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| Latest News (Tues 9th, Dec 2003) |
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New Jaffa Release - v1.3.0 Back in October we announced the availability of Jaffa v1.3. This release was a maintenance release primarily focused on Struts 1.1 compatibility, but it also includes all the smaller feature requests and bug fixes over the last few months. Highlights of Jaffa v1.3.0 are
For more details look at the Release Notes Version 2.0 Plans As we speak there has been much work done on version 2.0, which is available via CVS. The main focus of the v2.0 is a major rework of all the component patterns based around the Struts 1.1 and Tiles capability. Beyond just a visual overhaul of the patterns some major changes have been introduced into the Maintenance pattern which allow it to now support related object maintenance, as well as features like dirty read detection, timestamping, comments fields, multi-screen 'wizard' based entry. In conjunction with these changes the application builder has been modified so it now generates inter-related maintenance components, as well as providing values for the other new fields added to the patterns. We are now working on some 'Jaffa Components' that will work under the new patterns to allow for various customizations of the deploy application. This will allow things like label, settings, logging, etc to be tailored. Version 2.0 Release The vision of the next release, is not only to provide the normal jaffa.jar,jaffa-tools.jar and jaffa-html.zip, we also want to the new relase the new components (jaffa-components.jar, jaffa-components-html.zip). jaffa-baseline.zip Along with this we aim to release jaffa-baseline.zip. This file when unzipped will be a complete* Jaffa baseline project with all the normal Jaffa development and runtime binaries, as well as configuration files and build scripts etc. It will also include database setup, and possibly a complete MySQL database with data. *Unfortunately we can't include any commercial 3rd party jar's in here (like oracle drivers, etc) The goal of this project, is to have a single Ant script that will build a basic Jaffa application, then configure and deploy it to run on your web server, without any of the hard work that this would normally entail. (Assuming you have Java, Ant and Tomcat installed!) jaffa-example1.zip The next part of getting started with Jaffa is using the App Builder to generate a basic application from a domain model. This 'jaffa-example1.zip' will contain a domain model along with a couple of config files and Ant scripts. When this file is unzipped over the jaffa-baseline.zip, and the supplied Ant script is run, this then from the domain model will generate the application components descriptors, generate the component code, compile it, build the WAR file and deploy it, creating the tables in the database. You now have your first Jaffa application built from scratch, up and working in 5 minutes. Beyond this we are still working on a full blown sample application that shows all aspects of our patterns, as there are plenty of ways to tweak the generated XML files beyond what the App Builder produces. The generated source also has numerous extension points for custom code. When? Jaffa v2.0 is currently in CVS, but we plan to make the official release with the baseline project and examples either at the end of this year or early into 2004, assuming we can squeeze it in between our real jobs. |
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