Overview

OSUser2 is a refactoring of OSUser by some Atlassian developers (mostly [mike] at the moment) to make OSUser more friendly to development techniques that have evolved in the last year, including:

• test driven development - the original OSUser is near impossible to use in unit tests
• interface / implementation separation - OSUser's original architecture uses too many concrete classes (final ones at that!). We're adding a lot of interfaces to make things more pluggable
• configuration loading - the private static construction of OSUser with a fixed configuration file (osuser.xml) is not flexible

You can see the progress in the CVS sandbox under the osuser2 directory.

Known incompatilibities

I'll try to flag a list of known incompatibilities here as they come up. This list is by no means guaranteed to be complete

• UserManager.getInstance() is no longer the way to get a UserManager instance, as UserManager is now an interface!