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AppFuse 2.0.2 Released

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.

To learn more about AppFuse, please read Ryan Withers' Igniting your applications with AppFuse.

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

• Java Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 (2.1 for JSF)
• 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.

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

Please post any issues you have with this release to the mailing list.

AppFuse Light 1.8.2 Released

AppFuse Light 1.8.2 is a bug fixes release that includes upgrades for Spring, Spring Security, Hibernate, Wicket, Tapestry and many others. In addition, Spring bean definitions were replaced with annotations (@Repository, @Service and @Controller). See the Release Notes for more information on what's changed since the last release.

AppFuse Light now offers 60 possible combinations for download:

• Web Frameworks: JSF (MyFaces), Spring MVC (with Ajax, Acegi Security, JSP, FreeMarker or Velocity), Stripes, Struts 1.x, Struts 2.x, Tapestry, WebWork, Wicket
• Persistence Frameworks: Hibernate, iBATIS, JDO (JPOX), OJB, Spring JDBC

If you have any questions about this release, please subscribe to the AppFuse user mailing list by sending a blank e-mail to [email protected]. You can also post questions in a forum-like fashion using Nabble: http://appfuse.org/forum/user.

Issues with AntRun Plugin and Maven

I started seeing the following error today when using Maven and the AntRun Plugin.

[INFO] [antrun:run {execution: default}]
[INFO] Executing tasks
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error executing ant tasks
	
Embedded error: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method 
org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Locator.decodeUri(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String; 
from class org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader

Searching the internet provided no results, so I was pretty stumped - especially since this error didn't happen on my MacBook Pro. It happened on AppFuse's Bamboo server (Linux), but not locally. Luckily, I was able to reproduce it on my Windows box and discovered the solution: upgrade to a newer version of Maven. I was using 2.0.6/2.0.7 and upgrading to 2.0.9 fixed the problem.

BTW, when is the Ant project going to release a new version of Ant? The current 1.7.0 version doesn't support spaces in path names, which seems like a pretty big issue to me (especially for Windows users).

JavaOne Parties Update

In an effort to keep one of the top spots for "javaone parties", here's the updated list for JavaOne parties this week:

• Tuesday: CodeGear: Thirsty Bear @ 5:30, Open Source UnBOF: Thirsty Bear @ 8, TangoSolarMetric: Zebulon @ 9
• Wednesday: Adobe: Jillian's @ 6:30, Eclipse: Thirsty Bear @ 7, Tiki Bar Party: The Bamboo Hut @ 8
• Thursday: JBoss: Jillian's @ 5:30, QCon: Zebulon @ 6:30

Thanks to Atlassian for the free beer last night at Thirsty Bear. I'll likely be at Thirsty Bear tonight, followed by Zebulon. Let the networking begin!

Related: JavaOne: Where are the good parties at?

Happy Cinco de Linko!

Today is packed full of celebrations and traveling for me. First of all, it's Cinco de Mayo, which is always a good excuse for a margarita. Secondly, I'm heading to Mountain View to assist my co-workers in celebrating Cinco de Linko. After that, I'm pitching in a LinkedIn softball game trying to beat the #1 team in our league. Then I'll be heading up to the festivities of JavaOne. It's likely I won't be "networking" until late night. I'll be twittering all week if want to know where the good parties are.

Update: I just learned how to find out when you first joined LinkedIn. Click on "Account & Settings" at the top of any LinkedIn page. On that page, in the upper-right corner in grey text, you should see "User since: " and the date you joined. Interestingly enough, I joined May 27, 2003 - just 22 days after the launch.

Denver Weather

Yesterday it was 82°F in Denver, today it's snowing. Here's the view from our office in downtown Denver. Drab and dreary - perfect for the Avs Playoff Game tonight.