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I just gave this version a dry run on one of my testing machines here, and it still suffers from the same problems that all of the previous pre-releases of Sunrise have suffered from... Java out of memory errors about 5 minutes into a fairly lengthy fetch.

It also is missing a lot of things that even early JPluck releases had as part of the base functionality. Granted, these are betas, but the basic functionality that is covered by its predecessor, JPluck, and the items supported by the Plucker document format, should exist.

Many of these useful options that exist in JPluck and were removed from Sunrise are in the FAQ, but it doesn't make sense to cripple the Plucker output for no apparent reason. Here's a few I just found:

1. All valid links are colored blue by default, invalid links are red by default. You can't customize these colors, or remove them entirely (by setting them both to black, for example)
2. No way to run Sunrise with optimized Java settings. The settings it uses by default are very braindead, and will consistently run out of memory on large documents with 1,000 or more links. This is 100% reproducable, and has been reported several times before.
3. No way to specify the Title or Author of the document
4. Can't set the Referer
5. Can't add UserAgent values to be used for the current or future document
6. Can't set Beam, Launchable, Backup bits on the output document (without having to add those with third-party tools at a later time)
7. No alternate images (major crippling functionality, especially for Plucker-base photo albums)
8. No way to increase the verbosity of the fetch session in orders of magnitude (1, 2, 3, and so on)
9. Logging is global, not per-document
10. No support for tables or setting bookmarks at fetch time
11. Only runs on Windows (JPluck ran on any machine that could run Java)

And now the bugs:

1. Sunrise crashes quite often when trying to add exclusions, wildcards, and regex limits to any document.
2. The fetch progress doesn't autoscroll the window. For large fetches, this is important, so you don't have to keep clicking the scrollbar to keep up with the fetch (yes, this is more of a feature-request than a bug)
3. Runs out of memory VERY fast on even moderately-large documents. Without the ability to create multi-megabyte files, it limits the functionality to "feeds" and short news sites.

Overall, its looking good, but it can't even remotely compare to the features, speed, capabilities, and functionality of his previous project, JPluck.

Take this with a grain, because I'm super-critical of most things, but this isn't the bees-knees or a replacement for JPluck. Laurens does great work, and his updates come out fast and furious.. I just wish that the existing JPluck users had something they could use that was better. This definately isn't it.