Road Map and Changes

Road Map

Changes

Version 1.1 - 22 November 2006

New developer Stephen Haberman joins the Click project.

• Added Form field width grid layout rendering option. See the Form add(field, width) method.
• Added Table Column sorting support. See the Column sortable property.
• Added Column convenience methods for setting width, text-align, vertical-align attributes, and setting data and header styles.
• Added auto binding of request values to public Page fields. See the ClickServlet method processPageRequestParams() for details. This addition was raised by Stephen Haberman.
• Added Form clearValues() method.
• Added ClickUtils getMimeType() method.
• Added support for overriding Click Application mode by defining a System property click.mode. For example: -Dclick.mode=trace
• Improved Table paging across very large lists.
• Improved Table rendering performance. [136].
• Improved OGNL form binding performance.
• Improved Click configuration defaults:
  • page automapping is enabled by default
  • global no cache headers are used if no headers defined
• Updated ClickServlet to use response Writer to support the MessAdmin session monitoring tool. This issue was identified by Sven Herschel and a patch was provided by Bob Schellink [146].
• Fixed NPE in PropertySelect when label is null. This issue was raised by David Frizelle [132].
• Fixed OgnlException in Column when evaluating null property paths. This issue was raised by David Frizelle [133].
• Fixed Ognl Null property evaluation bug when handling Date properties. This issue was raised by David Frizelle [137].
• Fixed JSP page automapping bug. This issue was identified and fixed by Bob Schellink [142].
• Fixed HibernateForm not working for CGLib proxies. This issue was identified and fixed by Caroline Briffa [144].
• Fixed CayenneForm bug where FOID was not being updated for recently committed DataObject. This issue was raised by David Frizelle [145].
• Added dependency on Dough Lea's Concurrent Utilities library version 1.3.4.
• Update Velocity 1.5-dev library to SVN revision 467179.
• Updated OGNL library to version 2.6.9.
• Updated documentation and examples. Click Quickstart has also been added as an example application.

Version 1.0 - 3rd October 2006

• Added Cheat Sheet guide. This feature was raised by Ahmed Mohombe and Ricardo Lecheta.
• Added Column maxLength property to limit the number characters displayed.
• Fixed NPE in Table ActionLink pagination. This issue was raised by Ricardo Lecheta [124].
• Fixed custom ErrorPage not resolving. This issue was raised by Glen Stampoultzis [126].
• Fixed NumberFormatException in LinkDecorator [127].
• Fixed NumberFormatException when using Form.onSubmitCheck() with a FileField. This issue was identified by Satoshi Takata [128].
• Fixed CayenneForm bug with required property set on Checkbox. This issue was identified by David Frizelle [129].
• Fixed PropertySelect bug where first item displays twice under certain conditions. This issue was identified by David Frizelle [130].
• Updated and verified Click Framework and Extras codebase against FindBugs.
• Updated Cayenne library to version 1.2.1.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 1.0 RC2 - 6th September 2006

• Added FlashAttribute class providing flash scope session attributes. Once a flash attribute has been accessed from the session it is removed.
• Added LinkDecorator class for rendering action links in column tables. This class was inspired by Richardo Lecheta's ViewDecorator pattern.
• Added paging support to FormTable control.
• Added Form startTag() and endTag() methods to support laying out forms manually.
• Added Form clearErrors() method.
• Added Page templating support for JSP pages. This issue was raise by Huy Do.
• Added Taiwan properties file provided by Huang.
• Added new Click Logo provided by Ahmed Mohombe.
• Improved Form client side JavaScript validation provided by Naoki Takezoe [115].
• Updated Column class to escape HTML characters by default. This issue was raised by Glen Stampoultzis [118].
• Updated HtmlStringBuffer to improve HTML character escaping performance, removing Apache Commons Lang's use.
• Updated FishEye project view provided by Cenqua.
• Updated Cayenne library to version 1.2.
• Updated Hibernate library to version 3.1.3.
• Fixed CompressionFilter to compress response by default and to automatically set any configured Click charset. These issues were raised by Ricardo Lecheta and Naoki Takezoe [119].
• Fixed NPE in DateField when setting value to null. This issue was raised by Geoff Hopson [121].
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 1.0 RC1 - 31th July 2006

• Added FormTable data grid control and associated FieldColumn class.
• Added PageSubmit control for redirecting to target pages.
• Added Page setForward(Class) method.
• Added Quick Start topic to Click documentation.
• Modified Form isFormSubmission() method to only return true if the submission is from this form.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.21 - 19th July 2006

Final new features release for Click 1.0.

• Added Page onRender() method. This addition was raised by Stephen Haberman [105].
• Auto add public Page fields to the model. See the ClickServlet methods initPage() and createVelocityContext() for details. This addition was raised by Stephen Haberman [109, 112].
• Refactored panel package with BasicPanel renamed Panel and moved into the core control package, and removing the Panel interface. The ListPanel and TabbedPanel classes have been revised to take advantage of the new Panel capabilities.

  Panels are now rendered as $panel rather than #parse($panel)

  Panels can now define Velocity templates on the classpath as well as the web file system.

• Added PageLink control. This addition was raised by Stephen Haberman [106].
• Added OGNL support for rendering Column values.
• Added support for multiple ActionLink parameters, see setParameter() for details.
• Added Menu isUserInRoles() method.
• Added Best Practices topic to Click documentation.
• Fixed Tomcat deployment issue where Tomcat ClassLoader was locking Click JARs preventing application redeployment. Due locking on URL streams, the deployment technique has reverted back to using uniquely named files (pre 0.19). This issue was raised by Doychi [82].
• Fixed MessagesMap cache permissions issue. This issue was identified by David Felis [99].
• Fixed Field setFocus() bug. This issue was identified by David Felis [102].
• Fixed Context session Locale bug. This issue was identified by Steven Van Hoof [107].
• Fixed Select validation bug when no options are defined. This issue was identified by David Frizelle [110].
• Fixed DoubleField validation bug with "0" value. This issue was identified by David Frizelle [111].
• Moved ActionButton control from Click Extras to core controls package.
• Removed depreciated Context sessionObject methods.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.20 - 7th June 2006

• Added client side JavaScript Form Validation [16].
• Added new Click extras controls CheckList and ColorPicker. These controls were added by Christian Essel [81].
• Added support for a global page message bundle, see Page getMessage() for details. This issue raised by Claudio Rossetto [72].
• Added Control parent property [88].
• Added support table Column support for java.util.Map row objects. This issue raised by J.F. Zarama [91].
• Added option to place Table banner on top. See Table bannerPosition Javadoc for details. This issue raised by J.F. Zarama [92].
• Add configurable application Locale. See Click App for details [96].
• Added support for 'Page' suffix when automapping path -> classname. See automapping topic for details. This issue raised by Stephen Haberman.
• Added Page setRedirect(pageClass) method.
• Added Format currentDate() methods.
• Added request parameter to ClickServlet newPageInstance() method.
• Added Brazilian properties files provided by Ricardo Lecheta [86].
• Added Cayenne integration example to Examples.
• Added Spring integration example to Examples and improved SpringClickServlet documentation.
• Improved Velocity rendering performance. This issue was identified and fixed by Stephen Haberman [VELOCITY-438].
• Improved HtmlStringBuffer performance with unsynchronized append methods.
• Improved CSS link rendering to enable alternate style sheets. This issue was raised by Enrico Donelli [81].
• Fixed UnsupportedEncodingException in ClickUtils.encodeUrl() when application charset is undefined [87].
• Fixed file deployment issue on servers with restricted permissions. This issue was raised by David Felis [95].
• Removed Control parentMessages property which was effectively replaced by new parent and messages properties.
• Removed Form support for Struts style error message rendering.
• Updated Velocity 1.5-dev JAR snapshot to revision 390735, with patch VELOCITY-438 applied.
• Updated packaging: click-documentation.war replaced by documentation directory and webapps/click-examples moved to examples directory.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.19 - 8th April 2006

New developer Christian Essl joins the Click project.

• New ClickIDE Eclipse WTP plug-in released by Naoki Takezoe.
• Added new Click Extras controls ActionButton, LongField, NumberField, TabbedForm and TelephoneField.
• Added new Click Extras Cayenne controls PropertySelect, QuerySelect and TabbedCayenneForm. Also added web DataContextFilter.
• Added Context page path lookup method getPagePath(). This feature was suggested by Christian Essl [68].
• Added support for data binding of nested objects in form fields using OGNL library.
• Added Form buttonStyle, fieldStyle and labelStyle attributes to support customised form auto layouts.
• Added support for Control Velocity templates using new Context renderTemplate() methods. See Click Examples 'Rich Text Area' and 'Tabbed Form' for demonstrations.
• Added page automapping excludes. This issue was identified by Ahmed Mohombe [52].
• Added Table control mouseover row highlight. This issue was identified by Ahmed Mohombe and resolved by Christian Essl [57].
• Added French and Italian properties files provided by Lorenzo Orselli [65, 66].
• Improved SpringClickServlet configuration options and documentation.
• Improved Format class now uses request context Locale. Please note this change requires modification to Format subclass constructors. This issue was raised by Christian Essl [79].
• Updated Velocity library to latest 1.5-dev build.
• Updated Cayenne library to version 1.2B1.
• Fixed CayenneForm duplicate insert bug. This issue was identified by Bob Schellink [63].
• Fixed DateField internationaliztion bug. Issue identified by Lorenzo Orselli and fix provided by Naoki Takezoe [60].
• Fixed ClickUtils invokeListener on anonyoumous inner classes bug. This issue identified and fixed by Christian Essl [77].
• Fixed ActionLink parameter encoding bug. This issue was idendified by Steven Van Hoof and fixed by Christian Essl [78].
• Removed example click-blank and click-cayenne applications from main distribution. These examples will be released as separate packages under sourceforge.
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.18 - 15th January 2006

New developer Naoki Takezoe joins the Click project.

• Created new package net.sf.click.extras.control for extended HTML controls. The following controls have been moved into this package: CreditCardField, DateField, DoubleField, EmailField, IntegerField and Menu.

  Table control promoted to core net.sf.click.control.

  Added Control methods getHtmlImports() and onDeploy().

• Added PageImports object to automatically render control HTML header imports.
• Added form back button support. See Form onSubmitCheck() API for details.
• Added full JSP Click Page integration [24].
• Added RegexField provided by Naoki Takezoe [46].
• Added RelationshipSelect provided by Ahmed Mohombe. Please see Click Cayenne web application for a demonstration.
• Added Japanese message resources provided by Naoki Takezoe [44].
• Added German message resources provided by Christian Essl [55].
• Added click-examples Table with Form fields demonistration provided by Christian Essl.
• Improved UTF-8 charset handling provided by Naoki Takezoe [56].
• Improved Form <-> DAO auto-loading to handle primitive types. Provided by Christian Essl [53].
• Updated commons-fileupload to version 1.1 [49].
• Fixed null Column Decorator bug. This issue was idendified by Geoff Hopson [40].
• Fixed Table paging bug. This issue was idendified by Ahmed Mohombe [41].
• Fixed TextField constructor bug. This issue was idendified by Bob Schellink [42].
• Fixed JSCalendar problem in Japanese. This fix was provided by Naoki Takezoe [43].
• Fixed Form FieldSet FileField enctype bug. This issue was idendified by Christian Essl [48].
• Fixed session rewrite bug when using absolute redirects. This issue was identified by Maik Jablonski [51].
• Fixed Velocity RuntimeException handling bug [VELOCITY-424].
• Fixed Velocity 1.5-dev and Cayenne 1.2 interoperability bug [VELOCITY-426].
• Updated documentation and examples.

Version 0.17 - 5th December 2005

• Modified ClickServlet to enable direct ServletResponse handling by Pages. See Click Examples Direct Page for a demonstration.
• Modified SpringClickServlet to set Spring ApplicationContext in pages implementing ApplicationContextAware interface.
• Fixed Click 0.16 integration issues with Velocity 1.5-dev snapshot and Cayenne 1.2.
• Registered Click JARs with Ibiblio Maven Repository.

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.
• 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 auto-loading 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.