The Isis team is pleased to announce the release of: * Apache Isis Core version 1.8.0 * SimpleApp Archetype 1.8.0
New features in this release include: - a new theme-able look-n-feel for the Wicket viewer, using Twitter Bootstrap [1] and font awesome icons [2] - a new simplified set of annotations (@Property, @DomainObject, @CollectionLayout etc) to make features more discoverable; see cheat-sheet [3] - support to enable multi-tenancy (in particular in conjunction with Isis addons security module [4]) - new i18n support using gettext .po files, honouring user locale [5] - sign-up/self-regisration support (so that end-users can create own user accounts) [6] - EmailService for sending HTML emails, optionally with attachments [7] - ability to validate individual parameters imperatively - config property to flag use of deprecated annotations/method prefixes - Maven plugin to validate domain object model with respect to Isis programming conventions - improved support for Neo4J - experimental support for more flexibility of generating Restful Objects representations [8] Full release notes are available on the Isis website [9] Note that: * as of 1.8.0 the Wicket Viewer is bundled in with Core * the ToDoApp archetype is no longer provided, however the example todoapp is available from Isis addons (not ASF) to fork and adapt [10]. * this release drops support for JDK 1.6, standardizes on JDK 1.7 You can access this release directly from the Maven central repo [11], or download the release and build it from source [12]. Enjoy! --The Isis team [1] http://www.getbootstrap.com/ [2] http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/ [3] http://isis.apache.org/intro/resources/cheat-sheet.html [4] https://github.com/isisaddons/isis-module-security [5] http://isis.apache.org/config/i18n-support.html [6] http://isis.apache.org/reference/services/user-registration-service.html [7] http://isis.apache.org/reference/services/email-service.html [8] http://isis.apache.org/components/viewers/restfulobjects/suppressing-elements-of-the-representations.html [9] http://isis.apache.org/core/release-notes/isis-1.8.0.html [10] https://github.com/isisaddons/isis-app-todoapp [11] http://search.maven.org [12] http://isis.apache.org/download.html
