News

25/08/10Geomajas @ FOSS4G 2010

FOSS4G is regarded as the biggest and most influential conference for free and open source software for geospatial. That is why it is an important happening for the Geomajas project to increase visibility.

17/08/10Geomajas 1.7.1 released

Thanks to the hard work of our community, we have been able to release Geomajas 1.7.1.

The biggest improvements occured in the plug-in system. Plug-ins are now automatically registered, allowing extensions and overwriting base services. Plug-ins register their dependencies and Geomajas checks at startup whether the dependent modules are available and compatible. The plug-ins now have an independent release cycle to allow improvements to be easily released.

17/08/10Request for reference projects

On the forum (http://www.geomajas.org/node/330), a request for reference projects has started. The idea is that providing such projects will increase publicity for everyone involved.

The Geomajas team will create a reference projects page on this website in the near future where all projects will be displayed. 

So, let us know what you have done with the Geomajas framework, and we will let the rest of the world know ;-)

12/08/10Geomajas on maven central

Geomajas artefacts are now being synchronized to the maven central repository.

This will be in effect for all released versions from Geomajas 1.7 onwards.

10/08/10Geomajas 1.7.1 in staging


As a quick follow up on the rejected 1.7.0 release, Geomajas 1.7.1 is currently in staging ready for testing. If no major issues or backward incompatibilities are found, by 8:00 AM August 11th, Geomajas 1.7 will be a fact.

 

30/07/10Community appeal, help build the roadmap

We want to update the roadmap and need your cooperation.

Please help the project to tell us which features you want to see implemented and how you want the project to evolve.

Join the discussion on our forum or the majas-dev mailing list.

26/07/10Geomajas 1.7.0 rejected due to backward incompatibility

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.

08/07/10Geomajas 1.7.0 in staging

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.

22/04/10Geomajas 1.6.0 stable released

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:

 

 

30/03/10Scheduled Downtime on Friday

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.

29/03/10Geomajas 1.5.4 released

 

Geomajas 1.5.4 is a release candidate for the stable 1.6.0 release. It shows an impressive list of 127 solved issues!

18/03/10Code sprint results

From March 8th till March 12th, we had a very successful (and fun) Code Sprint in Gent, Belgium.

The team managed to close 45 JIRA issues including new features, showcase samples and bug fixes for the 1.5.4 Release. Major Progress was made in the following areas:

 

17/03/10IRC meeting regarding Geomajas status

See the full IRC logs on our forum http://www.geomajas.org/node/220

09/03/10Geomajas enters OSGeo incubation

Today we have the privilige to announce to you the acceptance of the Geomajas open source project as an OSGeo incubation project.

23/02/10Geomajas 1.5.3 community preview released

The Geomajas project is proud to release Geomajas 1.5.0, a technology preview showcasing the progress we are making towards our next stable build.

The major advances in this version include: