Agorava core version 0.6.1 just hit Maven Central today, it corrected some issues in 0.6.0 and added interesting features.

Release notes

Bug

• [AGOVA-33] – NPE when no OAuthSession producer is found
• [AGOVA-34] – Unserializable exception for OAuthSession on Wildfly 8.0

Enhancement

• [AGOVA-35] – Add Weld 2.0 Test profiles
• [AGOVA-39] – Adopt JBoss Community code formating
• [AGOVA-45] – Switch to a BOM model
• [AGOVA-46] – Officially switch to git flow maven plugin for release

Feature Request

• [AGOVA-36] – No more resetConnection() in 0.6.0
• [AGOVA-37] – Add a Servlet to manage callback in OAuth Dance

What does it mean in plain english? Let’s see.

CDI 1.1 and Weld 2.x support

A big thanks to Aslak Knustsen on this point. He added profiles to launch test with Weld 2.x and correxted some issue with Agorava CDI extension preventing it to run under CDI 1.1.
Agorava now support OpenWebBeans 1.1.7 and Weld from 1.1.5 to 2.0.2. We’ll continue to extends CDI support in next release especially with OpenWebBeans 2.x when it’ll be ready.

Servlet to manage callback in OAuth initialization

An old feature request was achieved in this release the callback servlet that deal with the end of OAuth initialization process. Its default behavior is to close the current window (working for a popup) but you can easily override it to add your behavior.

Dependency Management with maven BOM

Dependencies are now managed by a Maven Bill Of Material, it will allow Agorava users to integrate Agorava dependencies more easily than with a parent pom. You’ll just have to add this to the `dependencyManagement` section of your project :

    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.agorava</groupId>
                <artifactId>agorava-bom</artifactId>
                <version>0.6.1</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement> 

thanks

Again, many thanks to Aslak Knutsen for his help and to George Gastaldi for his feedback and work on PicketLink integration.

What’s next ?

Version 0.7.0 has started (for real this time), we’re going to integrate our own OAuth engine to prepare migration to OAuth client framework and add support to Apache Camel to provide better integration solution (especially for Social Media providing Streaming API).
In the meantime go for :

  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.agorava</groupId>
      <artifactId>agorava-core-impl-cdi</artifactId>
      <version>0.6.1</version>
  </dependency>

check our Getting Started guide and give us your feedback

Agorava core version 0.6.0 just hit Maven Central, even if the release notes are quite short, there are a lot of big improvement in this release.

Release notes

First things first, here are the release notes.

Bug

• [AGOVA-29] – Tests fail with OpenWebBeans

Enhancement

• [AGOVA-23] – Get Rid of JBoss Logging
• [AGOVA-30] – Agorava OAuth 2.0 support doesn't follow rfc6749 (was Agorava doesn't support Empire Avenue)
• [AGOVA-31] – Removing Generics to ease control of the framework

Quite terse isn’t it? Let’s focus on main points

Stop using JBoss Solder Generics: a long story

To ease creation of new modules and end user’s application configuration, Agorava integrated from the beginning a solution to automatically create some generics beans. This solution was based on JBoss Solder Generic Beans extension. As you may know, Solder development was discontinued to be integrated in Apache Deltaspike. I tried 3 times to have this Solder functionality integrated to Deltaspike, but hadn’t enough time and energy to convince Deltaspike tech leader that it could benefit to other CDI framework development projects.
The problem was that Agorava was using Generics and that it was no more supported. First decision was to get this code from Solder and put it in an Agorava module. So we created Agorava-Utils (thanks to Ove Ranheim). In Agorava utils we put our own version of Solder Generics,but there were still issues with this solution, the main one being that Generics in Solder only worked with Weld.
So for his release, we decided to drop Generics and write our own extension system to automatically generate certain beans for each social media. Consequences of this redesign are a lighter code base to main and more important OpenWebBeans compatibility.

OpenWebBeans support

We added profile to test our code code against Apache OpenWebBeans 1.1.7+ (version used in Apache TomEE 1.5.1) and made sure that Socializer:https://github.com/agorava/agorava-socializer (our demo application) perfomed well under TomEE.
Off course Agorava still supports JBoss Weld 1.1.5+ (version present in JBoss AS 7.1.1).
So now Agorava works on the 2 main CDI implementations.

So long Solder, Hello Deltaspike

Leaving JBoss Solder include leaving JBoss Logging. We now use JUL as logging to continue reducing framework’s dependencies. Our new engine that replace Solder, makes use of Apache Deltaspike utility to register new beans when framework gets initialized. If you are interested to see how we use them, pay a visit to AgoravaExtension. I’ll probably write an article on this extension system.

Modules simultaneous release

For the first time, we also release simultaneously, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter module to 0.6.0 version. These release are there to provide modules supporting the new 0.6.0 API.

A fresh documentation

Finally, we updated the getting started guide to add the simplification we introduced with this release. Other documentation will be deliver in the coming week, so stay tuned.

What’s next ?

Version 0.7.0 has started, we’re going to integrate our own OAuth engine to prepare migration to OAuth client framework and add support to Apache Camel to provide better integration solution (especially for Social Media providing Streaming API).
In the meantime go for :

  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.agorava</groupId>
      <artifactId>agorava-core-impl-cdi</artifactId>
      <version>0.6.0</version>
  </dependency>

and give us your feedback