The latest release of the Pragmatach Framework is version 1.32.  Changes in this release include:

• Bug fix in JMX registration.  Web contexts can now be reloaded by the container and the JMX beans are gracefully unregistered and re-registered
• Addition of the @Startup and @Shutdown annotations to allow methods to be run at container shutdown and startup.  An example is here.
• Addition of @BeforeInvoke and @AfterInvoke annotations which can be used to register methods which are run before and after controller method invocations.  Example is here.
• Null pointer violation when POSTing empty forms fixed
• Updated various libraries to the latest including
  • org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient
  • org.apache.httpcomponents.httpmime
  • org.hibernate.hibernate-core
  • com.google.code.gson.gson
  • org.apache.openjpa.openjpa
  • org.thymeleaf..thymeleaf
  • com.thoughtworks.xstream.xstream
  • org.yaml.snakeyaml
  • commons-beanutils.commons-beanutils
  • commons-fileupload.commons-fileupload
  • org.antlr.antlr
  • commons-codec.commons-codec
  • asm.asm-util
• Updated the default J2EE containers to the latest versions including
  • jetty
  • tomcat7
  • tomcat6
  • tomee
  • jboss-as
  • glassfish
• Updated the supported databases to the latest version including
  • hsqldb
  • derby
  • h2
• Added prototypical MongoDB support
• Switched from cglib to javaassist for proxy generation