[ann] WebWork 1.0 released!

[Rickard <ri...@middleware-company.com>]

I'm proud to announce the release of WebWork 1.0! WebWork is a HMVC web 
application framework in Java, developed as Open Source (BSD license) 
and designed to help create dynamic websites using minimal effort and 
maximum flexibility. It's architecture is easy to learn and understand, 
yet has features that allow for complex applications to be built.

One of the main features is it's total separation between the controller 
and view aspects of an application, thus allowing for a multitude of 
view technologies to be utilized. Out of the box WebWork has support for 
JSP (and comes with an extensive tag library that covers most needs), 
XSLT, and the template engine Velocity. Adding support for more such 
tools is very easy (the Velocity "integration" was done in hours), 
allowing you to have maximum flexibility with regard to how you 
structure your application.

You also get to choose whether you want to use a Model-1 or Model-2 
approach to building applications, although we'd recommend using both as 
is described in our comprehensive documentation that includes reference 
sheets (for the tag library and expression language) and many useful 
tips&tricks sections.

WebWork comes with a comprehensive set of examples that are both used to 
test the functionality of the framework, as well as showcase how it can 
be used. Many examples are conversions from other frameworks (such as 
Struts) so that you can see firsthand how WebWork differs from the rest 
of the crowd.

One of the most important tasks when working with frameworks like this 
is the configuration step, which is where Java classes are mapped to 
logical names (used for invocation) and where the connection between 
controller and view (such as a JSP or Velocity template) is made. This 
configuration can be done manually, but to ease this process there is an 
XDoclet extension available (through the XDoclet project, see 
http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net) that will allow you to specify all such 
configuration directly in your Java code using custom WebWork-specific 
JavaDoc tags.
XDoclet is also used to generate HTML documentation of your application, 
which helps to serve as a
communication channel between the Java developer and web designer (if 
those roles are separated into
several team members).

There are a multitude of other unique and interesting features that we 
are very excited about, but we'd encourage you to download and find out 
about those yourself. So get it now from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14797

Documentation can be found in the download, or online at:
http://213.203.18.31/

We encourage you to try WebWork together with the wonderful SiteMesh 
(http://www.opensymphony.com) and XDoclet tools, a combination which can 
give you an amazing productivity and clean application architeture.

This is an OpenSource project, developed using an open development 
process, and is hosted by SourceForge. If you have any questions we 
recommend the user mailing list, and if you have suggestions for 
improvements we're all ears on the development mailing list, both of 
which can be found on the project homepage at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webwork

If you are attending JavaOne this year, then you might want to stop by 
our WebWork developer meeting on Wednesday March 27, 6.30pm at Fourth 
street Bar & Deli (across from the Metreon). See ya there :-)

/Rickard Öberg, WebWork project manager

-- 
Rickard Öberg
Author of "Mastering RMI"
Chief Architect, TheServerSide.com
   The Middleware Company - We Build Experts!


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Re: [ann] WebWork 1.0 released!

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@optonline.net>]

On 3/22/02 6:25 AM, "Rickard" <ri...@middleware-company.com> wrote:

> I'm proud to announce the release of WebWork 1.0! WebWork is a HMVC web
> application framework in Java, developed as Open Source (BSD license)
> and designed to help create dynamic websites using minimal effort and
> maximum flexibility. It's architecture is easy to learn and understand,
> yet has features that allow for complex applications to be built.
> 
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