[forge-dev] Announcing 2.0.0.Alpha13 of JBoss Forge (Lucky Thirteen)

[Lincoln Baxter]

http://forge.jboss.org/news/2013/10/03/post-forge-2.html

We are pleased to announce the release of “Lucky Thirteen”, a Forge Runtime that features a streamlined programming model for Addon developers (no more @Exported annotation,) as well as a wide array of new Commands for developing Java EE applications.

 ***** Resource Transactions and Resource Change Monitoring  *****

There are a lot of exciting features (as you can see by the release notes below); however, there are some outstanding features that we are proud to present. The first of which are resource transactions and monitoring.

 ***** Release Notes – Check out all the new stuff! *****

Bug

[FORGE-1192] – Ill behaved addons can screw up the command popup in Eclipse
[FORGE-1203] – Furnace CDI is unable to create proxies for services that are backed by Weld proxies (@ApplicationScoped, etc)
[FORGE-1206] – Imported<?>.get() has a different behavior compared to iterator()
[FORGE-1223] – CheckboxTableControlBuilder does not properly initialize data collection when default values are set

Enhancement

[FORGE-757] – Forge tests should delete the created folders
[FORGE-1196] – Rename flag forge.compatibility.IDE to forge.standalone
[FORGE-1239] – UISelectOne and UISelectMany components could have dynamic value choices

Feature Request

[FORGE-220] – Forge should listen to filesystem changes on the system and publish events for plugins to observe
[FORGE-801] – Support for Transactional Resources
[FORGE-846] – Create a template processor addon
[FORGE-1193] – Eclipse plugin doesn't handle subflows correctly
[FORGE-1194] – Support addition of warnings to a validation context
[FORGE-1195] – Support addition of information messages to a validation context
[FORGE-1197] – Eclipse plugin should render a Spinner component for Number types
[FORGE-1198] – UIValidationContext should reference the current input being validated
[FORGE-1200] – Add A at Column(length) on Entity attributes of type String
[FORGE-1202] – Furnace Maven plugin should allow generation of the full addon dependency graph
[FORGE-1205] – Migrate CommandScoped to Forge 2
[FORGE-1217] – UIProvider should provide a isGUI() method

Task

[FORGE-1111] – Write a test to ensure that furnace fails deployment if multiple containers are specified

Sub-task

[FORGE-1171] – Port the JMS commands
[FORGE-1174] – Port the JSTL commands
[FORGE-1175] – Port the JTA commands
[FORGE-1176] – Port the JAX-RS (REST) commands
[FORGE-1177] – Port the Servlet commands
[FORGE-1178] – Port the JAX-WS (SOAP) commands
[FORGE-1179] – Port the Bean validation commands

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Lincoln Baxter, III
JBoss, by Red Hat
lbaxter at redhat.com

"If you want something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."