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20061020 Friday October 20, 2006

Equinox (a.k.a. AppFuse Light) 1.7 Released! This release's major new features are upgrading to Spring 2.0, Hibernate 3.2, an Ajax + Spring MVC version, an Acegi Security + Spring MVC version and Struts 2.0 as an optional web framework. It's highly likely that the "extras/security" package can be installed with other web frameworks, but it's only been tested with Spring MVC. Furthermore, this release provided all of the different combinations that Equinox provides - all 50 of them!

All of the frameworks used in Equinox, as well as most of its build/test system is explained in Spring Live. A summary of the changes are below (detailed release notes can be found in JIRA):

  • Added extras/spring-ajax with examples of ajaxified displaytag (with AjaxAnywhere), in-place editing (Script.aculo.us), in-page updates (DWR) and lightbox (Lightbox gone Wild) popups.
  • Added extras/security with Acegi Security integration for authentication and authorization.
  • Automated creation and testing of all possible combinations for distribution.
  • Converted from JSP to Facelets for JSF/MyFaces option.
  • Integrated Ajax4JSF into JSF/MyFaces option.
  • Added Struts 2.0.1 as web framework.
  • Upgraded to Spring 2.0, including improved XML syntax and JSP Form Tags
  • Added Cargo settings to pom.xml so it's possible to run web tests from Maven.
  • Changed dataSource bean to use a connection pool.
  • Added popup calendar (using jscalendar) to Spring MVC and Struts 2.
  • Added OpenSessionInViewFilter for Hibernate and OpenPersistenceManagerInViewFilter for JDO/JPOX.
  • Fixed foreign-language encoding issues with Spring's CharacterEncodingFilter.
  • Changed from DAO to Dao to be more consistent with other projects.
  • Dependent packages upgraded:
    • Canoo WebTest 1393
    • Cargo 0.8
    • Commons Validator 1.3.0
    • DWR 1.1.1
    • FreeMarker 2.3.8
    • jMock 1.1.0
    • JPOX 1.1.1
    • Hibernate 3.2
    • MyFaces 1.1.4
    • Spring 2.0
    • Spring Modules Validation 0.5
    • Struts 1.2.9
    • Tapestry 4.0.2
    • WebWork 2.2.4
  • Dependent packages added:
    • Acegi Security 1.0.2
    • Ajax4JSF 1.0.2
    • AjaxAnywhere 1.2-rc2
    • Facelets 1.1.11
    • Struts 2.0.1

Download. For more information about installing the various options, see the README.txt file.

Demos:

Thanks to all the users of Equinox for making this a great release!

P.S. I'm fully aware that this project's name conflicts with an Eclipse project. ;-) Posted in Java at Oct 20 2006, 04:28:31 PM MDT 16 Comments