The Apache Shale team is pleased to announce the release of Shale Framework version 1.0.4. The Apache Shale Framework is a modern web application framework offering a set of loosely coupled services, fundamentally based on JavaServer Faces, which may be combined as needed to meet particular application requirements.

Version 1.0.4 can be downloaded from the following page:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/shale/

A final vote on quality has yet to take place for this release. We intend to vote on the quality of each module separately where necessary. For example, the shale-tiles module is likely to receive a grade no higher than "Beta" because it relies on a snapshot of the as-yet unreleased Standalone Tiles package.

This release includes the following significant new features and changes:

• The Shale framework now contains six new modules, allowing application developers greater freedom over choosing the bits they need. The new modules are shale-application, shale-dialog, shale-dialog-basic, shale-dialog-scxml, shale-validator and shale-view. See the version 1.0.4 website for documentation on all modules:
  http://shale.apache.org/1.0.4/
• Several outstanding JIRA issues focusing on functional problems with the implementation of the Dialog feature have been addressed along with the refactoring in 1.0.4.
• shale-clay has seen numerous improvements to the non-validating markup parser, template encoding, template namespace support, as well as JSF 1.2 basic support for Clay managed views and reduced inner dependencies for Servlet 2.3 compatibility.
• It is now possible to build unit tests, using the shale-test module, that cater to JSF 1.2 APIs.

Additionally, this version includes a substantial number of bugfixes and enhancements, full details can be found in the release notes:

http://shale.apache.org/docs/release-notes-1.0.4.html

Most of the framework APIs are reasonably stable, please see the following web page for more details:

http://shale.apache.org/1.0.4/api-stability.html

For comments and questions, join us on the Shale mailing lists:

http://shale.apache.org/mail-lists.html

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Shale is a modern web application framework, fundamentally based on JavaServer Faces, and focused on improving ease of use for developers adopting JSF as a foundational technology in their own development environments.