[Bluej-discuss] BlueJ 2.2.0 feature preview release

[Bruce Quig]

Dear BlueJ Users,

The BlueJ Team is pleased to announce the availability of a feature  
preview release of BlueJ 2.2.0.

The main new feature that we have planned for version 2.2.0 is the  
addition of teamwork support. It supports team programming by adding  
version control functionality, allowing students to work in teams on  
projects where their projects can be stored in a central repository.  
The initial version supports team projects using CVS as the version  
control system.

This initial feature preview has been released to allow interested  
users to get a preview of the additional functionality that version  
2.2.0 will possess, and to provide feedback on functionality and  
possible problems in a wide variety of software infrastructures.

Whilst all BlueJ users are welcome to download and try out this  
preview version. the target audience is teachers and other users who  
have an interest in these new features specifically. To make use of  
the teamwork features it will be necessary to have access to a  
suitably configured CVS repository. We encourage and appreciate  
feedback on the features provided.

Students who are currently using BlueJ in their studies should  
continue to use the stable release 2.1.3 as their preferred version.

The preview release can be downloaded from:

http://www.bluej.org/download/files/bluejsetup-220preview.exe    
(Windows)
http://www.bluej.org/download/files/bluej-220preview.jar               
(Unix/Linux)
http://www.bluej.org/download/files/BlueJ-220preview.zip             
(Mac)

There is also some basic documentation to get started. These are  
fairly brief guides aimed at those with some prior version control   
experience. For the final release we will extend these further to be  
more suitable to students and other end users.

The two documents are :

Quick howto/tutorial of the main features:
http://www.bluej.org/download/files/teamwork-tutorial.pdf

A guide to setting up cvs repositories, both single user and for  
group repositories:
http://www.bluej.org/download/files/repository-setup.pdf

Regards,

Bruce Quig, on behalf of the BlueJ Team.