Spring Web Flow 3 Development Abandoned?

Question

Does anyone have any information on Spring Web Flow 3 status?

Here are a few relevant links that support my sense that springsource has essentially abandoned the project:

1)Official roadmap indicates they are missing milestones by over a year now with no update to the roadmap.

2)Forum thread filled with these questions ignored by Keith Donald and Spring team.

3)Official Download page says the latest release is 2.2.1 but is actually 2.3 so that is not even being kept up-to-date anymore.

While Web Flow version 2 I'm sure is a great product, the issues above are all obvious red flags when it comes to evaluating an open source product -- as well as evaluating the company behind that project. Am I simply missing some communication channel where all this has been discussed in detail before? I find it hard to believe that springsource, a company that seemingly had their act together, would be this negligent with one of their flagship products.

Merkle

It definitely seems so: fisheye.springsource.org/graph/spring-webflow. On the other hand, I would never call Spring Web Flow a flagship product of SpringSource though and I don't think anyone from SpringSource ever did. – Lime

I have a feeling they had to radically change everything so that it will work with HATEOAS too – Sharitasharity

Answer 1

They just added a graphical web flow editor into STS. See this InfoQ post. Also, I just checked JIRA and Fisheye and it looks like there's bug fixes going into a 2.3.1 coming that corresponds with Spring 3.1. So I don't think it's abandoned, it's just not getting new features.

Macomber

Answer 2

Just wanted to mention that the latest version (2.3.1) of Spring Web Flow was released on Mar 27, 2012. See the changelog file: http://static.springsource.org/spring-webflow/docs/2.3.x/changelog.txt

Irrelative