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This page is designed to document what's next for AppFuse. Feel free to add suggestions as you see fit.

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|http://issues.appfuse.org/browse/APF?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel].

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!!AppFuse 1.8 - sometime before Summer 2005

* AppGen improvements to allow running it twice for a POJO. Also will remove hard-coded id and read from @hibernate.id. These improvements will be largely based on [this patch|https://appfuse.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=104] from Henry Zhang.

* Replace existing security implementation with the more robust [Acegi Security System for Spring|http://acegisecurity.sf.net].

* Community Building, hopefully add some additional Committers

* Revamp build.xml to use Ant 1.6 features like macrodef and imports

* Create an installer using [MyJavaPack|http://open-centric.com/myjavapack/] that can install Ant, AppFuse, MySQL and Tomcat. Basically, give developer's a way to install and start developing with AppFuse in under 5 minutes.

* Add tutorial on wiki about many-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many (if time) relationships and how to code them.

!!AppFuse 2.0 - late 2006

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!!AppFuse 1.9 - sometime in June 2005

* Community Building, hopefully add some additional Committers.

* Short video showing off setup, features and AppGen (maybe different videos).

* Replace AppFuse custom features with Acegi features: SSL Switching, Password Encryption, Remember Me.

* Research using a local DataSource (w/ connection pool) instead of a JNDI DataSource. This should be easy with Commons DBCP and Spring.

* What do __you__ want?

!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

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!Milestone 2

* [JDK 5, Annotations and JSP 2.0|http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?anchor=appfuse_2_0_jdk_5]

* 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|http://mojo.codehaus.org/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|http://mojo.codehaus.org/tomcat-maven-plugin/introduction.html] that supports [tomcat:run|http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MOJO-384] and [tomcat:run-war|http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MOJO-567] (pending))

* JPA Support

* Support for JDK 1.4 using something like [Retroweaver|http://retroweaver.sourceforge.net/]

* 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|http://www.opensymphony.com/compass/], tutorials already existing for [Spring MVC|http://www.nabble.com/search---integrate-compass-%28lucene%29-and-appfuse-p5022176s2369.html] and [JSF|http://www.nabble.com/RE%3A-search---integrate-compass-%28lucene%29-and-appfuse-p5222253s2369.html]

* 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

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* Add installer for Resin that rebuilds build.xml for Resin instead of Tomcat. There's not much demand for this right now, so I've postponed it.

* (Possibly) Add a Swing client that can talk to at least one of the above frameworks (if not all).

* (Possibly) Add a [Laszlo|http://laszlosystems.com] front-end. I've heard this might be possible with Tapestry or JSF.

* (Really don't want to) Offer Maven as an alternative to building with Ant. This will likely make the IDE integration easier as it's not very good right now.

* [What others would like to see|http://raibledesigns.com/comments/rd/Weblog/if_you_could_add_another]

* (Possibly) Add a Swing/RCP, Laszlo and/or J2ME front-end

* Change from using Canoo WebTest to using [Selenium|http://openqa.org/selenium/] for UI testing ([Maven + Selenium HowTo|http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+and+Selenium])

* [What others would like to see|http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd/Weblog/if_you_could_add_another]

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!!Various Ideas - don't know if I'll use them'

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

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* Use JMeter or Microsoft's Web Application Testing tool to configure load testing scripts for inclusion in the distribution. Motivated by [this post|http://blog.rossmason.com/archives/000025.html].

* Create tutorial on how to integrate Quartz (using Spring).

* Create tutorial on how to integrate Lucene for searching users.

* Use JMeter, Grinder or Microsoft's Web Application Testing tool to configure load testing scripts for inclusion in the distribution. Motivated by [this post|http://blog.rossmason.com/archives/2004/02/jmeter_measures_up.html].

* Create tutorial on how to integrate Quartz (using Spring). See Luciano Fiandesio's <a href="http://www.lucianofiandesio.com/javatales/qtzfuse.html">AppFuse and Quartz: an integration tutorial</a>.

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