jRecruiter is deployed and live

Finally...it took ways to long. Last Sunday I finally made a new production deployment (Version 2.0) of jRecruiter). jRecruiter is the job posting service of the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG). This version was a long time in the making. I hope that from now on I can make new feature deployments more swiftly. The new version is accessible at: http://www.ajug.org/jrecruiter/

Here is a list of changes:

• (Almost) No more Struts XML-configuration files. jRecruiter uses the Struts 2.1 convention plugin for annotation based configuration.
  
• Many Spring Beans dependencies are now configured using annotations (Spring 3.0)
  
• Sophisticated data-grid support using jMesa
• Google Maps integration (web (Javascript), Pdf (Image) and Flex (Flash))
  
• Hibernate Search support
• RSS feeds for the latest 20 jobs using ROME
  
• Social bookmarks on the job posting list
• Application is now Struts 2.1 based
• Using jasypt for password digesting
• Administrative pages are SSL encrypted
• Improved charting (JFreeCharts)
• Using reCAPTCHA for the registration page
• Implemented email account verification
• Now job postings and updates are send to Twitter (http://twitter.com/ajug_jobs/)
• PDF Export of Job Posting Details (using iText)
  
• Switched from username-based logins to an email-based system (usernames are still supported on the backend (e.g. administrative logins)
• Some performance improvements --> CSS and JavaScript files are now merged, minified and GZipped using JAWR)
• XML web services for providing job posting data to Indeed.com (Still need to do the actual integration but the XML feed is there)
• Using jQuery for most Javascript needs
• Maven project consists of multiple modules now (web, server, flex)
• I18N: Added partial support for German
• Extra bonus: Added a simple Adobe Flex front-end using Spring Blaze DS for server integration