Jakarta Turbine

Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java developers to quickly build secure web applications. Parts of Turbine can also be used independently of the web portion of Turbine as well. In other words, we strive to make portions of Turbine easily available for use in other applications.

Turbine is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License. Turbine is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world. We invite you to participate in this open development project. To learn more about getting involved, click here.

Turbine Versions

There are several versions of Turbine currently available for download.

Turbine 2.1. Turbine 2.1 is the current production quality release.

Turbine 2.2. Turbine 2.2.x will be the next official release. It will include some new features and bug fixes.

Turbine 3.0. Turbine 3.x is the development tree, has not been scheduled for release, and is not (yet) recommended for use in a production environment.

Turbine Status

Torque (persistence layer) and Fulcrum (service framework) were decoupled from Turbine and have their own cvs repositories now.

Additions will be made to the 2.2 and 3.0 sources so that Torque and Fulcrum will be pluggable subsystems so that 2.2 users and 3.0 users can take advantage of the decoupled Torque and Fulcrum.

At this point all versions of Turbine will be able to use the decoupled Torque and Fulcrum. Everything will work as expected for people using the old Torque and Fulcrum but development will stop and people will be strongly encourage to migrate. A migrator will be provided. For Torque a regeneration of your OM classes should do the trick but the migrator should take care of the rest. Moving services over to Fulcrum will definitely require the migrator.