The AppFuse Team is pleased to announce the release of AppFuse 2.0! The road to AppFuse 2.0 has been a long journey through Mavenland, annotations and generics. We're pleased to announce that we're finally finished after 13 months of development. Thanks to all the developers, contributors and users for helping test, polish and prove that AppFuse 2 is an excellent solution for developing Java-based applications. Your time, patience and usage of AppFuse has made it the strong foundation it is today.
This release contains a number of bug fixes for AMP, an upgrade to Tapestry 4.1.3, the addition of Tacos, support for Oracle and changes to prevent XSS attacks. AppFuse 2.0 is available as a Maven archetype. For information on creating a new project using AppFuse, please see the QuickStart Guide<http://appfuse.org/display/APF/AppFuse+QuickStart>or the demos and videos <http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Demos+and+Videos>. If you've used AppFuse 1.x, but not 2.x, you'll want to read the FAQ<http://appfuse.org/display/APF/FAQ>. Join the user mailing list <http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Mailing+Lists> if you have any questions. The Maven Reference Guide<http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Maven+2>has a map of Ant -> Maven commands. Maven for Newbies <http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Maven+for+Newbies> might also be useful if you've never used Maven before. There is some support for Ant<http://appfuse.org/display/APF/FAQ#FAQ-usingant>in this release. For more information, please see the 2.0 Release Notes<http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Release+Notes+2.0>. The 2.0 series of AppFuse has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions: - Java Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 (2.1 for JSF) - Java 5+ New features in AppFuse 2.0 include: - Maven 2 Integration - Upgraded WebWork to Struts 2 - JDK 5, Annotations, JSP 2.0, Servlet 2.4 - JPA Support - Generic CRUD backend - Full Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans support - Fast startup and no deploy with Maven Jetty Plugin - Testable on multiple appservers and databases with Cargo and profiles We appreciate the time and effort everyone has put toward contributing code and documentation, posting to the mailing lists, and logging issues. Thanks for using AppFuse - we hope you enjoy the new version! Matt -- http://raibledesigns.com
