News and Status

This document contains the latest news and status regarding the XDoclet project. It is here you'll find announcements related to XDoclet.

Current Status

In parallel of improving XDoclet 1.2, we are also working on XDoclet 2. Click here for more information. Please note that XDoclet 2 development has just started and that it is still far from useable.

Development on the XDoclet 1.2 codebase is happening on the xdoclet-all module.

Oct 23, 2004 :: XDoclet 1.2.2 Released

Over 130 bug fixes and enhancments since 1.2.1. Many new features including support for J2EE 1.4, EJB 2.1, WSEE, JSF and JDO 2. For a detailed changelog, please refer to XDoclet 1.2.2 Change Log.

May 6, 2004 :: XDoclet 1.2.1 Released

Over 50 bugs fixed since 1.2. For a detailed changelog, please refer to XDoclet 1.2.1 Change Log.

December 20, 2003 :: XDoclet 1.2 Released

It's been a long time coming, but it's here at last. Over 30 bugs fixed since beta 3. For a detailed changelog, please refer to XDoclet 1.2 Change Log.

October 30, 2003 :: XDoclet Shipped with MacOSX Panther XCode Developer Tools

I've just installed Panther and since you don't get stuff like CVS installed by default, I decided to open up the XCode CD and install the developer tools. To my surprise there are some Java tools tucked away including Ant, XDoclet, log4j and JBoss.

Simon and Matt blogged about it.

June 18, 2003 :: XDoclet 1.2 Beta 3 Re-released

Due to a packaging error in this release (XJavaDoc was not included), we decided to re-release XDoclet 1.2 Beta 3.

June 13, 2003 :: XDoclet 1.2 Beta 3 Released

This is the last milestone towards our next big release. Over 160 bugs are fixed. For a detailed changelog, please refer to XDoclet 1.2 Beta 3 Change Log.

May, 2003 :: Award for Business Integration and Data Tools

XDoclet won the Award for Business Integration and Data Tools (SD Magazine 05/2003)!

April, 2003 :: TheServerSide Interviews Aslak Hellesoy on XDoclet

TheServerSide Interviews Aslak Hellesoy on XDoclet.

January 27, 2003 :: JBoss-IDE 1.0 Alpha Released

JBoss-IDE is a new project with the aim to provide a world class IDE for JBoss. Features are:

  • The debugging and monitoring of JBoss servers and the controlling of there life cycles.
  • A very comfortable and sophisticated support for XDoclet.

December 28, 2002 :: XDoclet 1.2 Beta 2 Released

This is the second milestone towards our next big release. Over 50 bugs are fixed. For a detailed changelog, please refer to XDoclet 1.2 Beta 2 Change Log. Happy New Year 2003!

December 27, 2002 :: Java Development with Ant

Near-final release of JavaDevWithAnt demonstrating Ant, XDoclet, Struts, JUnit, Cactus, and Lucene. Very interesting stuff!

December 17, 2002 :: Using Value Objects

Marcus Brito wrote a very detailed document on Value Objects. It is available here.

December 11, 2002 :: xPetStore 2.0 Released

xPetStore: using XDoclet to implement Sun Microsystems' Java Pet Store J2EE BluePrint Application, this application is the ultimate example of XDoclet's power. Also uses Struts and SiteMesh.

December 11, 2002 :: Hibernate Support

As from XDoclet 1.2 Beta 2, XDoclet supports the fantastic Hibernate object/relational persistence and query service for Java.

October 03, 2002 :: XDoclet Team starts using JIRA for Issue Tracking

We decided to use JIRA for issue tracking and project development. We would like to thank Atlassian for their support!

October 02, 2002 :: XDoclet 1.2 Beta 1 Released

This is the first milestone towards our next big release. We believe it's fit for use, but there's probably a few bugs left and the documentation still needs some work. Bug reports, as always, are welcome. For a detailed changelog, please refer to XDoclet 1.2 Beta 1 Change Log.