Dear Struts Community, ObjectVenture is pleased to announce the release of ObjectAssembler 2.0, a visual two-way development environment for J2EE applications - including native support for Struts 1.1. Thanks to all of you who participated in our open beta!
The standard edition, which covers web (JSP/Servlets) and Struts development, is FREE! You may download it here: http://www.objectventure.com/products/objectassembler.html The new user manual is available here (4.5 MB). It includes information on how to get started with the Struts support. http://www.objectventure.com/files/oa/ObjectAssembler-UserManual.pdf We also have a new support forum here: http://support.objectventure.net ===================== NEW FEATURES IN v2.0: Standard Edition: (*) Complete Struts 1.1 support, including multiple configuration files. (*) Import existing Struts configuration files and components. (*) In addition to JBuilder, ObjectAssembler now integrates with Netbeans and Sun ONE Studio. (*) New standalone version that is built on Netbeans. (*) Complete Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 support for visually building components and WARs. (*) New component types: Struts PlugIn, Struts DynaActionForm, Servlet Filter, and Servlet Lifecycle Event. (*) Drop any TLD in a certain place (see user manual), and ObjectAssembler will automate and validate the use of its tags in the visual JSP editor. (*) Create relationships between components. (*) New User Manual (*) And more... Professional Edition: - All Standard Edition features, plus (*) Complete EJB 2.0 support for visually building components and EJB JARs. (*) Complete J2EE 1.3 support for visually building EARs (*) New component type: Message-driven Bean. (*) Integrated deployment to Weblogic 7.x and HPAS 8.x. More to come! (*) And more... Enterprise Edition: - All Professional Edition features, plus (*) New visual pattern development environment based on XML that supports the open Pattern and Component Markup Language (PCML) effort. (*) Integrated Sun Java Center pattern catalog. (*) Import and export pattern catalog archives (CARs). (*) Real-time HTML documentation of catalogs, patterns, and strategies as you work via XSLT (ships with default templates that you can change). (*) Apply pattern strategies to components. (*) Automated code generation from patterns. (*) See how your applied pattern strategies are mapped to your components. (*) Real-time validation of patterns and applied pattern strategies. (*) And more... ===================== Other features of interest: (*) Visual JSP development (*) Automated component and assembly (EAR, EJB-JAR, JAR, and WAR) generation with automated handling of accessory files. (*) Work with your components visually or via the source code editor after generation and the two stay in synch. No black boxes here... (*) Automated placement of all generated components in the appropriate assemblies (including the default struts configuration). (*) Import components, including EJBs from a database schema. (*) Real-time validation of all components and assemblies as you work, including automated corrective actions where appropriate. (*) And much more... ===================== We hope you will take ObjectAssembler for a spin and let us know what you think. And please stay tuned for some exciting new features and products we have on the way. Best Regards, The ObjectAssembler Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
