The final 1.1 release of the HiveMind services and configuration
microkernel has been released.
HiveMind is an inversion-of-control container that mixes in a powerful
approach to modularization and configuration. It is ideally suited for
building richly extensible frameworks. Tapestry 4.0 is built on
HiveMind. HiveMind overlaps in functionality with the very popular
Spring framework, but offers a significant number of its own wrinkles
... and integrates very cleanly with Spring.
Release 1.1 offers a significant number of improvements over 1.0. A
few highlights:
* Services and configurations may now be private to a module, and
not directly accessible from other modules.
* Lightweight initialization allows properties of an object
instance to be configured without having to make the object a
full-fledged service.
* The locale is now tracked on a per-thread basis, and may be
changed at any time.
* Services may now be defined in terms of a Java class, not a Java
interface.
* Groovy may be used, instead of XML, to define services and configurations.
* Modules may define a package; class names appearing in the XML
may omit that package.
* Streamlined XML with much smarter defaults for many attributes.
* Support for AOP Alliance style method interception.
* Services may now be exposed via JMX for remote control, and to
monitor performance.
* Much improved auto-wiring of services implementations, including
automatic dependency injection via constructor parameters.
* Support for building services around the Gang Of Four Strategy
and Chain of Command patterns.
* Configurations data may now be injected as a Map rather than a
List, by defining the attribute used as a key.
* Conditional contribution, controlled by the presence (or
absence) of classes, or JVM system properties.
* Service proxies may now be serialized and deserialized.
* HiveDoc has been improved, both in content and in presentation.
Full details are available in the change log.
Download HiveMind from
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_hivemind.cgi
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Howard M. Lewis Ship
Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant
Creator, Jakarta Tapestry
Creator, Jakarta HiveMind
Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support
and project work. http://howardlewisship.com
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