Geomajas 1.7.1 released

2010-08-17T20:47:31Z

Thanks to the hard work of the Geomajas community, we are pleased to announce the release of Geomajas 1.7.

Geomajas already was a all-Java, modular, enterprise framework based upon Spring. 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.

The release includes the following improvements:

general
- API contract check is now done automatically
- assure only free sample data is used
- include license info in all jars, assure all modules also have source and javadoc on deploy
- improved documentation (and split-up per plug-in)
- snapshot builds are now available from http://apps.geomajas.org/nexus/content/groups/latest/
- assure copyright/license information for dependencies is included
- more : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&version=10213

backend 1.7.1
- provide mechanism for plug-ins to contribute to the Geomajas context and provide information about themselves and the dependencies
- upgrade to GeoTools 2.6.3 and some other libaries to more recent versions
- allow pipelines to be extended
- allow all scale related configuration options to us 1:x notation
- allow EPSG codes to be added
- provide dispatcher servlet, a mechanism to add servlet endpoints through spring configuration
- more : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10219&version=10335

GWT face 1.7.1
- possibility to have a default or fallback controller on the map
- scroll zoom now considers mouse position
- introduction of a abstract CircleController
- add a zoom to rectangle option to the map's navigation addon
- add double click possibility to the pan controller, so that it is able to zoom in by double clicking
- improvements in GWT archetype
- more : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10210&version=10322

Hibernate layer 1.7.2
- see : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10215&version=10331

Geotools layer 1.7.1
- see : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10213&version=10338

WMS layer 1.7.1
- see : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10217&version=10360

OpenStreetMap layer 1.7.1
- see : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10216&version=10324

Google layer 1.7.1
- support for Google terrain layer
- more : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10214&version=10339

staticsecurity plugin 1.7.1
- rename springsecurity to staticsecurity to avoid confusion
- Enable enter key for login window
- more : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10218&version=10328

dojo face 1.5.7
- see : http://jira.geomajas.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10200&version=10310

The sample applications have also been released to use the newest versions.

Geomajas 1.6.0 released

2010-04-28T12:36:56Z

After many months of hard work, the Geomajas project is very proud to announce a new stable Geomajas release.

Geomajas has been totally transformed into a modular, enterprise framework, based upon Spring. The most important changes are:

Modular Architecture

The Geomajas framework is now fully modular with a clear definition of a public API and extension points. This improves the overall system design and increases clarity and consistency. A lot of attention was given to assuring separation of concerns and break-up in clear responsibilities.

The modular architecture also benefits extensibility because it allows for easy creation of additional modules and plug-ins.

The public API describes both the supported/stable API as well as an experimental API. The latter allows the Geomajas community to peak ahead and give early feedback on future API extensions.

GWT face: Google Web Toolkit for the Client Side

In addition to the dojo face, a GWT face has been added. This allows engineers to develop, test and debug applications in a single programming environment (Java).

It also helps in establishing cross-browser compatibility, as GWT solves many of the differences in browser behaviour.
Users have access to a very extensive GWT showcase, samples and documentation.

Advanced Security

The new Geomajas security allows users to configure and apply access and restrictions on a fine grained level. Geomajas now supports both functional constraints (commands, tools) as well as data constraints (layers, geographical extent, features, attributes). Authentication and authorisation can be administered through multiple external services.

System Configuration using Spring

Leveraging an industry standard technology, the Spring Framework, the overall flexibility and extensibility is substantially improved. Users can configure many aspects of the system, including client and server side features, transaction management and security.

Services for Rendering and Feature Handling

Geomajas now features state-of-the-art process configuration and extensibility thanks to the introduction of configurable pipelines and services for rendering and feature handling. This also enables the introduction of caching, additional rendering steps, spatial manipulation and analysis, etc.

Technical Documentation

As part of a well defined API, extensive javadoc and a user guide (120+ pages) are provided. The latter covers amongst others the architecture, configuration guidelines, information on faces and explains how to extend Geomajas.

Geomajas 1.5.3 community preview released

2010-02-24T07:31:11Z

The Geomajas project is proud to release Geomajas 1.5.3, a technology preview showcasing the progress we are making towards our next stable build.

The major advances in this version include:

* Addition of a configurable security. Rights can be configured on layer level, feature level, attribute level, command level and even toolbar level.
* Spring configuration has been split up into a general server-side configuration and a clien-side configuration.
* Stabilization of the server-side API and introduction of an experimental API.
* Numerous bugfixes (78 in total)

For the full list of changes, see http://jira.geomajas.org/jira/browse/MAJ/fixforversion/10270
Documentation for this release can be found at http://files.geomajas.org/maven/1.5.3/geomajas/userguide.html
Download links can be found at http://www.geomajas.org/geomajas_release_1.5.3
For the next release we plan to include the following features:

* Rendering Pipeline
* Lazy Feature Loading

Please note that this is an unstable release, all the new features since the previous stable release may still change and we some new bugs may have been introduced.
If you want to help us, join the discussions on the developer list, list bugs in jira and make feature requests in our fora. See http://www.geomajas.org/gis-development.

New website

2009-04-08T09:55:30Z

The last few weeks we have been busy revamping the geomajas website! If all goes well, the new website should arrive within 2 weeks from now. But that is not all. A new server has been provided by GeoSparc, to store the subversion repository, the Jira issue tracker, the maven repository, a Tomcat with the latest geomajas samples etc.

We should have the server fully operational at roughly the same time as the new website, so we're pretty excited. When the new website arrives, you will notice a few changes in the direction that we're taking geomajas. But more on that later ;-)

geomajas version 1.3.1 released

2009-02-12T15:51:38Z

Finally the new release of the open source GIS framework geomajas is a fact! Version 1.3.1 is the first bugfix release on the previous 1.3.0 release, that also has a few graphical updates to make it a bit more sexy. The main focus for this release was to enhance all our widgets. Secondly we re-evaluated the filtering mechanism, and redesigned it using our own complex featuremodels in combination with geotools and CQL.

Download it for free on http://www.geomajas.org/

CASCADOSS demo

2009-02-09T08:38:48Z

The geomajas team recently visited the CASCADOSS conference in Leuven, Belgium. As a presentation, we had prepared a demo, based on the latest snapshot of version 1.3.0 (which will soon be released as version 1.3.1).
For anyone who might be interested, you can check out the demo on geomajas.org : http://www.geomajas.org/majas-demo/

Looking for beta testers

2008-12-16T08:36:38Z

Geomajas 1.3 has already been used in some projects now. The development team has the ambition to release it as the stable version 1.4.0 in February next year.

To get as much feedback as possible to release a stable version we are looking for Beta testers. People who are interested in testing the framework can post their issues in our issue tracker.

(for the moment our issue tracker is hosted by dfc software engineering at: http://support.dfc.be/jira\)

You can also post your comments or questions on the mailing list: majas-dev@geomajas.org.

Geomajas: version 1.3.0 released!

2008-12-02T16:19:15Z

Geomajas is a web mapping GIS software with editing capabilities, and support for complex relation models in the browser. Geomajas has an open architecture enabling easy sharing, integrating and updating of GIS data.

Finally the long awaited version 1.3.0 of Geomajas is ready and available for download. The main focus for this version was internationalization and speed. To this end there are serverside coordinate transformations, there is a new tile-based caching system, there is OpenStreetMap compatibility, a complex attribute model (1 to n, m to n, inheritance), and lots lots more.

As for browser compatibility, we are glad to announce that we now support Internet explorer 6.0 and above, FireFox 2.0, FireFox 3.0 and Google Chrome!

One last issue i would like to address are the new online samples. They have received a little overhaul, and we now have a small "taste of things to come" sample added, that shows some of the more imaginative possibilities of the usage of Dojo widgets in combination with our own widgets.

Enjoy!

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