[seam-dev] Seam 3.0.0 Beta 1

[Jozef Hartinger]

Yes, I already implemented support for FreeMarker and Apache Velocity 
since these were a few lines of code. Thanks for mentioning Seam 
Renderer, I completely missed that.

On 01/05/2011 03:08 PM, Jason Porter wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 06:43, Jozef Hartinger<jharting at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> For Seam REST there are several minor code changes planned. Besides,
>> there is some work to be done docs+examples but this can be postponed.
>> The most challenging part is implementing headless facelets rendering
>> which may or may not get into the next release based on how it goes.
>> Otherwise, Jan 21 seems OK from my point of view.
>>
>> Btw, talking about facelets, isn't anyone planning on implementing the
>> same thing? I mean backporting the Renderer component from Seam 2. This
>> component allows facelets to be rendered outside of the JSF lifecycle.
>> Certainly, we’ll need this component outside of REST - at least for
>> mail, excel and pdf modules. Since I am not a JSF expert, any help in
>> this area would be appreciated.
>>
>> J.
>
> Jozef, this has been talked about in the past and we never found
> anyone to take it, nor have we found a good way of doing this.  JSF is
> not very friendly at all when it comes to starting w/o the normal
> ServletContextListener.  Another option would be work that Cody is
> doing in Mail to support Velocity / FreeMarker, or even the Seam
> Render project that Lincoln has.
>
>> On 01/04/2011 12:07 PM, Shane Bryzak wrote:
>>> I hope everyone had a restful end of year break.  Now that we're into
>>> the new year I'd like to make it a top priority to prepare a beta
>>> release for Seam 3.  To do this, we're first going to need at least a
>>> beta release for every single Seam module - the good news though for
>>> module leads, is if your module is already at Beta1 or higher, you don't
>>> need to do anything ;-)
>>>
>>> What I'd like to do is start off with a simple status check from each of
>>> the module leads for each of the modules that are still in alpha.  To
>>> the best of my knowledge this includes the following modules:
>>>
>>> Seam Catch (Alpha3)
>>> Seam International (Alpha 3)
>>> Seam JMS (Alpha 1)
>>> Seam REST (Alpha 2)
>>> Seam Security (Alpha2)
>>> Seam Servlet (Alpha 2)
>>>
>>> If your module is in the above list, can you please describe what is
>>> still required to be done to get your module to a beta release, and
>>> roughly how long you think it will take.  I'll start with the security
>>> module:
>>>
>>> Currently the security module is in good shape, however I'm expecting to
>>> make some further changes to the authenticator API to allow better
>>> integration between the external authentication module and the core
>>> security beans, such as Identity.  I estimate that this work will take
>>> approximately 2 weeks (so should be roughly completed by the 18th of
>>> Jan) after which I'll release beta 1.
>>>
>>> Once we have an update from all module leads then we can start setting
>>> target release dates.  Ideally I would like to get the beta released
>>> before the end of this month, ideally around the 21st.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Shane
>>>
>>>
>>>
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