News

2003-02-22 - Growing Up release 0.4

The JDAI project is growing up... This means a number of things:

First of all, we have a new release:

• Better drag/drop support (e.g. multiple selected photos)
• New photo viewer in its own window with slideshow functionality (PgUp/PgDn for previous/next photo), including automatic slideshow
• Fullscreen viewing (toggle with F9)
  (Under Windows this is implemented as maximizing for now, due to problems with the fullscreen mode)
• Deletion of photos (careful!) with confirmation dialog

Other announcements:

A public mailing list has been created for general discussion regarding JDAI. Feel free to subscribe to the list and join in the discussions.

Work has begun on a manual for JDAI Explorer. The JDAI Web Interface is now also under development, but for now unreleased.

We have a new release, remember? Hurry down and get it!

2002-12-11 - We have moved to SourceForge

The project web pages and release files have been moved to SourceForge:

• www.jdai.dk now redirects to jdai.sourceforge.net
• sourceforge.net/projects/jdai contains the SourceForge site for the project

Thanks to SourceForge for this hosting!

For those interested in history: Older news

What is JDAI?

JDAI is a Java based infrastructure for digital photo albums. Multiple applications share a common back-end, and can be used in different scenarios. An explorer application for local access and administration is already available, and functionality for online albums using a Java web server (such as Apache Tomcat) is under development.

Please see the draft User Manual for more information.

JDAI is released under the GNU General Public License.

Software from other projects is bundled with JDAI:

• The zoomable photo display is implemented using the Piccolo Toolkit from the Human-Computer Interface Lab at the University of Maryland (License: Mozilla Public License)
• The nice look-and-feel is provided by the Kunststoff look-and-feel (License: LGPL)
• XML reading and writing is implemented using <dom4j> (License: Apache-like)

...couldn't have done it without'em.

Screenshots

	This is a screenshot of the new main application window in release 0.4.
	These two screenshots show the new viewer (release 0.4) and zooming in action.
	These two screenshots show the zooming in action. Also note the semi-transparent caption box added in release 0.3.
	This is a screenshot of the new preferences dialog in release 0.3.
	This is a screenshot of the first public release (Version 0.1) made July 26th 2002. This shows the main window in "View Mode".
	This is a screenshot of the first public release (Version 0.1) made July 26th 2002. This shows the main window in "Edit Mode".
	This early screenshot was made July 19th 2002 - before the first public release. It shows a relatively complete JDAI Explorer prototype.

Download

• Version 0.4 - The Growing Up Release
  Download binaries jdai-0.4.tar.gz or jdai-0.4.zip; choose this zip if in doubt!
  Download source jdai-0.4-src.tar.gz or jdai-0.4-src.zip
  NOTE: Java 1.4 or later is required!

• Version 0.3 - The Ready for Christmas Release
  Download binaries jdai-0.3.tar.gz or jdai-0.3.zip
  Download source jdai-0.3-src.tar.gz or jdai-0.3-src.zip
  NOTE: Java 1.4 or later is required!

• Version 0.2 - The Easy on the Features Release
  Download binaries jdai-0.2.tar.gz or jdai-0.2.zip
  Download source jdai-0.2-src.tar.gz or jdai-0.2-src.zip
  NOTE: Java 1.4 or later is required!

• Version 0.1 - The Maria's Ideas Made This Possible Release
  Download binaries jdai-0.1.tar.gz or jdai-0.1.zip
  Download source jdai-0.1-src.tar.gz or jdai-0.1-src.zip
  NOTE: Java 1.4 or later is required!

$Date: 2003/02/23 13:35:36 $