I am pleased to announce the release of Impala 1.0 RC4.

Impala 1.0 RC4 was originally supposed to be the 1.0 final release. However, due to a few more than expected changes in this release, it was decided to have one last release candidate prior to 1.0 final. The main changes in this release are:

• simplifications and enhancements in the mechanism for mapping web requests to modules, allowing for more intuitive arrangements of JSPs and resources within modules. See the documentation on how to slice a multi-module web application, and how to configure within-module JSPs.
• modification of the starter application to use the multi-web module mechanism out of the box, as this is the recommended approach for building Impala web applications.
• the addition of Javadocs to the build artifacts (this is now required for artifacts deployed to the Maven central repository via Sonatype's infrastructure).

With Impala 1.0 RC4 released artifacts are also available in the Maven central repository. See http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/impalaframework/.

If you like Impala and would like to support the project, please take a look at this page: http://code.google.com/p/impala/wiki/GetInvolved.