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For a detailed comparison of the web frameworks included in Equinox, see Chapter 11 of Spring Live (to be released in mid January 2005). Detailed release notes are below:

- Added CruiseControl files and documentation to extras/cruisecontrol.
- Fixed export issue in userList.jsp for displaytag. Birthday should now export w/o any issues.
- Added deployment descriptor for Geronimo with Jetty.
- Added JUnit and UI tests for JSF and Tapestry.
- Added installations for Velocity and FreeMarker with Spring MVC.
- Added installations for iBATIS, JDO, OBJ and Spring JDBC. Hibernate is the default.
- Dependent packages upgraded:

• Cargo 0.4
• DisplayTag 1.0 RC2
• Hibernate 2.1.6
• Spring 1.1.3
• StrutsTestCase 2.1.3

- Dependent packages added:

• FreeMarker 2.3
• iBATIS 2.0.8
• JPOX 1.1.0-alpha-4
• OJB 1.0.1
• Url Rewrite Filter 1.2
• Velocity 1.4

Download. For more information about installing the various options, see the README.txt file.

Demos are available at the links below:

• Spring
• JSF
• Struts
• Tapestry
• WebWork

NOTE: I didn't upgrade to Hibernate 2.1.7 because it doesn't create the HSQLDB database tables when the JVM starts up.