As committed to the board agenda in svn. ---- Apache Tiles is a templating framework built to simplify the development of web application user interfaces.
Releases: We released version 3.0.0 of the Tiles Framework as Beta quality. Along with this release we split out the autotag and request frameworks from the main Tiles project. We released the first version of these frameworks as beta quality. This release is revolutionary in that it no longer evnisions Tiles as a framework for generating templates at runtime within Java web applications. Tiles is now moving towards the goal of being useful as an offline templating mechanism as well. We hope this will generate interest from a new class of users. Community: Nicolas LE BAS joined the Tiles PMC this quarter and Antonio Petrelli stepped down from the PMC. The Tiles community continues to be in a slowly regenerating state. The addition of Nicolas and the departure of Antonio both signal progress in that direction. We are hoping the release of the 3.0 line of work will spark more interest in the project and help with the rebuilding of the community. The autotag and request frameworks may eventually be spun off into top-level projects, but for now they do not have a separate community building around them.
