServlet so the paths of included files are relative to the document root (as opposed to web app context as earlier). It is more intuitive for absolute paths to be relative to the document root.
  2. Added more methods to the Page interface and improved the javadocs for both Page and PageImpl.
  3. Added a new Table class.
1.0.5
  1. Fixed a major bug in the PageMgr page reloading algorithm. This bug caused the page class to be discarded and reloaded as if the page had been modified, even when it hadn't. This caused the static fields in the page to be reinitialized at every page access, instead of when the page source was modified.

    All molly page users should immediately upgrade to this release.

1.0.4
  1. Fixed a minor bug which caused the PageMgr to throw an exception when the webapp was restarted.
1.0.3
  1. The configuration file for the DBO Generator accepts both prefix and suffix * wildcards for table names to include. (previously, a wildcard could only be either a suffix or a prefix but not both).
1.0.2
  1. Page forwards can now contain expressions. (Earlier, only Page includes could contain expressions)
  2. Misc. javadoc clarifications.
1.0.1
  1. Added GzipFileServlet. This allows serving of compressed html/js; this speeds things up considerably when downloading javascript libraries
1.0
  1. Initial public release.