Speaking Of ELJ

This week was a big release week for us.  With new versions of EditLive! for Java, EditLive! for XML and EditLive! for Windows all going out.  My main focus has been on EditLive! for Java’s release and it was pretty huge.  There’s a lot of things in there that we’d been wanting to do for a long time but couldn’t because of limitations in the Swing text components.  We’ve now replaced so much of the standard Swing text code that they’re possible.  Stuff like spell checking as you type, inline image and table resizing and a much better selection model just makes life for users so much easier.

I’ve mentioned before that I was excited about this release because of all the cool stuff it had in it.  One thing I wasn’t expecting to have achieved for this release is the level of automated testing that we’ve now got in place.  Automating tests for text editors is really hard so it’s nice to have made some headway with our testing and over time we can continue to build on the testing foundations we’ve set down.