| title: "[ANN] Apache Isis version 2.0.0-M3 Released" |
| date: '2020-03-29T23:33:58+00:00' |
| permalink: ann-apache-isis-version-2 |
| <p>After a *lot* of development effort, the Apache Isis committers are delighted to announce the release of v2.0.0-M3 of the framework.<br><br>This is a major milestone release that "re-platforms" Apache Isis so that it now runs on top of Spring Boot 2.x. JDK8 is the minimum. Some highlights:</p><ul><li>A new convenience parent pom builds on top of Spring Boot’s similar parent pom, to make it easy to develop new apps, along with simplified "mavendeps" pom’s.</li><li>The Maven archetypes have been replaced with Starter Apps in github repos.</li><li>Configuration properties have been refactored, and can now be specified (with intellisense hints) using Spring’s application.properties or application.yml</li></ul><p>New features:<br></p><ul><li>a new @Property#projecting allows view model summaries to be returned as "projections" of underlying entities.</li><li>new layout() method (or UI event) allows a domain object to specify which layout file should be used to render it.</li><li>there is no longer any need to specify @ParameterLayout#named()</li><li>there is now a security integration with Keycloak</li></ul><p>There are also a number of new extensions:</p><ul><li>Flyway (integrating with Spring Boot’s support)</li><li>pdf.js (for Wicket viewer)</li><li>fullcalendar (for Wicket viewer)</li><li>excel download (for Wicket viewer)</li></ul><p>Other improvements include:</p><ul><li>Integration test support, and BDD (Cucumber) "spec" support have been refactored to run on Spring Boot with Junit 5.</li><li>New demo app to demonstrate new features.</li><li>New smoketest app to catch regressions</li></ul><p>Finally, the website has been updated to use Antora.</p><p>Full release notes are available on the Apache Isis website at [1].<br>You can access this release directly from the Maven central repo [2].<br>Alternatively, download the release and build it from source [3].<br></p><p>Enjoy!<br></p><p>--The Apache Isis team<br></p><p>[1] <a href="https://isis.apache.org/relnotes/2.0.0-M3/about.html" target="_blank">https://isis.apache.org/relnotes/2.0.0-M3/about.html</a><br>[2] <a href="http://search.maven.org" target="_blank">http://search.maven.org</a><br>[3] https://isis.apache.org/docs/2.0.0-M3/downloads/how-to.html<br><br></p><p><br></p> |
