AppFuseRoadmap

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July/August 2004

• Add WebWork as a web framework choice. Replace Tiles with Sitemesh as part of this process.
• Enhance IDE integration, particularly with Eclipse and hot deploying. Attempt to get AppFuse working with MyEclipse. Figure out a way so that unit tests do not depend on running Ant first.
• Remove seldom used components (i.e. Clickstream, PMD, Checkstyle) and add documentation on how to add them back in.
• Modify Cactus to create a <runcontainer> task for all supported containers. The idea here is to make AppFuse so it can be easily run with Resin or Tomcat, by only changing a few Ant properties. Status: Not Started, here is the thread for implementing this.
• Add support/documentation for Sun Appserver 8
• Fix XDoclet form generation one-to-one mappings. Figure out and document how to generate validation rules for nested forms.
• Replace Mail classes with Spring's Mail support.
• Fix all these damn bugs ;-)

• [Low Priority] Figure out how to use MockStrutsTestCase to run ActionTests out-of-container. In-container is too slow. {Lance: Try mockrunner.sf.net - check out the BookmarksActionTest in Roller (baby steps). I never did get MockStrutsTestCase to work.}
• [Low Priority] Add Configuration object that talks to a database table for application configuration. Create a dynamic UI (JSP) to handle updating.

• MILESTONE: Release 1.6 and take a break before the Tapestry/JSF push (1.7 and 2.0).

Fall/Winter 20004

• Add Tapestry as a web framework choice.
• Figure out how to use Mocks to create faster unit tests, rather than just integrations tests (which is what exists now).
• Add JSF as a web framework choice.
• (Possibly) Add a Swing client that can talk to at least one of the above frameworks (if not all).

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