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26 October 2005 - Jakarta HiveMind 1.1 Released

The final 1.1 release of the Jakarta HiveMind services and configuration microkernel has been released.

HiveMind is an inversion-of-control container that mixes in a powerful approach to modularization and configuration. It is ideally suited for building richly extensible frameworks. Tapestry 4.0 is built on HiveMind. HiveMind overlaps in functionality with the very popular Spring framework, but offers a significant number of its own wrinkles ... and integrates very cleanly with Spring.

Release 1.1 offers a significant number of improvements over 1.0. A few highlights:

• Services and configurations may now be private to a module, and not directly accessible from other modules.
• Lightweight initialization allows properties of an object instance to be configured without having to make the object a full-fledged service.
• The locale is now tracked on a per-thread basis, and may be changed at any time.
• Services may now be defined in terms of a Java class, not a Java interface.
• Groovy may be used, instead of XML, to define services and configurations.
• Modules may define a package; class names appearing in the XML may omit that package.
• Streamlined XML with much smarter defaults for many attributes.
• Support for AOP Alliance style method interception.
• Services may now be exposed via JMX for remote control, and to monitor performance.
• Much improved auto-wiring of services implementations, including automatic dependency injection via constructor parameters.
• Support for building services around the Gang Of Four Strategy and Chain of Command patterns.
• Configurations data may now be injected as a Map rather than a List, by defining the attribute used as a key.
• Conditional contribution, controlled by the presence (or absence) of classes, or JVM system properties.
• Service proxies may now be serialized and deserialized.
• HiveDoc has been improved, both in content and in presentation.

Full details are available in the change log.

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Project Info -- Apache HiveMind

Apache HiveMind is an services and configuration microkernel. Its features are also referred to as Inversion of Control (IoC) Container or Lightweight Container. The adoption of HiveMind in an application ensures the use of certain design principles which improve encapsulation, modularization, testability and reusability.

Releases can be downloaded from http://hivemind.apache.org/download.html

Project Website	http://hivemind.apache.org/
Programming Languages	Java
Categories	library
Mailing Lists	http://hivemind.apache.org/mail-lists.html
Bug/Issue Tracker	http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVEMIND
Project Management Committee	Apache HiveMind

Access to the source code:

Browse	http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/hivemind/
SVN Direct	http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hivemind/