Road Map and Changes

Road Map

Features to be included in future releases are:

• Cayenne and Hibernate Data aware controls
• Automatic Form back button handling
• Client-side JavaScript Form validation
• Additonal Table control functionality

Changes

Version 0.16 - 2nd December 2005

• Improved control localization support, please see Field Javadoc and FAQ for details.

  This feature based on a concept developed by Ahmed Mohombe, and replaces the "msg:" prefix localization functionality introduced in release 0.13.

• Added Hibernate data aware Form control HibernateForm, and supporting SessionContext and SessionFilter classes.
• Added Menu pages property for selecting menu items. This feature was provided by Geoff Hopson [39].

  Refactored Menu to implement Control interface to improve Page subclassing.

• Improved Form rendering flexibility with new properties labelRequiredPrefix and labelRequiredSuffix.
• Added Select setMultipleValues() method. This issue was idendified by Geoff Hopson [34].
• Added Context createPage() method enabling you to specify the target page by class.
• Added custom rich text area control demonstration in Click Examples Email Form page.
• Fixed Column null value handling bug. This issue was idendified by Geoff Hopson [32].
• Fixed ActionLink value escaping bug. This issue was idendified by Geoff Hopson [33].
• Fixed DateField I18N issue and improved rendering. These issues were idendified by Antoni Aloy and Ahmed Mohombe [36, 27].
• Modified Format getEmptyString() to return "" strings to better support AJAX rendering. This issue was idendified by Andrus Adamchik.
• Registered Click JARs with Ibiblio Maven Repository.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.15 - 25th October 2005

• Fixed escaping quote characters in controls. This issue was idendified by Mike Organek [31].
  Added new HtmlStringBuffer class for control rendering.
• Added click-cayenne example web application. This application was contributed by Andrus Adamchik.
• Refactored Form align and position constants to remove ambiguity.
• Fixed ClickApp NPE when initializing [30], related Velocity Engine patches applied [412].
• Refactored Ant build system.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.14 - 17th October 2005

New developer Ahmed Mohombe joins the Click project.

• Fixed FieldSet Form processing bug. The bug was identified by by Paul Rule [25].
• Removed JDOM depencency.
• Velocity Engine error reporting patches applied [373].
• Modified Ant build script to download JAR dependencies from Ibiblio Maven repository.

Version 0.13 - 13th October 2005

• Added Spring integration servlet SpringClickServlet.
• Added Cayenne data aware Form control CayenneForm.
• Improved JSP support. See FAQ for details and Click Examples for a demonstration.
• Improved Field localization support, see FAQ for details. Based on a concept by Iain Shigeoka.
• Fixed FieldSet Form <-> DAO automapping bug. The fix was provided by Paul Rule [23].
• Fixed WebSphere's bundled JDOM 0.7 compatability issue. This issue was identified by Oliver Burn [25].
• Updated Jakarta Commons JARs to latest versions to support Hibernate [19].
• Removed Commons Logging dependency in Click Extras to avoid WebSphere class loading issues [20].
• Updated Velocity 1.5 dev build to use recent snapshot [21].
• Fixed NPE bug in ErrorReport. This fix was provided by Steve Cowx.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.12 - 1st October 2005

• Added FieldSet control. See Javadoc for details and Click Examples for a demonstration [CLK-4].
• Add Field "name" and "label" constructors added to make Form <-> DAO auto-loading eaiser to use.
• Changed controls to render valid XHTML, instead of HTML 4.01, enabling Firefox and Mac OS X browsers to render AJAX responses containing Control HTML [CLK-3].
  For example the TextField HTML   <input type='text' disabled>   now renders as
  <input type='text' disabled='disabled'/>
• Fixed bug where multipart form parameters not available during Page.onInit() [CLK-1].
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.11 - 16th September 2005

• Added Menu component. See Javadoc for details and Click Examples for a demonstration [CLK-12].
• Added runtime Page Auto Loading when the application is in "development", "debug" or "trace" mode [CLK-18].
• Added Form <-> DAO auto-loading feature. See Form Javadoc for details [CLK-2].
• Fixed blank page gzip compression bug. The Click embedded gzip compression functionality has been replaced with a CompressionFilter derived from Jarkata Tomcat [CLK-5].
• Added email() and link() formatter methods and getEmptyString() method to Format class [CLK-15].
• Modified Form control to render a class error attribute <label class="error"> in the labels of invalid fields. You can now override the control.css style label.error to modify the display of field error labels.
• Modified Form constructor to only require form name parameter. The context can be set later. Note this will require modifications to exiting code.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.10 - 1st September 2005

New developer Phil Barnes joins the Click project.

• Added Panel components by Phil Barnes. See Javadoc for details and Click Examples for a demonstration.
• Added Table control. See Javadoc for details and Click Examples for a demonstration [1243243].
• Added ImageSubmit control by Phil Barnes. See Javadoc for details and Click Examples for a demonstration.
• Localization/I18N changes include:
  Added Chinese localization properties (zh_CN) provided by Xi Ping Wang.
  Added Page MessagesMap adaptor to Velocity Context.

  Added new getLocale() and setLocale() methods to Context class to enable overriding the default request Locale.
• New Click Extras module and JAR provided for contributions and non-core framework components.
• New Rico inspired AJAX Live Grid example provided by Phil Barnes.
• Click Examples, Confluence WIKI and JIRA applications are now avilable online.
  Special thanks to Phil Barns for hosting these applications.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.9 - 7th August 2005

• Added application reloading feature to reload "click.xml" without restarting the web application. See ClickServlet Javadoc for details and the Click Examples for a demonstration [1237942].
  This concept was defined by Hans Baecker-Mayer.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.8 - 2nd August 2005

• Added ClickLogger which logs to the console by default. See the Click and Velocity Logging topic.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.7 - 28th July 2005

• Added FileField control for uploading files and modified Form control to support "multipart/form-data" requests. See the Click Examples File Upload page for a demonstration [1237942].
• Added pages Auto Mapping configuration option [1237397]. This feature can automatically map HTML page templates to Page classes so you dont have to declare them manually in the click.xml configuration file.
  This concept was defined by Ahmed Mohombe.
• Added Page Fowarding enabling you to configure the Page to forward the request to. This provides similar functionality as Tapestry's cycle.getPage() interpage calling technique. See the Examples Page Flow for a demonstration.
• Added ClickServlet newPageInstance() method to support IoC applications. See the Spring Integration FAQ topic for more details.
  This concept was defined by Phil Barnes.
• Form rendering improved to include CSS classes "fields", "errors" and "buttons" in the respective table <tr> and <td> elements. This enables greater control of Form display using CSS styles.
• Added "trace" application mode to provide more detailed logging. See the Configuration Mode topic.
• Added limitLength() methods to the Format class.
• Improved Submit controls processing of HTML characters.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.6 - 2nd July 2005

• Added AJAX Dynamic HTML and XML request example using the using Rico Ajax library. See the Click Examples AJAX page for a demonstration.
• Option and OptionGroup refactored into standalone classes.
• Added Page setHeader() method.
• Fixed NPE when Fields, with no parent Form, are processed and rendered.
• Added FAQ, and updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.5 - 1st June 2005

• Form control encodes the form "action" URL attribute using encodeURL(String) to ensure session ID is set.
• Added optional Form validation. A validate property has beed added to Form and a validate() method to Field. Field subclasses have been modified to support optional validation. See the Click Examples Form Properties page for a demonstration.
• Added Session Object utility methods to Context, see getSessionObject.
• Added error message block horizontal alignment proeprty errorsAlign to Form.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.4 - May 2005

• Implemented Page Templating capability. Enabling you to create a standardized look and feel for your web application and greatly reducing the amount of HTML you need to maintain.
• Improved Error handling. Application exceptions render error source line when Java source available. For example a NullPointerException.
• Integrated the DHTML Calendar widget by Dyna.com into DateField control.
• Added Form and Field readonly property. Modified Field subclasses to render their HTML readonly attribute. If the Form is set to readonly all its fields will also be readonly.
• Added Control getId() method. Modified control classes to render their HTML id attribute.
• Added Form columns property to render forms in multi column table layout.
• Added page path property to Velocity context.
• Fixed SourceViewer missing resource bug which occured on Orion server.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.3 - March 2005

Preliminary release for public review.

Version 0.2 - 2004

Major rewrite, replacing command pattern with Page oriented design. Click application descriptor rationalized and simplified.

Version 0.1 - 2003

Initial Click version. Uses Command pattern and Velocity templating engine.

Click team blogging application deployed on Tomcat 4.0 and Oracle 9i application servers.