Hello everyone, I have been feature complete since last week for the
alpha release. So I want to start the vote for the Ext-Scripting Alpha 1.
Feature summary:
The planned Spring part will not make it into the official 1.0 release
since works on dependency injection frameworks which can provide beans
over the EL will become integral part post 1.0 (my plan is to also go
the CDI route if the frameworks permit it),the spring reloading it will
be merged over time, but will not be part of the official 1.0.
So for now 1.0 will only support JSF and JSF only, but that extensively.
Since I am feature complete and relatively bugfree all the work from now
on will go into bugfixing and code cleanup (believe me some parts really
need that)
Here is a short compressed summary of what will go into the alpha 1.0
and later final version:
Dynamic loading of all JSF 1.2 artifacts, including Application and
Session scoped beans (lots of work went into this area to enable that)
Dynamic loading of most JSF 2.0 artifacts (application events currently
are not supported)
Dynamic JSF2 annotation support (aka push annoations into existing
classes move them around as you wish)
Dynamic resource loading within JSF2 (aka load resources from your
source path)
Dynamic XHTML loading for Facelets (load your xhtml templates directly
from your sourcepath)
And all of this for Groovy and Java
The documentation will be hosted on the Wiki for the time being and is a
work in progress, but enough material already is there to justify an
alpha release as well:
http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Extensions/Scripting
As I said, feature freeze for now, and all which will go into the alphas
and betas will be code cleanup and bugfixes to get a 1.0 release out
sometime around March.
Werner
