[Report] Apache Tiles

[Greg Reddin <gr...@gmail.com>]

As committed to the December board agenda:


Apache Tiles is a templating framework built to simplify the development of
web application user interfaces.

We added one new committer this quarter: Nicolas LE BAS. We are hoping that a
beta release of Tiles 3 (the next revolutionary version of Tiles) will occur
sometime in the next quarter.

The Apache Tiles project is in a rebuilding phase. Several of the original PMC
members remain on board primarily to build and mentor a new PMC. Almost all of
the original PMC members have stated their intention to go emeritus once the
project is re-established. We really need to add two or three more people for
this to work, so I expect the process to take a minimum of several months to
play out. It all depends on how much interest we generate.

In the meantime work is ongoing to create a new revolutionary version of Tiles.
Previous versions of the framework required an online Servlet environment to
render pages. Tiles 3 will abstract all the templating capabilities from the
Servlet environment so that sites can be constituted and rendered in an offline
mode. We are now moving toward a beta release of this functionality.