Main improvements of 0.5.0 are:

- bug corrections and new tools for development support. More about these tools to follow.

- CXF integration, support of JAX-WS 2.0

- Major improvements of persistence API

Main objective of the new release is a major improvement of Spring integration by the use of XML snippets to configure NexOpen framework. Smart configurations that encapsulate Spring: all persistence power, no code frills.

Greetings!

• [NXIDE-2] - Slow behaviour in NexOpen IDE in a Mac OS X
• [NXIDE-4] - Bad behaviour with Spring CRUD Controller template
• [NXIDE-7] - Unexpected NullPointer exception in JBoss ApplicationServer eclipse integration
• [NXIDE-8] - Exception occured while evaluating EL in tag formField (not required attributes are required?)
• [NXIDE-9] - weblogic.application.ModuleException: An application-scoped data source (JDBCsimple) cannot specify a scope of Global when application is versioned (simple-enterprise-1#@1.0.1)
• [NXIDE-13] - “Maven clean install” doesn’t apply profiles when is launched from Server’s View
• [NXIDE-28] - adding a project to continuum server via IDE wizard
• [NXIDE-67] - Can not install simple
• [NXIDE-72] - Create servers wizard does not add projects marked for
• [NXIDE-77] - Check correct behaviour of Retrotranslator in several environments
• [NXIDE-80] - Several java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError found in Tomcat with web services support in a WEB NexOpen project
• [NXIDE-81] - not downloading archetypes when creating new NexOpen projects
• [NXIDE-82] - opening beanrefcontext.xml with modules editor in sample project simple 1.0.1 from tags
• [NXIDE-83] - Incorrect exclusion into the Workflow modules
• [NXIDE-90] - java.lang.NullPointerException promoting method to a business facade interface
• [NXIDE-92] - Not correct clean of WEB-INF/lib in NexOpen web projects
• [NXIDE-93] - Error in New Service End Point wizard
• [NXIDE-94] - When creating a new web project for tomcat 6 runtime, missing two libraries: geronimo_spec.1.0.jar and common-beanutils
• [NXIDE-95] - Error in generated JSP from New Spring MVC Controller wizard
• [NXIDE-96] - Bad dependency in jaxws 2.0 for 0.4.x modules
• [NXIDE-99] - java.lang.NullPointerException changing version project into the NexOpen Lifecycle property
• [NXIDE-100] - Enhacement of hibernate reverse engineering mojo for Struts2
• [NXIDE-101] - Exception Handler in Spring Controller cause an error
• [NXIDE-103] - Images at value lists
• [NXIDE-107] - Add commons bean utils into the ValueList support
• [NXIDE-112] - NullPointerException executing a valuelist that has correct resultset
• [NXIDE-113] - hibernate.cfg.xml crashes Modules Editor
• [NXIDE-114] - Add module does not work in a web project : commons-collections has a not proper version ${collections.version}

Improvement

• [NXIDE-5] - Allow JPA support in ServciceComponents
• [NXIDE-12] - Modules Editor must refresh profile Information
• [NXIDE-14] - Problems hardeploying Applications in Bea WL are not considered
• [NXIDE-39] - For newbie users, when building workspace, no errors displayed
• [NXIDE-73] - Only allow j2se 5.0 and 6.0 for nexopen projects
• [NXIDE-74] - bad behaviour of Business Process Manager support in Business Facades
• [NXIDE-108] - Avoid inclusion of identifier and version fields into the maven2 hibernate reverse mojo
• [NXIDE-109] - when creating a new war project
• [NXIDE-115] - Better deal with struts2 integration : support for spring

New Feature

• [NXIDE-43] - Create a nature an builder for nexopen projects
• [NXIDE-116] - Add Logging Frameworks support at Service Component creation

Task

• [NXIDE-34] - Add action ‘promote to interface’ in Eclipse outline view for Facades components
• [NXIDE-76] - integrate log4j as logging facility in nexopen ide
• [NXIDE-79] - Maven2 POM editor finished
• [NXIDE-88] - Create Hibernate Reverse Engineering support in NexOpen IDE
• [NXIDE-89] - Check correct behaviour of Maven2 MOJO for Reverse Engineering (Hibernate Tools)
• [NXIDE-97] - Check correct behaviour of workflow support in 0.4.x projects
• [NXIDE-110] - WAR deploying in tomcat 5.5

There is also the chance to download the API in a zip file, for your convenience.

• It corrects 14 bugs from previous version, mainly on web services support.
• It also enhances and documents the acegi siteminder integration.
• Finally it provides of facades and application services support.

Please, continue using our forum and publishing bugs on jira in order to improve the project. And check out the confluence wiki, it has more knowledge than ever!

NexOpen Tools is a set of wizards, plugins and archetypes to enhance Eclipse for easier NexOpen framework projects development.

From this distribution, NexOpen Tools will be handled from an Eclipse Update Site, instead of
having a full distribution of Eclipse.

1.  NexOpen Tools 1.0.0-m1 gives full support to J2EE 1.4 based projects, and partially to JEE 5.0 based ones.
2. It provides of tools for working with NexOpen based rojects and its architecture (Facades, Application Services, Resources…)
3. Easy AJAX development with DWR integration.
4. Spring MVC, Struts 1.x and Struts 2.x wizards to speed the development up.
5. JBoss Application Server, Bea Weblogic and Tomcat integration, for better testing and debugging options.
6. Develop J2SE 1.4.x applications with Retrotranlator tools.
7. jBPM support. Model your workflows with our tools.

Download NexOpen Tools 1.0.0-m1 from our site: http://www.nexopen.org/update_1.0.x/m1, and speed up your work!

In addition to, NexOpen site has been reviewed to keep all the information up-to-date. Check out the features , documentation and downloads pages!

Download the NexOpen framework 0.4.0 today and don’t hesitate to contact us

• jBoss 4.0.x
• jBoss 4.2.x
• Bea Weblogic 9.2
• Tomcat 5.0.x
• Tomcat 5.5.x
• Tomcat 6.0.x

We also have experimented to give support to jdk 1.4.2 based servers, using the opensource project retrotranslator. We proved some applications can perfectly work in IBM Websphere 6.0. We plan to add this integration into NexOpen Tools, in our next version 1.0.0-m1 of Tools.

For more info about application servers compatibility, check our wiki

• Tomcat 6.0, which adds support for JSP 2.1 and Servlet 2.5
• JBoss Transactions (Arjuna) JTA 4.2.3 as the default transaction monitor
• The latest Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 implementation

This application server joins to the other two NexOpen’s certified ones, Bea Weblogic 9.2 and JBoss 4.0.x