[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Juneau 8.0.0 Released

[James Bognar <ja...@apache.org>]

Hello all,

The Apache Juneau team is proud to announce the release of Juneau 8.0.0!

Apache Juneau is:
- A universal API for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of content
types using a common framework.
- A set of predefined DTOs for serializing and parsing languages such
as HTML5, Swagger and ATOM.
- A simple yet powerful variable replacement language API.
- A sophisticated configuration API.
- A universal REST server API for creating REST interfaces with
auto-generated/self-hosted Swagger UI deployable in any Servlet 3.1.0+
container or Spring Boot application.
- A universal REST client API for interacting with Juneau or 3rd-party
REST interfaces using POJOs and proxy interfaces.
- A builder-based API for creating microservices.

More information can be found here:
http://juneau.apache.org/index.html#about.html

8.0.0 is a major release with significant new functionality in the
microservice APIs:
- The Microservice API has been revamped to use a builder-based
approach to creating microservices.
- New Spring Boot integration support classes allowing Juneau REST
resources to easily be deployed as Spring Beans.
- New template starter projects for creating either Jetty or
Spring-Boot based microservices.
- New instructions on how to quickly deploy Juneau-based applications to Heroku.

The release is available here (don't forget to verify the signatures):
http://juneau.apache.org/index.html#downloads.html

Release notes can be found here:
http://juneau.apache.org/site/apidocs-8.0.0/overview-summary.html#8.0.0

We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on the project
and how to get involved, visit the project website at
http://juneau.apache.org/