Ganymede developer's release 2a released

[Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>]

Ganymede developer pre-release 2a, dev2a.tar.gz, is now available from

 ftp://ftp.arlut.utexas.edu/pub/ganymede/

 or

 ftp://129.116.212.1/pub/ganymede/

if your client has trouble resolving a proper address for
ftp.arlut.utexas.edu.

This bugfix release takes care of a few important issues that arose
from the major changes we made in developer's release 2, and updates
the HTML templates to work with the final release of the Java Plug-In
(formerly Activator) that Javasoft released yesterday.

| RELEASE DATE: 1 May 1998
| 
| 1. [SERVER] Required Fields Not Checked For Deleted Objects.
| 
|  DBEditSet (the Ganymede transaction class) no longer checks required
| fields for objects that are being dropped or deleted.
| 
| 2. [HTML] HTML for Java Activator/Plug-In Updated for Plug-In 1.1 Release
| 
|  We have updated the HTML template for use with the Java Activator to
| work with the official release of the 1.1 Java Plug-In.
| 
| 3. [SERVER] Added GanymedeSession.enableOversight(boolean) Method
| 
|  It is now possible for server-side code to turn off required field
| checking and all wizard activity.  This is intended to be used
| by the offline bulk loader code.
| 
| 4. [CUSTOM] Updated nisonly, gash Loader Code
| 
|  Both the gash and nisonly loader code now uses enableOversight() to
| turn off wizards and required field checking during bulk loading.  The
| nisonly loader hadn't been recompiled since the delete bit was added
| to the PermEntry class, so the nisonly loader code as broken.

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