AppFuseRoadmap

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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 from Henry Zhang.
• Replace existing security implementation with the more robust Acegi Security System for Spring.
• 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 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. Status: In Progress

AppFuse 1.9 - sometime in July 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 (or C3PO's ComboPooledDataSource) and Spring.
• Create iBATIS Tutorial and (possibly) AppGen integration.
• Look into adding one-to-many UI support to AppGen.
• Look into Ivy for dependency management, since it's a no brainer. ;-)
• What do you want?

AppFuse 2.0 - late 2006

• JDK 5, Annotations and JSP 2.0

Future

• 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 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

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