[ANN] Apache Isis 1.8.0

The Isis team is pleased to announce the release of:

New features in this release include:

a new theme-able look-n-feel for the Wicket viewer, using Twitter Bootstrap and font awesome icons
a new simplified set of annotations (@Property, @DomainObject, @CollectionLayout etc) to make features more discoverable; see cheat-sheet
support to enable multi-tenancy (in particular in conjunction with Isis addons security module)
new i18n support using gettext .po files, honouring user locale
sign-up/self-registration support (so that end-users can create own user accounts)
EmailService for sending HTML emails, optionally with attachments
ability to validate individual parameters imperatively
config property to flag use of deprecated annotations/method prefixes
Maven plugin to validate domain object model with respect to Isis programming conventions
improved support for Neo4J
experimental support for more flexibility of generating Restful Objects representations

Full release notes are available on the Isis website.

Note that:

as of 1.8.0 the Wicket Viewer is bundled in with Core
the ToDoApp archetype is no longer provided, however the example todoapp is available from Isis addons (not ASF) to fork and adapt.
this release drops support for JDK 1.6, standardizes on JDK 1.7

You can access this release directly from the Maven central repo, or download the release and build it from source.

Enjoy!

--The Apache Isis team