Release 2.4

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Some of these items overlap requests in SourceForge and/or Bugzilla.

This list is anything but final!

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
Integrate David Solis' WML components contributions
Fix all the Component Reference pages to use the 2.4 syntax
New features for Script Specification:
- Improve the "include script" element to support relative scripts, scripts in context, script in classpath
- Some kind of "include only once" block
- New DTD
Change build environment to NOT compile against LGPL frameworks (J2EE from JBoss).
Unit testing stategy for the JSP tags and tagsupport service.
Allow auto parameters to not be required.

Completed items in 2.4

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

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

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