AppFuseRoadmap

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.

AppFuse 2.0 - late 2006

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

Milestone 3

• Integrate XFire by default (for existing classes and generated classes)
• Code Generation/AppGen - hopefully with the AppFuse Maven Plugin
• Documentation

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 (pending))
• JPA Support
• Support for JDK 1.4 using something like Retroweaver
• Support for using Ant to build/test/deploy AppFuse-based projects
• Someone to do all the documentation ;-)

AppFuse 2.1 - early 2007

• 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, Laszlo and/or J2ME front-end
• Change from using Canoo WebTest to using Selenium for UI testing (Maven + Selenium HowTo)
• What others would like to see

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