Mies Status

Mies is currently available as a production-quality beta (Mies beta 1.0). Tool support is in the form of a graphical editor implemented within Frameworx' Swing-based Alvar editor framework. Java code can be written directly within this editor.

Mies Roadmap

March 2004

• Support for JNDI look-ups to located JDBC data sources
  Currently, Mies obtains JDBC data source connections directly from JMX Beans provided by the Louis component. This dependency will be removed.

June 2004

• Native Eclipse editor
  The Alvar/Swing-based editor will be replaced with an Eclipse-based editor providing required functionality

• Use of native types to represent the state of Mies artifacts (Business Data Objects)
  Mies currently uses and XML DOM structure to represent the state of BDOs.

• Migration to XDoclet
  Metadata corresponding to Business Data Objects will be expressed in terms of XDoclet tags, rather than separate XML documents.

December 2004

• Enhanced Web services support
  Support for Web services as true J2EE data source

• Enhanced JCA support
  Support for declarative specification of JCA-based data transfers