We're proud to announce the release of version 1.2 of JSchnizzle.

Highlights of version 1.2 include:

In November 2010, I was getting frustrated with the dependency JSchnizzle has on the free yUML rendering service. It appears that the yUML service is having increasing performance problems as time goes on. Additionally, there were a number of outages towards the end of the year that came when I really needed the service to be available. I wondered, "How difficult would it be to do the renderings locally?"

We're proud to announce the release of version 1.1 of JSchnizzle.

Over the past several months, Alternate Computing Solutions Inc. has used JSchnizzle to help produce UML diagrams for several of our projects. During that time, we discovered a few usability issues and a couple minor bugs with the previous release. Version 1.1 of JSchnizzle addresses these issues.

Alternate Computing Solutions is making JSchnizzle available under the under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

I came across Adam Goucher's blog entry and his discussion of using Jython to execute JUnit tests. I have been experimenting with doing the opposite: Running Jython scripts from JUnit tests. It was a fun exercise, and it was enlightening to see that I could rewrite a 222 line JUnit test as an 87 line Jython script.

Here's what I did: