Development Status of AgileSites 2

AgileSites is currently used in two large projects by Sciabarra.com team and is undergoing under a large development effort.

 While we have not yet a release date for the version 2, a lot of work has been done (you can see some of the artifacts in http://github.com/agilesites/)

This is the current todo list that will lead to version 2.

Installer

The new binary installer

• (DONE) automated installation of Sites with silent installer
• (DONE) downlaoder for WebCenter Sites from the Oracle WebSite
• (DONE) packing with the IzPack installer
• (TODO) install agilesites2 with the installer too

Build System

Refactoring of the build, that is actually the engine of  the framework

• (DONE) split in the build multiple projects on github.com/agilesites
• (DONE) migrate the build to an agilesites plugin
• (DOING) publishable jars
• (DONE) a javascript compiler using rhino
• (TODO) embedding the javascript compiler in the build to write templates in javascript
• (TODO) improve scaffolding input system using a better dialog

API

Expanding the api to add more features.

• (DONE) a new api for content modelling in Java
• (DONE) a new api for Engage
• (DONE) import of statics as assets
• (DONE) finger printing for static assets
• (TODO) create  startmenus and treetab in Java
• (TODO) migrate the current demos from CSDT to the new api

Documentation

A great framework requires great documentation.

• (DONE) a new enviroment to write documentation
• (DOING) review the tutorial for version 2
• (TODO) new content modelling documentation