[ANN] Expresso 5.0 Released

[Sandra Cann <fl...@prodigy.net>]

The Expresso team is proud to announce Expresso 5.0 - a major new
release. Expresso is an open source architectural J2EE framework
comprising application development components which extends Struts for
developing database-driven web applications.  Expresso has more than
100,000 downloads and offers the benefit of being the largest framework
community - about 4500 developers on it's listserv.

This major release includes more than 50 new features, many feature and
performance improvements, package updates, as well as significant
JavaDoc and documentation updates. Download freely from:
http://www.jcorporate.com/product/expresso.html > Download link  (both
Expresso source and binaries available)

Highlights of the Expresso 5.0 release include:

- Additional Struts Integration including Tiles integration,
ActionForms, Radio Input types, Combobox tag, and an Expresso-aware
html:link tag that will work with Transitions.
- Refactored Authentication and Registration including Login prompt
automation, email address validation and Redirection support 
- Clean & Universal URL support
- Basic Workflow Capabilities  
- Container-Based Authentication Integration
- SSL Integration Capabilities: now can transition into and out of SSL
web pages and still maintain session state. 
- Security Enhancements have been made.
- many DBObjects improvements including a new class that can have Row
level permissions.
- BLOB/CLOB datatypes Support
- JNDI Compatible Data Connections: critical for JTA compatibility as
well as some drivers for, for example, DB2 databases. 
- i18n Improvements: Error Collections can have keys to Message Bundles
with this tag. Polish and Chinese language support added. 

Please refer to the Change log for the complete list.
http://www.jcorporate.com/econtent/Content.do?state=resource&resource=79
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Release notes:
http://www.jcorporate.com/econtent/Content.do?state=resource&resource=11
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Contact and Location Example demos are available for download at:
http://www.jcorporate.com/econtent/Content.do?state=template&template=2&
db=default&resource=767 > Downloads link

For more information on Struts users getting started with Expresso
please see "Expresso/Struts Integration Summary" at:
http://www.jcorporate.com/econtent/Content.do?state=resource&resource=58
6. You may also want to view the Roadmap under the doc to see the
schedule for Struts 1.1 integration.

If it has been some time since you evaluated Expresso, please consider
doing so again.

Special thanks to Michael Rimov for all of his dedication as lead
developer on Expresso 5.0. This release is also credited to the many
community members that have offered their contributions, support and
feedback.  This collaborative development synergy has created the best
Expresso release yet. 

Regards
--
The Expresso Team 



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