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10+ YEARS


Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.

[ANN] AppFuse 1.6.1 Released

This release is primarily a bug fix release, but it also contains a slick "AppGen" tool for generating full CRUD (with sample data and tests) from a POJO. AppGen essentially automates everything you do in the tutorials. I still encourage users to read through and do the tutorials in order to learn the code that is being generated. This feature basically reduces the amount of files you need to create/alter for CRUD from 16 to 2. Better yet, rather than generating the DAO and Manager (as well as the tests), it just uses generic methods in the base implementations. This eliminates the need (and hopefully desire) to create so many DAOs and Managers. In most cases, you can simply use the "manager" bean in your Actions/Controllers and call its respective methods. Thanks to Hibernate for making generic CRUD possible with only a handful of methods. Now you should be able to simply concentrate on the web-tier and only modify/create backend classes when you need special behavior.

To upgrade your 1.6 based application, I recommend performing the following steps:

This is how I've always done my AppFuse upgrades for Struts-Resume. It takes a couple of hours, but it's a lot easier than me trying to create an upgrade package. ;-)

I'll be talking about AppFuse this weekend at Denver's NFJS Conference. Next Monday I'll be in Vegas at ApacheCon. I've never done two different talks back-to-back before, let alone at two different conferences. Should be fun.

Posted in Java at Nov 09 2004, 11:53:44 PM MST 24 Comments