Druid, The Database Manager News

Hi All.

Here is another druid release. This one (3.4) is mainly focused
toward DB designing and reverse engineering. Users should feel
a bit more comfortable with this release because some improvements
regard usability. Beyond the architectural changes, this is what
users will immediatly see:

- New account manager and powerfull url creator (JDBC)
- New supervisor thread to monitor memory, serials etc...
- More options into the "Options" dialog
- New E/R print preview (very useful when choosing the print scale)
- Improved reverse engineering via JDBC (retrieved source sql code)
- New sql adapters for postgres, oracle, hsqldb
- New import and generation modules for torque
- New generation module for hibernate (half finished)
- Castor generation module totally rewritten and improved
- Used crimson for xml loading. Load speed has increased
- More docs

For a complete list of changes, see the changes.pdf file or go to
the home page -> changes link.

This release fixes also several bugs (17 to be exact). Many thanks to:
Doug Redd, Kymmx and Marc Schuepbach for their fixes.

Many thanks also go to Helmut Reichhold (copy row function in jdbc)
and to Antonio Petrelli (for the cayenne reverse-db module).

The cayenne module can be useful in some cases when the druid's
internal engine fails. To use it simply download,untar and copy it
(the jar) into the druid's modules directory.

The druid's home page now uses apache forrest to maintain the site.
It is still "work in progress" but I hope to finish it as soon as
possible. The home page will be kept updated with new coded stuff
(see the changes link).

Cheers,
Andrea