News from May, 2008

The AppFuse Team is pleased to announce the release of AppFuse 2.0.2. This release includes upgrades to Spring Security 2.0, jMock 2.4, the ability to customize code generation templates and many bug fixes.

For information on upgrading from 2.0.1, see the Release Notes or changelog. AppFuse 2.0.2 is available as a Maven archetype. For information on creating a new project using AppFuse, please see the QuickStart Guide or the demos and videos.

The 2.0 series of AppFuse has a minimum requirement of the following specification versions:

• Java Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0
• Java 5+

If you've used AppFuse 1.x, but not 2.x, you'll want to read the FAQ. Join the user mailing list if you have any questions. The Maven Reference Guide has a map of Ant -> Maven commands. Maven for Newbies might also be useful if you've never used Maven before.

Thanks to everyone for their help contributing code, writing documentation, posting to the mailing lists, and logging issues.

We greatly appreciate the help from our sponsors, particularly Atlassian, Contegix, JetBrains, and Java.net. Atlassian and Contegix are especially awesome: Atlassian has donated licenses to all its products and Contegix has donated an entire server to the AppFuse project.

If you're looking for an excellent article explaining what AppFuse is, please see Ryan Withers' Igniting your applications with AppFuse. For in-depth coverage of AppFuse and all its supporting frameworks, there's no better place to go than David Whitehurst's AppFuse Primer. Thanks to both Ryan and David for their contributions to this project.

Chris Barham has been a busy guy lately. Not only has he written a tutorial on integrating external sorting and pagination with the Display Tag, but he's also written a tutorial on how to integrate Compass 2.0 into AppFuse. Check out the links below for more information:

• AppFuse + DisplayTag: External Sorting and Paging Example
• Integrating Compass 2.0 into AppFuse

Awesome work Chris.