Hey CJUGgers, just wanted to pass along an open source announcement
that I'm circulating today. JCatapult is a project that I've been
working on for almost a year now and we are getting close to our full
1.0 release. Here's the release that I'm posting around today:
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JCatapult RC2 released!
The JCatapult team is pleased to announce the release of 1.0-RC2.
For those unfamiliar with JCatapult, here is an overview:
JCatapult is an open source (ASLv2) application development platform
targeted primarily at web
applications, but capable of being used for most applications.
JCatapult is built on top of well known open source tools including:
- Apache Ant
- Struts2
- Hibernate
- Guice
- FreeMarker
- Joda
- Many others
As
a web application platform, JCatapult provides a truly lightweight
method of writing and using services. By leveraging Guice for
dependency injection you don't have to mess around with tons of XML
files to wire your application together. In fact, JCatapult is based on
the principle of discovering services. This means you write the
services and JCatapult will find them.
One of the best
features of JCatapult is its support for Modules. JCatapult Modules are
full sets of functionality that can be plugged into any JCatapult web
application. An example of a Module might be a fully functional Blog.
Once added, JCatapult will discover the Module and your web application
will inherit all its functionality. In other words, users will be able
to add, edit and manage blogs without you having to write a single line
of code. A number of commercial JCatapult Modules are already being
written and more are in the works. The JCatapult team hopes to see a
number of open source Modules start to appear in the near future.
JCatapult has a number of other services and tools it provides
including:
- Scaffolding framework
- Deployment framework
- Database migrations
- Pluggable build system
- Dependency management (via Savant)
- Credit card services
- Email services
- And others
JCatapult is already in use in a number of websites and is stable.
Head over to http://www.jcatapult.org and
check it out.
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