Obviously the bad news is that Geomajas 1.7.0 has been rejected by the community because of a backward incompatibility that was found when using the Dojo face.
The good news on the other hand is that the system works. This was our first attempt at releasing a new version of Geomajas by using the staging methodology. While in staging, many users did indeed try out this new version, and thereby discovered this compatibility issue.
The next 1.7 release attempt is already being prepared, so expect to hear from us soon.
The Geomajas team is proud to announce the latest Geomajas release (1.7.0). This new release focuses in the first place on a new and updated plug-in system where all plug-ins are now independent projects. From Geomajas 1.7.0 on, all plug-ins (and faces) will have their own release cycles. This means that a bug in one of the plug-ins does not require a complete new release of the whole Geomajas project.
Finally, after many months of hard work, we rejoice the arrival of a new stable Geomajas release. Ever since it was first decided to switch focus from javascript (Dojo) to Java (GWT), many obstacles had to be overcome. Now that we are here, it must be said that is was worth it.
Geomajas has been totally transformed into a Java-only, modular, enterprise framework, based upon Spring. The most important changes are:
On Friday April 2nd 2010 many of the Geomajas systems and services will be unavailable between 8:00 and 10:00 for maintenance purposes. We aim to minimize downtime and apologize for the inconvenience.
