Released version 0.9.4

Yesterday night I've finally released the version 0.9.4 of Roma Framework. Many news in this release, but the greater satisfaction for me is to watch the project to growth. The download rate is growth along with Wiki page viewed along with external sites that link the Roma Project.

The JMX Monitoring aspect is almost finished, there is the very first preview of "Salsero", the Roma graphical designer tool and much other.

I hope to have a stable version of Salsero for the next Java Day and Java Conference 2006.

Stay tuned!

The FreshMeat effect

After the submission of Roma Project to the FreshMeat web site the XWiki.com hosting service (where Roma's WiKi is hosted) went down. I don't know if the cause was the high traffic reached, but for several hours the server was down. I redirected the domain to the Roma's SourceForge home until XWiki service went up.

My thought was to replace the WiKi service with something other, but now XWiki seems fast enought. I'll give to XWiki another chance ;-)

However, after the FreshMeat earthquake yesterday Roma web has reached 1,371 page view and 20 downloads. Thanks to this interest about the project the SourceForge ranking scaled up reaching the 107th position!

In the next days I'll release the new version with many interesting features...

Stay tuned! ;-)

Roma Framework on the FreshMeat HomePage

I've submitted the RomaFramework project to the FreshMeat website. By now you can see the RomaFramework evolution also in http://freshmeat.net/projects/romaframework/ ;-)

Official Roma Framework domain!

Yesterday I've registered the official domain name for the Roma Framework: http://www.romaframework.org/

This URL points to the Wiki Home Page.

Roma Framework: work in progress

Hi,
after some weeks Roma Framework catched the attention of some people at the last JUG Roma (Java User Group) event.

The community is born. Here the numbers:

• 4 active developers in SourceForge
• More than 1.000 page viewed in a week
• in the Mailing list more than 50 messages in few days

I'm working in a very big refactoring to support multiple aspect management in XML config files. The refactoring is done, but some bugs afflict the behaviour of applications developed with Roma. I hope to commit anythings today.

In these days the community talked about Indexing Aspect (Lucene/Compass framework), Maven 2 (instead of Ant), Designer IDE, JMS Monitoring Aspect, and more.

Stay tuned with Roma if you want to learn how to create Web Applications (and other) in some hours using the most modern technologies such as Ajax and JDO.

Roma Development Mailing List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/romaframework-development

First one presentation of Roma Framework

Tomorrow, 11th april 2006 there will be the first one presentation of Roma Framework to the ProNetics company.

I've ready the slides and a basic car-sharing demo application to show the Roma power. In these days I worked to the wizards (ala Ruby On Rails) for auto generation of project scaffolding and modules (Internal affair ministery asked me this feature to speed up development ;-)).

I'm much satisfied for the work done until now but there are several things to fix up. In the mean time the community are increasing...

The next presentation, and the first very public, there will be to the next JUG-Roma on 27th April 2006.

JUG Roma meeting march 2006

Some hours ago there was the third JUG Roma meeting (For more information goto www.jugroma.it) in Aubay company. Below the sessions:

First talk: 18.00/19.00
Title: Beehive: Easy and speed for J2EE solutions (facilità e velocità per soluzioni JEE)
Speaker: Nino Guarnacci

Second talk: 19.00/20.00
Title: Persistence and JDO 2.0 (Persistenza e JDO 2.0)
Speaker: Luca Garulli (Yes, me...)

After the talk a good dinner in a restaurant near Piramide area, Rome.

Yes, during my talk I've spent 5 minutes to speak a little bit about the "Off Topic" Roma Framework. Is publicity the soul of business? ;-)

Roma Framework's wiki was born

Finally I've chosen a WiKi platform to handle Roma community and documentation: XWiki.com. The software is entirely written in Java and they offer free hosting at acceptable speed (From italy it's quite speed...). What's leave a bad in the mouth is the page layout that cannot be modified, but only at CSS level...

So bear in mind this URL: http://RomaFramework.xwiki.com

Instead I've chosen SourceForge to host the entire SCM of Roma. The main reason is for robustness and quality of service and because now SourceForge supports SVN! ;-)

Starting from today all Roma's news will be published in Wiki Blog at: http://RomaFramework.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/WebHome

Roma: work in progress... part II

Hi,
after days and nights on my notebook I'm proud to test the first alpha version of the Roma Framework. I've build a car-sharing application as demo (I was tired of ordinary blog or java-pet shop applications). The meaning is to discover what I've missed to build a real world application using the MDA Roma framework...

Below the short roadmap for the alpha release planned for this friday 17th March 2006:

1. View aspect: Radio and check button support
2. View aspect: First Page Flow support

And below the roadmap for the next beta version:

1. Workflow aspect: first implementation using Enhydra Shark (http://shark.objectweb.org/)
2. Compile time wizards:
1. Create Project Scaffolding
2. Adding Persistence Aspect (JDO)
3. Adding View Aspect (Echo2/Ajax)
4. Generate CRUD Pattern against any complex entity
3. Dynamic Run-Time Query Generator (something like Atlassian Jira filter)
   

Stay tuned, in the next days I'll publish the first one alpha release ;-)

First ProNetics GoKart contest

Rome, 24th February 2006 time 10:15 PM

On the last thursday Daniele organized the first one ProNetics GoKart contest. Only 6 of us have found the courage to partecipate. Only six proneticsians plus Riccardo (my friend) and Andrea (Daniele's friend)...

The track choosen was the HolyKart (http://www.holykartroma.it), a full rubberized track with perfect equilibrated karts in performances. HolyKart is very professional to simulate a true Grand Prix:

• 10 minutes of free practices
• 10 minutes of qualify, valid for the starting grid
• 8 turns for the real race where anything could happens...
  

I preput that I never see a Kart before and in facts in the free practices my position was the fourth. Then in the qualify my position was go up until the first one, just a blow better than Spizzi.

In the final race after the firs

t one curve I didn't see anyone and it's finished with my kart that cutted the winning post and Spizzi second after 12,79 seconds... and Blade (Daniele) at 17,27... At the end there was the prize giving with podium and medals!

The day after, for the entire day, on my chest flamed the gold medal. I'm forgetting...everybody how wants can ask me free drive lessons... Muahahah Muahaha

See you to the next GoKart contest!