Release 3.0

Some of these items overlap requests Bugzilla.

This list is anything but final! Not in any (prioritized) order.

• Decide on final release number for "NextGen"
• Bugzilla or Scarab?
• Deal with character sets and localization properly
• Handle change of locale correctly, by reloading new instance of page in proper locale
• Improved User's Guide to replace existing Developer's Guide
• Replace the current tutorial with Neil Clayton's Tutorial2
• Reoganize directory structure to more standard format (compatible with Maven)
• Use Forrest, or somesuch, for documentation (possibly, convert User's Guide and friends to alternate format)
• Get Tapestry compiling under Maven, have nightly builds
• Fill out the test suite and code coverage, reach 85% or better
• Fix all the Component Reference pages to use the 3.0 syntax
• Unit testing stategy for the JSP tags and tagsupport service
• Allow auto parameters to not be required

Completed items in 3.0

• Declarative transient properties - define transient properties in spec, Tapestry builds subclass with instance variables, accessors and initialize() HLS
• Declarative persistant properties - as with transient, but properties are made persistant HLS
• Traditional bin/src distros HLS
• Rename packages from net.sf.tapestry to org.apache.tapestry HLS
• Resolve GPL issues around McKoiDBMBean HLS
• Tapestry JSP tag library HLS
• Support array types for declared properties and connected parameters HLS
• Support primitive types for connected parameters HLS
• Integrate David Solis' WML component contributions DS
• Get Tapestry building under Gump HLS
• Properly sign the distribution and have it mirrored with the other Jakarta downloads HLS
• New features for Script Specification: HLS
  • Improve the "include script" element to support
  relative scripts, scripts in context, script in classpath
  • Some kind of "include only once" block
  • Name uniquer
  • New DTD w/Jakarta public/system ids
• Change build environment to NOT compile against LGPL frameworks (J2EE from JBoss) HLS

Rejected items in 3.0

• Change <extension> initializers to use OGNL expressions HLS
  
  Need an "object" for OGNL expressions, not clear what that would be.

Release 3.1

• Intersertials
• Extend listener methods to take parameters (matching service parameters to actual method parameters)