Riena Platform Project
What is Riena?
The Riena platform is the foundation for building multi-tier enterprise client/server applications. As such Riena is broadening the usage of the service oriented architecture of OSGi/Equinox by providing access to local and remote services in a transparent way. Using this uniform programming model, the components of Riena and the business components of the enterprise application can be developed regardless of their target location. Components are later easily placed on client or server depending on the business requirements.
As an example the Riena user interface components will support a business process oriented user interface visualization and navigation metaphor which can be used as alternative to the default workbench layout.
For more information about Riena, its component and the plan checkout our wiki
News
Riena Release 1.1.0.0 is here as part of Galileo (24 June 2009)
Release 1.1.0.0 is final and available for download. The Wiki page Getting Started contains the download links and all that. For a list of features that very added since 1.0.0 look at New and Noteworthy section.
Riena is participating in the Galileo release train
Details about currently available milestones can be found in Getting Started.
Riena has published its first Release 1.0.0 (30 January 2009)
Release 1.0.0 is final and available for download. The Wiki page Getting Started contains the download links and all that. Only very little has changed since RC2 but they are documented in our New and Noteworthy section. With this Release we leave Incubator status.
Milestone 1.0.0.RC2 was published (23 January 2009)
RC2 is the second Release Candidate of the 1.0.0 Release. It is also the planned last Release Candidate before the Release itself. We have also now branched the codebase so there are no current plans to make any more bugfixes before the Release. The Release Review is on the 28.January 2009. The code will be released shortly after that. As usual go to our Getting Started Wiki page so get the download links and all that. Only a few things have changed since RC1 but they are documented in our New and Noteworthy section.
Milestone 1.0.0.RC1 was published (15 January 2009)
RC1 is the first Release Candidate for the upcoming first Release 1.0.0 at the end of the month. So we did a lot of changes to satisfy checkstyle warning, findbugs warnings and checked existing TODOs. This version is the foundation for the release. We will continue to do testing with it and release another RC2 on the 23rd of January. The download is a usual in the wiki under Getting Started. RC1 is available as target platform for Windows, Mac and Linux (~ 31 MB) and as zip that only contains the Riena bundles and features (~ 5.4 MB). New and Noteworthy for RC1 lists all the things that have changed since M6.
Riena now has 994 Java classes plus 279 testclasses with 1364 Junit testcases of which 848 are UI JUnit Tests.
Milestone 1.0.0.M6 was published (11 December 2008)
M6 contains many fixes and some consolidation. Biggest Noteworthy is the refactory of the assembly extension point that enables everyone to define the application model. We believe its now in a good and consitent shape and will not change much in the future. The download is a usual in the wiki under Getting Started. M6 is available as target platform for Windows, Mac and Linux (~ 31 MB) and as zip that only contains the Riena bundles and features (~ 5 MB). New and Noteworthy for M6 lists all the things that have changed since M5.
Riena now has 994 Java classes plus 258 testclasses with 1315 Junit testcases.
Milestone 1.0.0.M5 was published (5 November 2008)
The new M5 milestone was just uploaded. As usual you find the steps to set up an environment in the wiki under Getting Started. We are making a target platform (~ 31 MB available) as well as only the Riena bundles and features (~ 4 MB). All the new stuff that was added in M5 can be found in New and Noteworthy.
Riena now has 866 Java classes plus 229 testclasses with 1130 Junit testcases.
Milestone 1.0.0.M4 was published (1 September 2008)
We just published the targetplattform for M4 of Riena. This version is based on Eclipse 3.4 only and has only one download for Windows and Mac. The description for download & install and the first steps can be found in the wiki under Getting Started. We also have a very good and detailed description of everything that is new in M4 under New and Noteworthy.
Riena now has 751 Java classes plus 818 JUnit Tests.
Milestone 1.0.0.M3 was published (8 July 2008)
We just published the targetplattform for M3 for Riena. This time we have two separate downloads one for Windows users and a second one for Mac users. Additionally there is an updatesite to install the Riena IDE wizard which creates small Riena sample projects from the new Plugin Wizard. Click HERE for Windows or Click HERE for Mac.
The updatesite for the Riena Wizard is located here: Paste this link as updatesite into your Eclipse IDE. As usual a detailed step by step description can be found in Getting Started
Riena moves to the new Runtime project (FINISHED)
Riena CVS has moved to the RT (=Runtime) toplevel CVS. The download area also moved. All links were adjusted.
Milesone 1.0.0.M2 released (8 May 2008)
After some preparation and testing we are now releasing our M2 milestone for Riena. It can be downloaded from here. It contains a proper target plattform so running it in Eclipse is way easier. It contains many bug fixes, the object transactions, the new service and extension injectors and many more junit tests. Beyond ObjectTransactions there is however yet no specific code for persistence in Riena. As alwas the wiki shows you how to install and run the Riena M2 (at least the first steps) here. For problems, ideas, requirements use our newsgroup, mailing list or bugzilla.
Jax 2008 (21 - 25 April 2008)
Good feedback from a number of people. Thanks for coming. The promised M2 is now here (finally !)
EclipseCon 2008 (17 - 20 March 2008)
Our talk at the EclipseCon 2008 had quit a number of listeners and we got very good feedback. Many people had questions and approached us later on where Riena is heading. We uploaded the presentation slides in the meantime up to the EclipseCon Site as PDF.
Milestone 1.0.0.M1 published
We have published the first milestone for Riena M1. You can download the version here. This milestone contains the components for remote services based on OSGi, security components for authentication, authorization and session management. It also uses ConfigurationAdmin and has a nice ServiceInjector aproach for injecting OSGi Services in your code. All this is either already documented in the wiki in here.
Finishing up code contribution for upcoming milestone version (7 Feb 2008)
We are currently finishing the code the planned milestone end of february. We have finished building a PDE build process, created some more testcases. So we are on schedule for the 1.0.0M1 end of Feb 2008. Please note our new release plan in the Infos about Riena and in the wiki.
Code for core, communication and security + tests was committed to CVS (23 Jan 2008)
Code is now available in the CVS repository. What is missing is a good description in our wiki, how to use it together with some sample code. What you can already look at are testcases for local junit tests and integration tests in org.eclipse.riena.tests We are also currently working out a PDE Build so that we have something when we approach the 0.1 Version. Update:0.1 is now 1.0.0M1
Initial contribution in progress (8 Jan 2008)
We are in the process of submitting the initial code contribution.