DWR version 1.0 released

DWR 1.0 has been released and is available for download.

The feature list for 1.0 looks like this:

• AJAX remoting of JavaScript calls to Java
• Automatic generation of JavaScript stubs to match Java code.
• Test pages allowing you to test and debug your server code.
• Access controls through:
• J2EE security including role based authorization
• Declarative access rights at a method and parameter level
• Automatic conversion of the following types:
• All primitive types, String, Date (including SQL variants)
• Arrays, Collections, Maps, Iterators
• Document, Element etc from DOM, DOM4J, JDOM, and XOM
• JavaBeans (nested and recursive trees supported) including beans from Hibernate
• A large array of remoting options:
• Batch sending of remote calls
• Support for XMLHttpRequest & iframe with POST & GET
• Optional call ordering guarantees
• JavaScript library for HTML manipulation including:
• Tables, ul, ol and select lists
• Form fields including automatic form / JavaBean mapping
• All general content types like p, h*, div, span, etc.
• Spring integration:
• Remote Spring beans
• Configure DWR using Spring config files
• Open Source (ASL Version 2)

We're working on a number of things for the next version including conversion of any Java object (not just beans), tighter integration with Spring (Bram Smeets/Interface21), and a number of enhancements to the Javascript library that helps you build pages with remoted data.

What features would you like to see in the next version?