Wiki page listing

User Documentation

General

• Features
• Questions and Answers
• Approach
• Roadmap
• Development modes

Tutorials

• Run the samples
• Petclinic sample: a version of the Spring Framework Petclinic application. Features Hibernate and Spring MVC.
• Web frameworks sample: a sample demonstrating integration with popular Java web frameworks, Struts 1 & 2, Tapestry, JSF and Wicket.
• Spring Faces sample: a version of the Spring Faces hotel booking application. Features JPA, JSF and Spring Web Flow.
• URL mapping sample: demonstrates Impala's web multi-module support.
• Examples sample: a testbed for Impala features, designed more for Impala developers rather than users.
• Maven sample: a sample which uses Maven as the build tool, and uses Maven project structure conventions.
• OSGi sample: a testbed for Impala's OSGi support.
• First steps
• Getting Started
• Part one - setting up an Impala project
• Part two - understanding a simple application
• Part three - understanding the testing environment
• Part four - understanding a web application
• Part five - building and deploying
• Adding Modules
• How to:
• Set up auto-reloading of modules during development
• Set up auto-reloading of modules in production
• Reload modules using JMX
• How to divide you web application into multiple 'slices' or modules
• Configure load time weaving (AOP)
• Configure set up within-module JSPs
• How to extend the Impala runtime

• How to get Impala working with Maven
• How to add Hibernate to your project
• Rename a module

User Documentation

Testing

• Interactive Test Runner

Web

• Web applications with Impala
• Impala properties
• Initial setup

Configuration

• Module structure
• Module configuration
• Impala configuration
• Impala properties
• Using the service registry
• Dynamic properties
• Impala JMX
• Impala Spring namespaces
• service namespace
• web namespace
• dynaprop (dynamic properties) namespace
• Building Impala using Maven

Advanced

• How module reloading works
• Impala internal interfaces
• Setting Impala's bootstrap Spring context locations
• Extending Impala
• Module internal libraries (jars)

General Pages

• Best practices
• Real world solutions
• Non-backward compatible changes across versions

Migration

• Migration to 1.0 M6
• Migration to 1.0 RC1
• Migration to 1.0 RC2

Developer Pages

• Get Involved
• Checking out from SVN
• Pre-release check list
• Development ANT scripts
• Internal interfaces