Over on Apache Isis, we’ve just released a new version, 1.3.0, of the framework (core plus supporting components).

There are some major new features in this release; indeed this is probably the most significant release of Isis as a TLP.  Just to highlight some of the main features…

In core, the new features include:

• contributed collections and properties
• view model support (across both Wicket and RO viewers)
• UI layouts defined in JSON files
• better integration and BDD testing support, including Cucumber-JVM integration
• domain services for handling application and user settings service
• domain service providing various developer utilities (eg downloading metamodel)
• domain service incorporating Guava’s EventBus service);
• context-specific autoComplete
• conditional choices
• new annotations: @SortedBy; @CssClass; @PostsPropertyChangedEvent
• helpers for writing contract unit tests and for writing comparable entities
• optimistic locking improvements

In the Wicket viewer, new features include:

• default dashboard
• more sophisticated layouts, with multiple columns
• dynamic reloading of layouts
• sortable table columns
• BlobPanel displaying images
• bookmarkable actions
• upgrade to wicket 6.11.0

In JDO objectstore, new features include:

• better integration/validation between Isis and JDO metamodels
• upgrade to DataNucleus 3.2.7
• better Google App Engine compatibility
• expose JDO PersistenceManager via domain service for more sophisticated use cases

The Restful Objects viewer also had several bug fixes vis-a-vis the RO spec v1.0 (thanks to our GSOC students for highlighting these).

In addition to all that, there is a new “simple” archetype, making it easier to get started.

The full release notes etc are available on the Isis website.