Aranea Blog

Although we have been silent for the last month or so it was not for the lack of activity. First of all, we are working hard on the integration and have setup both a separate subproject and a ChangeLogic project, so you can track our progress right away. The anonymous SVN access is available through HTTP: http://svn.araneaframework.org/repos/aranea-integration/branches/latest/. The project is still a bit raw and will only run in Sun Application Server (this only concerns JSF examples).

Secondly, we are working on the step-by-step legacy migration and are starting with first projects to be done this way. We will write about the concept and the success stories as soon as we have the latter.

Thirdly, we are working on cleaning up the Aranea request-response model, to allow for easier asynchronous programming as well as localized rendering. This allows for instance to access widgets through JavaScript and render only one widget at a time. This was partially done to support our new TreeWidget, which is an all-AJAX tree view control.

Finally we have a lot of more-or-less innovative improvements that are worked on by both our team and other Webmedia workers. Most of them are done as some kind of University theses and we expect them to be finished around April. You can read about them (briefly) on Jevgeni’s university homepage.

This all is a LOT of work to be done in a little time, which explains the lack of updates on our blog. But expect a lot of good news as well as some unexpected surprises to come up soon.

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