AssertJ a new assertions project (based on Fest)

[Joel Costigliola]

Hi all,

Just to let you know, after 3 years contributing to Fest, I'm starting a new assertions project based on Fest Assert 2.0M10.
It is named AssertJ and two releases already exist that have addressed a few requests opened for Fest.

I have forked Fest because Alex and I did not share anymore the same vision of Fest future, our main points of disagreement are that :
- FEST 2.0 will only provide a limited set of assertions, far less than Fest 2.0M10 and even less than FEST 1.x.
- FEST is not enough open to users demands and contributions.
AssertJ goals is to provide a rich set of assertions and any reasonable requests to enrich AssertJ is welcome as we know it will be useful to someone. Said otherwise, AssertJ is community driven.

AssertJ is is composed of several modules :
- A core module to provide assertions for JDK types (String, Collections, File, Map ...).-
- A Guava module to provide assertions for Guava types (Multimap,Optional,Table ...).
- A Joda Time module to provide assertions for Joda Time types (DateTime, LocalDateTime).
AssertJ also comes with an assertion generator to help you writing custom assertions (https://github.com/joel-costigliola/assertj-assertions-generator-maven-plugin#readme).

You might give a try to AssertJ or stick with Fest, I don't have any problem with that, I still think Fest is great project, it is just the direction it is taking that I'm not happy with.

Have a nice day and lot of good assertions,

Joel Costigliola