We are pleased to officially introduce Tynamo project and announce our first releases and immediate availability of tapestry-model, tapestry-hibernate-seedentity, tapestry-conversations and tynamo-archetype modules. Tynamo is a continuation of Trails framework and is based on Tapestry 5.

Tynamo features:

• tapestry-model provides a model-driven development and a CRUD-framework for Tapestry 5
• tapestry-hibernate-seedentity allows you to seed your database in an object-oriented manner
• tapestry-conversations provide a conversational scope

Get your hands dirty now and try out Tynamo's archetype, following our Quick start. Tynamo project home is at http://tynamo.org. Welcome!

Feel free to link to us, we are just getting started and we have many other modules, such as security and REST, waiting under our wings so stay tuned for more releases! Meet us via IRC at #tynamo on irc.codehaus.org or subscribe to user@tynamo.codehaus.org at http://xircles.codehaus.org/my/email/subscriptions to stay up-to-date.

Enjoy,

Tynamo team

Hope the headline generates some buzz but I have to first correct myself: Trails is not dead per se, rather Trails 1.x is in maintenance mode and Trails 2 (Tapestry 5 based version) has been renamed to Tynamo. Here's the full scoop (an edited version of what I had posted about it on trails-user list earlier):

Behind the scenes (actually on the dev list) we've been mulling over our strategy regarding Tapestry5. We lost the trailsframework.org

domain over a year ago (we, the current committers, never owned it so it was complicated anyway) and ever since we've been in a stalemate

about what to do with it. We finally decided a few months ago that the easiest option is to just rename the project and launch Trails 2

under a new name - Tynamo (still hosted at Codehaus). This is unannounced but the move is well under way and at this point we've

moved the codebase to a new repository and renamed the relevant modules and packages. Overall, I think there's a pretty good chance

that we'll have the initial Tynamo release out before the end of the year. We'll formally announce what I just said later.

So please, come visit us at http://tynamo.org. We are busily working on the new site and getting ready for our first releases. Snapshots are already available at http://ci.repository.codehaus.org/org/tynamo/. Obviously much of the code is the same as what we had in Trails except for the rename so it's not like we are starting from scratch. The source repository is already migrated, the new domain is up and our continuous builds are succesfully running so we are already back in business with Tynamo. By the time we are announcing Tynamo project to larger audience later this year (hopefully!), we should have multiple modules lined up for the release as well as decent documentation and examples to go with them.

As mentioned, Tapestry 4.x based Trails 1.x is now in maintenance mode but if there are any serious issues or questions regarding it, we are more than happy to support you. Many thanks to Codehaus and Ben especially for patiently working through our support request during the transition.

The Trails development team is pleased to announce the trails-conversations-0.0.1 release for Tapestry 5!

An implementation of conversation-within-page concept for Tapestry 5

Have you ever wished to have a scope longer than a request but shorter than session?

Have you ever spent hours optimizing your pages just to avoid the use of sessions?

Have you ever wondered why you have to elaborately describe your page flows in a lengthy XML format, when all you want to do is to make your objects survive through redirect-after-post pattern?

Don't you just wish that your web framework would automatically clean up the session-persisted objects once the user is done using them?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, trails-conversations is for you!

More information at: [Conversations+in+Trails]

Changes in this version include:

New features:

o Initial implementation of ConversationModerator component Issue: TRAILS-176.

o Initial implementation of conversation-within-page Issue: TRAILS-175.

Fixed Bugs:

o Wiki example does not work Issue: TRAILS-171.

o Conversations don't work at all Issue: TRAILS-170.

Usage in your Maven project as follows:

<dependency>

<groupId>org.trailsframework</groupId>

<artifactId>trails-conversations</artifactId>

<version>0.0.1</version>

</dependency>

(May require a few hours to pass before the release is synched up from codehaus repository to repo1.maven.org)

Or, for a manual installation, you can download trails-conversations-0.0.1 here:

http://repository.codehaus.org/org/trailsframework/trails-conversations/0.0.1/trails-conversations-0.0.1.jar

Enjoy!

Sorry people, the trunk may be a bit unstable for some time. Why? Alejandro has started a furious effort of coding Trails 2.0 and merging in T5! In the meantime, I've been enjoying development with the superb ajax features of T4.x series (eventlisteners, async forms etc.) With that said, we had an interesting discussion on #trails over IRC, here's an excerpt (Alejandro aka billy):

Just like that, only half a year behind the schedule (practically nothing in open-source circles) we are releasing Trails 1.2.1! This version integrates with Tapestry 4.1.5 and will be the last major release based on T4. The release represent maturization of Trails codebase and hard work solely by Alejandro. The undersigned has mostly been enjoying the fruits of this work and meanwhile using the superb ajax-features of the matured T4 codebase, on top of a Trails-based application, how else. The release contains more changes under the covers than the Release history shows, and for most Trails users should be a painless upgrade. Enjoy!

Trails 1.2.2 is still planned for the 1.x line, but waiting under the wings for the upcoming Tapestry 4.1.6 and a few other tricks Alejandro may have in his sleeve.