+1 on doing an alpha On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Werner Punz <werner.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
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