Roadmap
Added by Matt Raible, last edited by Matt Raible on Sep 04, 2007 01:31

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This page is designed to document what's on the roadmap for future versions of AppFuse. Feel free to add suggestions as you see fit. For a more detailed report of where we are on the roadmap, see the roadmap in JIRA. You might also checkout the Event Calendar for events related to AppFuse. We sometimes add proposed release dates to this calendar, but we often miss the dates since this is an all-volunteer project.

AppFuse 2.0 - Spring 2007

Milestone 1

~~Maven 2 integration~~
~~Migrate from CVS to Subversion~~
~~Remove XDoclet, putting generated files into source tree~~
~~Get all flavors (WARs) deployed and running on Tomcat and Jetty Maven Plugin~~
~~Spring 2.0: Upgrade XML to XSDs, annotations where appropriate~~
~~Upgrade WebWork to Struts 2~~
~~Documentation: move to new Confluence or DocBook-based system for 2.0 documentation~~

Milestone 2

~~JDK 5, Annotations and JSP 2.0~~
~~Archetypes for creating new AppFuse projects~~
~~Documentation, including screencasts for tutorials~~
Released on January 12, 2007

Milestone 3

~~Internationalization~~
~~Bug fixes for M2 and archetypes~~
Released on February 6, 2007

Milestone 4

~~Fix modular archetypes, i18n bundles and polish documentation~~
Released on March 24, 2007

Milestone 5

~~Integrate XFire by default (for existing classes and generated classes)~~
~~Code Generation/AppGen - using the AppFuse Maven Plugin~~
~~Documentation~~
Released on May 23, 2007

Release Candidate 1

Released on September 4, 2007

2.0 Nice to haves

TestNG replacing JUnit
Hibernate Validation Annotations (hard part is hooking it into the web frameworks)
Tomcat Plugin for Maven (that operates like Jetty's plugin) (Looks like there is a Maven 2 Tomcat Plugin that supports tomcat:run and tomcat:run-war)
~~JPA Support~~
Support for JDK 1.4 using something like Retroweaver
Support for using Ant to build/test/deploy AppFuse-based projects
Change from using Canoo WebTest to using Selenium for UI testing (Maven + Selenium HowTo)

AppFuse 2.1

Search using Compass, tutorials already existing for Spring MVC and JSF
Pageable lists that only fetch a specified number of records (i.e. 10 at a time)
Ajax Goodies (TBD)

AppFuse 2.2

Convention over configuration, no XML modifications needed when adding new files
Plugin API so all "features" can be added/removed via plugins
Add Wicket and Stripes as supported web frameworks

Future

(Possibly) Add a Swing/RCP, GWT, Laszlo and/or J2ME front-end
What others would like to see

Various Ideas - don't know if we'll use them

Use JMeter, Grinder or Microsoft's Web Application Testing tool to configure load testing scripts for inclusion in the distribution. Motivated by this post.
~~Create tutorial on how to integrate Quartz (using Spring).~~ See Luciano Fiandesio's AppFuse and Quartz: an integration tutorial.
Add Configuration object that talks to a database table for application configuration. Create a dynamic UI (JSP) to handle updating.
Add Seam support (after they add Spring integration)