Brian Pontarelli and I released jCatapult version 1.0 Milestone 1 on Monday this week. jCatapult has been a joint effort by both Inversoft and Texturemedia and has been in development for over a year now. At the moment, only Brian and myself are committors on the project but we hope this changes as more and more people start using it and contributing to the project. The tentative plan is to do a few milestone releases over the next month to month and a half and then release 1.0.
Ok, so 'WTF is jCatapult?' Good question... Simply put, it's an enterprise web application development platform for Java that's built on top of open source projects such as: Hibernate, Struts2, and Guice (to name a few). Ultimately, jCatapult is just a glue that binds together major, industry standard, open source frameworks to help expedite enterprise web application development.
Curious? You can check it out over at http://www.jcatapult.org. I'll also be using this blog to help promote it, talk about it, and provide some general tips and tricks to help those using it get up-to-speed faster.
