WSO2 Carbon UUF 1.0.0-M9

We are happy to announce the ninth milestone release of WSO2 Unified UI Framework. In this release we have upgraded to UUF Maven plugin 1.0.0-m9 version.

Changes list:

• Changes in configuration files.
  • config.yaml, bindings.yaml files are no longer supported for apps and components.
  • For components,
    • Component has only component.yaml configuration file. (see sample)
    • UI specific REST APIs, zone-fragments bindings, business-logic related configurations can be defined.
    • Mandatory, without that component won't be deployed.
  • For apps,
    • app.yaml (see sample)
      • Default theme name, menus, URI of error pages, login page URI, and security related configurations can be defined.
      • Mandatory, without that app won't be deployed.
    • component.yaml (see sample)
      • Same as in a component.
  • For themes,
    • theme.yaml is mandatory. (see sample)
  • Menus are configured at the app level in the app.yaml configuration file. (see sample)
• Support for deploying UI specified REST APIs.
  • UUF can deploy configured (in component.yaml) microservices (using MSF4J) as REST APIs. Deployed REST APIs will be available under /<app-context-path>/<component's-context>/apis/ context.
• Support to push multiple fragments to a zone.
  • Through bindings (configured in component.yaml), multiple fragments (in a specified order) can be pushed into a zone.
• Support to define back-end bundles of a component in the component's pom.xml. (see sample)
• Following Handlebars helpers are added,
  • {{template}} helper.
    • Can send a server-side Handlebars template (a fragment or an inline template) safely to the client-side.
  • String manipulation helpers.
    • abbreviate, capitalize, capitalizeFirst, center, cut, dateFormat, defaultIfEmpty, join, ljust, lower, now, numberFormat, replace, rjust, slugify, stringFormat, stripTags, substring, upper, wordWrap, yesno (see Features App sample for usage)
• Added more samples (see Features App)
• Bug fixes.