[ANN] Apache Isis version 2.0.0-M5 Released

The Apache Isis team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Isis 2.0.0-M5.

New features in this release include:

* JPA support (including Spring Data integration)

Posted at 12:03PM Mar 28, 2021 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

[ANN] New committer - Jörg Rade

Hi folks,

Posted at 11:31PM Mar 29, 2020 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

[ANN] Apache Isis simpleapp-archetype 1.13.2.1 Released

See the README.adoc (generated by the archetype) for further details.

Posted at 07:17PM Jan 03, 2017 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

RAD RACE 2015: 7 proprietary CASE tools, and Apache Isis

On Sept 25th and 26th we (Jeroen van der Wal & Dan Haywood) took part in the Original RAD Race competition. This is a competition staged each year, this year (as in previous years) hosted and sponsored by Cap Gemini, and held in their offices in Utrecht, Netherlands. 

The competition consists of teams of exactly two team members; there were eight in total. The competition is held under very strict conditions: 8 hours of development on the first day, and a further 4 hours of coding the next. If you do the maths you’ll work out that means a sum total of 24 hours (2 team members x 12 hours), or 3 person-days.

We asked and were granted permission to develop our application as open source; our entry is in a github repo. If you look through the commit history you’ll see that all the work was done in those 12 hours (8 on 25 Sept 2015, a further 4 on 26 Sept). All the other teams used proprietary tools such as NoutBuilder, ThinkWise, Progress, SalesForce, Uniface and Mendix. We were the only open source entry, using Apache Isis (along with supporting modules in Isis Addons); in fact we think we are the first open source entry in the 17 years history of the competition.

OK, we didn’t win…​ but we got the impression we were mid-table, which we think is pretty good in the face of the competition. But you can judge for yourself; either download and build the code, or simply take a look at the various screenshots/our commentary on the README of the repo.

The README also has some of our "learnings" that we concluded from taking part in the competition.

Posted at 03:01PM Oct 03, 2015 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

[ANN] Apache Isis v1.9.0 Released

Posted at 09:49PM Sep 01, 2015 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

Google Open Source blogpost on ASF's GSOC2013 participants

The Google open source blog has just posted the write-up that ASF provided on some of its students for GSOC 2013. I contributed a couple of paragraphs on how Apache Isis' two students, Dimuthu Upeksha and Bhargav Golla, got on.[Read More]

Posted at 06:36AM Oct 07, 2013 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

Marrying DHTMLX with Apache Isis

Announcing the development of a new integration between DHTMLX Javascript library and Apache Isis.[Read More]

Posted at 09:20PM Feb 26, 2013 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

A couple of articles on Isis at SDJournal (free access)

A couple of articles on Apache Isis have just been published by the Software Developers Journal, available for free download.

The first article is a general introduction to Apache Isis, while the second looks in detail at Isis' RESTful APIs.  Both were written by Dan Haywood, Isis' current PMC chair.

To download the journal, you do need to register, but it won't cost you anything other than your email address.

Posted at 05:56PM Feb 13, 2013 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

[ANN] Apache Isis 1.0.0 (Core, 4 components, 1 archetype) Released

The Isis team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Isis Core 1.0.0, along with 4 components and 1 archetype[Read More]

Posted at 08:51PM Dec 24, 2012 by danhaywood in General  |  Comments [2]  | 

InfoQ article introducing Restful Objects (implemented by Apache Isis)

Posted at 11:53AM Jul 19, 2012 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

JQueryMobile demo app now included in the online demo

If you're interested in REST or in mobile apps, you might want to check out two recent blogs posts which highlight a demo app written in JQueryMobile, and consume the RESTful API provided by the Apache Isis json-viewer. 

The first of the blog posts shows some screenshots of the new app in action, while the second post has a fairly detailed code walk-thru of that app.  

Posted at 11:42PM Feb 01, 2012 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

Updated Apache Isis Presentations

If you're thinking of introducing Apache Isis to your co-workers, you might be interested to know that Isis already has an "Introducing Apache Isis" presentation slide deck (in ODP,  PPTX or PPT, PDF slides or notes).  You are free to use this as you will.

I've just updated the deck in line with the forthcoming v0.2.0 release; the most significant new content includes an overview of the main use cases for Apache Isis.  The online demo for Isis also gets a link.

As ever, feedback welcome!

Posted at 07:29AM Dec 16, 2011 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

Online Demo now available

We've finally got around to putting together an online demo of Apache Isis for would-be users to quickly grok what Isis  is all about. If you don't fancy reading any further but just want to play, you can find it here.

Posted at 08:17AM Dec 09, 2011 by danhaywood in General  |   | 

Restful Objects

Now that we have our first release of Apache Isis out of the door, I've been spending some time on Restful Objects, which forms the basis of the JSON viewer within Isis.

The idea of Restful Objects is to provide a standard, generic RESTful interface for domain object models, exposing representations of their structure using JSON and enabling interactions with domain object instances using HTTP GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

The Restful Objects website is a place where the specification will be documented as it evolves, and if you take a look through the spec as it stands you may realize that it's very much based on the idea of a domain model as envisaged by naked objects.   That is:

• the start page provides links to the set of registered services/repositories
• from these services, references to domain object instances can be obtained
• each domain object has properties, collections and actions
• the usual business rules (hiding, disabling and validating) are supported
• actions (idempotent or non-idempotent) can be invoked

More generally, you'll see that all the representations are fully self-describing, opening up the possibility of generic viewers to be implemented if required, eg in languages such as HTML5/Ajax, Flex, Silverlight etc etc.

Alternatively, the representations can be consumed directly by a bespoke application.

One of the nice things about this specification is that it is completely language-independent.  As you might expect, I'll be implementing this specification through the Isis JSON viewer, and using that implementation to refine the spec.  In addition Richard Pawson is hoping to commit to working on a similar implementation for Naked Objects MVC (he's a co-author on the Restful Objects site).

And, if you know of or are the author of another naked objects-style framework, eg written in Ruby or Python, and the idea of Restful Objects interests you, then I'd love to hear from you.

Posted at 01:02PM Aug 03, 2011 by danhaywood in General  |  Comments [1]  |