Release v2.3.0 · seedstack/seed

[new] Full compatibility with Java 8.
[new] Interface LifecycleListener provides the ability to execute code upon application startup and shutdown.
[new] Global facade (class Seed) for kernel creation and disposal.
[new] Auto-configuration of Logback when it is in use and no logback.xml file exists.
[new] Best-effort to detect console color output in various runtime environments.
[new] Ability to print a custom banner upon startup by providing a banner.txt file in the default package.
[chg] Update to official Guice 4.0 (not using Sisu-Guice anymore).
[chg] Improve log traces on startup errors.
[chg] Better default log format.
[chg] Update parent pom to 2.4.0
[chg] Update commons-configuration to 1.10.
[chg] Update commons-cli to 1.3.1.
[chg] Update shiro to 1.2.4.
[chg] Update undertow to 1.3.19.Final.
[chg] Update jodd to 3.6.6.
[chg] Update metrics to 3.1.2.
[chg] Update jersey1 to 1.19.1.
[chg] Update jersey2 to 2.22.2.
[fix] Correctly injects @Logging-annotated inherited loggers.

Web

[new] Fully-injectable and interceptable servlets, filters and listeners.
[new] Full compatibility with asynchronous servlets and filters.
[new] Ability to programatically register servlets, filters and listeners.
[chg] WebSocket support, previously in seed-web-websocket module is merged into seed-web-core module.
[brk] Compatibility with Servlet 2.5 is dropped.
[brk] Custom Servlet annotations (@WebServlet, @WebFilter and @WebListener) are dropped in favor or standard ones.

[new] Full support for JAX-RS 2 asynchronous resources.
[new] Detection of BeanParam classes in HAL scanner.
[chg] Automatically prepends the servlet context path to generated HAL links.