diff --git a/_posts/2012-12-04-resthub-2.markdown b/_posts/2012-12-04-resthub-2.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb56deb --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2012-12-04-resthub-2.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: RESThub 2.0 Spring and Backbone.js stack released +author: bclozel +tags: [resthub, java] +published: true +--- + +We are pleased to announce the second major release of RESThub! + +![RESThub 2](/public/img/2012-12-04-resthub-2/spring+backbone.png) + +RESThub 2.0 stack is based on **Spring and Backbone.js**, and is designed to build HTML5 applications easily and efficiently. RESThub focuses on modular web applications, made of **stateless REST web services** and **client-side state managed by MVVM JavaScript clients**. + +Spring stack +------------ + +RESThub Spring stack 2.0 is based on: + - Java 7 by default, but Java 6 is fine too + - Tomcat 7 + - Spring 3.1 including Profile and JavaConfig support + - Spring MVC 3.1 and Jackson 2 for REST webservices (including full handling of Object Graphs with cyclic references) + - SQL and NoSQL persistence with Spring Data + - Logging with SLF4J and Logback + - Maven 3.0 is the reference build tool used + - TestNG, FEST Fluent Assertions 2 and Mockito for testing + +It provides the following features: + - Guidelines for your project and configuration layout + - Project templates for Spring + Backbone.js web applications (simple or multi-module) + - Zero config support for JPA (with automatic JPA Entity scanning) or MongoDB databases + - Generic CRUD webservices (XML and JSON by default) with builtin Exception to HTTP response mapper + - Helpers for running web tests + - Easy to use HTTP client based on AsyncHttplient with OAuth 2.0 support + - Logging bridge allow to send Javascript logs to the server + - High performance and easy to monitore [RPC mechanism based on RabbitMQ and Hessian](https://github.com/resthub/spring-amqp-hessian) + - [Spring MVC router](https://github.com/resthub/springmvc-router) allow to use routes à la Ruby On Rails/Play Framework + +Backbone Spring stack 2.0 artifacts are available on Maven Central. + +[Reference documentation](http://resthub.org/spring-stack.html) | [Javadoc](http://resthub.org/javadoc/2.0) | [Tutorial](http://resthub.org/tutorial/spring.html) | [Sources](https://github.com/resthub/resthub-spring-stack) + +Backbone.js stack +----------------- + +RESThub Backbone.js stack 2.0 is based on: + - Backbone.js 0.9.2 + carefully selected extensions + - Powerful Pageable/Sortable datagrig with Backbone Datagrid (made by Loïc Frering, a RESThub developer) + - Get and set relations (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one) for Backbone models with Backbone relational + - Form validation with Backbone Validation + - Parameters support on view routing with Backbone Query Parameters + - Require.js 2.0 for script loading including JS/CSS optimizer + - Handlebars 1.0 for templating + - jQuery 1.7 + - Twitter Bootstrap 2.1 + - Asynchronous calls with Async + - Dispatching keyboard shortcuts with Keymaster + - Parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates and times with Moment + +If provides the following features: + - Guidelines for your project layout + - Project templates for easy project bootstrapping + - Resthub.View extends Backbone.View to provide the following enhancements: + - Default rendering implementation based on Handlebars + - $root attribute used to specify the container root element where the view should be attached (since $el is the view itself) + - Default template attribute with context management + - Zombie view and event handler cleanup + - A new populateModel function that automatically populate a model objet from form values (mapped on element names) + - A client to server Javascript logger, a simple but lifesaver feature when your application run in production + - Additional Handlebars helpers + - A Require.js/Handlebars plugin + - A simple Publish/Subscribe mechanism + +[Download](https://github.com/downloads/resthub/resthub-backbone-stack/resthub-backbone-stack-2.0.0.zip) | [Reference documentation](http://resthub.org/backbone-stack.html) | [Tutorial](http://resthub.org/tutorial/backbone.html) | [Sources](https://github.com/resthub/resthub-backbone-stack) + +Try it now! +----------- + +You can try now the [example "Todo application" live](http://resthub.org/todo/) and [take a look at the code](https://github.com/resthub/todo-backbone-example). + +[Reference documentation](http://resthub.org/) is available for both Spring and Backbone stacks. + +Feel free to contact us on [RESThub discussion group](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/resthub-dev) if you need help or want to send us some feedbacks. + +The rationale behind RESThub 2.0 +-------------------------------- + +RESThub is all about **integrating and bundling frameworks with tools, best practices and documentation**. The RESThub team works everyday with those frameworks on high traffic, enterprise-grade applications for their customers. + +That's why **we value developer experience** on those libraries and despise the "Not Invented Here" syndrome above all. + +RESThub is a two-part web framework: you can use the JavaScript stack part with a Ruby-on-Rails or Node.js backend; or you could use the Java stack with an Angular.js frontend! + +We strongly believe in Open Source Software, so the whole thing is available under the Apache License 2.0 on [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.resthub%22) and [Github](http://github.com/resthub/). + +Roadmap +------- + +Expected new features for upcoming RESThub 2.1 are : + - Uprade to Spring 3.2 + - Upgrade to Backbone.js 1.0 + - Bean Validation + Backbone Validation plugin : do not duplicate your validation anymore on client side + - RESThub Identity manager : User/Group/Role webapp with Backbone.js GUI (alpha version available [here](https://github.com/resthub/resthub-identity)) + - ElasticSearch integration + - Websocket support + - Improved Exception to HTTP response mapper (JSON/XML serialization of i18n aware messages) + - More examples applications + +Contributions and feedbacks are welcomed !!! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/img/2012-11-28-resthub-2/spring+backbone.png b/public/img/2012-11-28-resthub-2/spring+backbone.png index a6a6f46..ed15752 100644 Binary files a/public/img/2012-11-28-resthub-2/spring+backbone.png and b/public/img/2012-11-28-resthub-2/spring+backbone.png differ diff --git a/public/img/2012-12-04-resthub-2/spring+backbone.png b/public/img/2012-12-04-resthub-2/spring+backbone.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a4fe6c Binary files /dev/null and b/public/img/2012-12-04-resthub-2/spring+backbone.png differ