The AppFuse Team is pleased to announce the first milestone release of AppFuse 2.1. This release includes upgrades to all dependencies to bring them up-to-date with their latest releases. Most notable are Hibernate<http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/upgrading_hibernate_to_3_4>, Spring <http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/moving_from_spring_s_xml> and Tapestry 5.
Archetypes <http://static.appfuse.org/archetypes.html> now include all the source for the web modules so using jetty:run and your IDE will work much smoother now. The backend is still embedded in JARs, enabling you to choose with persistence framework (Hibernate, iBATIS or JPA) you'd like to use. If you want to modify the source for that, add the core classes to your project<http://appfuse.org/display/APF/AppFuse+Core+Classes>or run "appfuse:full-source". In addition, AppFuse Light has been converted to Maven<http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/appfuse_light_converted_to_maven>and has archetypes available too. AppFuse provides archetypes for JSF, Spring MVC, Struts 2 and Tapestry 5. The *light* archetypes are available for these frameworks, as well as for Spring MVC + FreeMarker, Stripes and Wicket. Other notable improvements: - Added Compass support <http://issues.appfuse.org/browse/APF-267> thanks to a patch from Shay Banon <http://www.kimchy.org/>. - Upgraded from XFire to CXF <http://issues.appfuse.org/browse/APF-1125>for Web Services. - Moved Maven repository to Sonatype's OSS Repository Hosting<https://docs.sonatype.com/display/NX/OSS+Repository+Hosting>for snapshots and releasing to Maven Central. There are no longer any AppFuse-specific artifacts, all are available in central. Thanks to Sonatype <http://sonatype.com/> for this great service and its excellent repository manager<http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/nexus_is_a_kick_ass> . - Upgraded to Canoo WebTest 3.0. *Now if we could just get its Maven Plugin<http://people.apache.org/%7Esgoeschl/download/maven-plugins/webtest-maven-plugin/site/index.html>moved to Codehaus. * - Added Ajaxified Body <http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/ajaxified_body>to AppFuse Light archetypes. - Infrastructure upgrades, including JIRA 4 <http://issues.appfuse.org/>, Confluence 3 <http://appfuse.org/>, FishEye 2<http://source.appfuse.org/>, Bamboo 2 <http://builds.appfuse.org/> and Crowd 1.6<http://login.appfuse.org/>. Many thanks to Atlassian <http://www.atlassian.com/c/NPOS/10160> and Contegix <http://contegix.com/> for their excellent products and services. - For more details on specific changes see the release notes<http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Release+Notes+2.1.0+M1> . Please note that this release does not contain updates to the documentation. Code generation will work, but it's likely that some content in the tutorials <http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Tutorials> won't match. For example, you can use annotations (vs. XML) for dependency injection and Tapestry is a whole new framework. I'll be working on documentation over the next several weeks in preparation for Milestone 2. AppFuse is available as several Maven archetypes. For information on creating a new project, please see the QuickStart Guide<http://appfuse.org/display/APF/AppFuse+QuickStart>. The 2.x 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+ If you find bugs, please create an issue in JIRA<http://issues.appfuse.org/secure/CreateIssue%21default.jspa> . Thanks to everyone for their help contributing code, writing documentation, posting to the mailing lists, and logging issues. Cheers, Matt P.S. Also posted to AppFuse News<http://appfuse.org/display/APF/2009/11/19/AppFuse+2.1.0+Milestone+1+Released>and my blog <http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/appfuse_2_1_milestone_1>.
