Apache Isis 0.1.2 (incubating) Released

Finally… after 5 (count them) release candidates, and a pretty steep learning curve, last week we finally released the first release of Apache Isis out of the ASF incubator.

Apache Isis is a full-stack open source application development framework, designed to let you rapidly develop domain-driven business enterprise applications using the naked objects pattern. It’s built with Maven and has a quickstart archetype to get you going quickly:

mvn archetype:generate  \
    -D archetypeGroupId=org.apache.isis \
    -D archetypeArtifactId=quickstart-archetype \
    -D groupId=com.mycompany \
    -D artifactId=myapp

This is the first release of Apache Isis, and comprises the initial take-on of the original Naked Objects Framework along with a number of sister projects developed for my book, Domain Driven Design using Naked Objects.

In addition, the release includes the scimpi framework, which provides a customizable web viewer (using JSF-like tags), and an initial version of a new JSON viewer (proving restful access to domain objects using JSON representations). There is also an initial version of a NoSQL object store, and improvements to the existing SQL object store.

Finally, there’s an all-new website with lots of new documentation, and an all-new Maven archetype to get you going quickly. See the website for the full release notes.

Some of the themes for the next release look out are improved documentation, Maven 3 support, improvements and extensions to the Wicket viewer and the JSON viewer. Now that we have a first release out, we’re hoping to push out a new release every 6 weeks or so.