Tapestry: What's New

Release 2.1-beta-2

Note the change in Tapestry release naming, described in detail in the Tapestry Contributor's Guide.

[ 574792 ] localized strings don't work
[ 573860 ] Shell component hardcodes DTD
[ 573858 ] No way to remove PageDetachListener
[ 573753 ] client TCP reset causes SocketException
[ 573653 ] broken assets
[ 574181 ] ValidationDelegate should eval form name
[ 575228 ] Validation messages not localized

Release 2.0.5

Updated Tapestry to automatically configure the demo for JBoss 3.0.0 (this includes a switch to the JDK 1.3 compiler, for compatibility with the JBoss libraries).

Cleaned up the look of the default exception page. Reorganized the home page, to link to the new Tapestry Wiki, and to move more static content onto SourceForge.

[ 563552 ] IllegalStateException not beeing caught
[ 559647 ] Switch to JBoss 3.0.0
[ 566158 ] ValidField NPE if no delegate
[ 566943 ] Submit problem with tag type
[ 566000 ] Add field to Spec classed to record DTD

Release 2.0.4

Significant improvements to localization support, including support for localized properties files for each component, the <string-binding> element for accessing localized strings, and a new form of markup in the template to access localized strings.

[ 556766 ] Improve localization support
[ 560256 ] Make some property bindings invariant
[ 560255 ] ListEdit: doesn't render element
[ 559575 ] Component Frame cannot render
[ 558165 ] TextField value attribute not required
[ 560506 ] Cannot disable Checkbox component
[ 560217 ] Upload problems depending on browser
[ 550279 ] Define serialVersionUID for classes

Release 2.0.3

Renamed Java packages from com.primix.tapestry.* to net.sf.tapestry.*, along with some significant other reorganizations, especially to the way component parameters are handled.

Added an initial Contributor's Guide for Developers wishing to contribute code to the Tapestry project.

[ 549479 ] Rename packages to net.sf.tapestry
[ 550280 ] Remove IDirectListener
[ 555165 ] Simplify setupLogging()
[ 553310 ] Set properties from parameter bindings
[ 552851 ] Add frame component
[ 549312 ] Delete support for old specifications
[ 556359 ] Inspector doesn't raise at javanuke
[ 555167 ] Maintain JDK 1.2.2 compatibility

Release 2.0.2a

[ 549482 ] NPE in RequestCycle.observeChange()

Release 2.0.2

Changed the inspector icon into an animated GIF for compatiblility with more browsers.

Created the new GenericLink component, which allows links to arbitrary URLs (including JavaScript event handlers), but is still an IServiceLink which means it can wrap Rollover components.

[ 463649 ] NN6 & ShowInspector
[ 544394 ] Release notes / deleted methods
[ 548183 ] Component specification of Option error
[ 548188 ] Component Option implementation error
[ 549144 ] tutorial load-on-startup and WL issue
[ 549142 ] WL issue with default tapestry jar name
[ 549314 ] Spec parse error
[ 521456 ] Allow IRequestCycle.discardPage() from listeners

Release 2.0.1

Removed a lot of deprecated code.

[ 536289 ] remove Jetty dependencies
[ 537398 ] Fix synch/double check bugs
[ 537426 ] Remove object pooling
[ 539600 ] java-class should be java-type in docs
[ 494221 ] Add PDF (or printable) documentation

Release 2.0.0

Added the Quotes page to this website. Added two new tabs to the Workbench, demonstrating redirects and exception reporting. Marked a number of methods (related to object pooling) as deprecated.

Minor formatting changes to the web site and Virtual Library.

Release 1.0.10

Changed the build to include debugging symbols with the frameworks. Fixed a deployment problem with the Tutorial. Added descriptions to most components and parameters. Modified the Inspector to display component and parameter descriptions.

Added a new page to the Workbench Tutorial: Chart. The Chart page allows a user to dynamically create a pie chart.

Made it easier to create subclasses of AbstractResponseWriter.

[ 532562 ] Submit.jwc contains error
[ 532587 ] Submit throws NPE
[ 532815 ] ValidationDelegate errors
[ 532758 ] add descriptions to builtin components
[ 499655 ] HTMLResponseWriter enhancements

Release 1.0.9

The framework and contrib jar files are now named with the release number (i.e., com.primix.tapestry-1.0.9.jar). In addition, the source code for these frameworks, and the examples, is now distributed as Jar files instead of directories of files in the src directory. This makes for easier source lookup when using Eclipse, and shrinks the size of the distribution as well.

The way engine services are defined and used has been completely overhauled. Services are now defined in the application specification and a single instance of the service object is instantiated and shared by all engine instances (for the application).

Made it easier to override the creation of the specification source, template source, etc. in subclasses of AbstractApplication.

The Submit and ImageSubmit components may now have their own listener, which is notified before the containing form's listener.

More reworking of validation; the validation delegate can now track errors in any kind of form component and can track errors that aren't associated with any particular component.

[ #510175 ] add service registration to .application
[ #511256 ] Enhance Validation Framework

Release 1.0.8

A complete overhaul of the validating text field support. The previous implementation used subclasses of AbstractValidatingTextField (which no longer exists) to add new types of validation; the new implementation has a single component, ValidField, and many implementations of IValidator.

At long last, the Upload component.

Reimplemented the Virtual Library application using McKoi Database, to be compatible with JBoss 2.4.3 (which no longer includes InstantDB).

[ #506661 ] private asset configuration
[ #494456 ] StringValidator minLength message wrong
[ #488476 ] Generated URLs should contain entities.
[ #488432 ] Make duplicate page names illegal
[ #487394 ] NumericField doesn't work with long
[ #501750 ] StringValidator
[ #499057 ] BaseValidator summary typo
[ #487619 ] javadoc link errors

Release 1.0.7

Removed Primix copyrights, as I no longer work there or do any work on their time.

Consolidated and cleaned up many of the tutorials into the new Workbench.

Improvements to Inspector's Properties Explorer. It is now more tolerant of exceptions thrown while accessing properties.

Streamlined the distribution by removing the source for documentation.

[ #480433 ] StatementAssembly - access to JBDC 2.0
[ #469747 ] more flexible application parser
[ #484184 ] JavaDoc error

Release 1.0.6

Tapestry now uses Ant as its build tool. The GNU Makefile Java Build Environment has been removed.

The Tapestry Inspector now has a powerful Properties Explorer which allows for dynamic navigation and display of an object's properties (similar to what a debugger provides).

Localization of context assets was broken in Tomcat; it now works in both Tomcat and Jetty.

Release 1.0.5

Added a mechanism to clear out pooled objects when they haven't been used for some time. The interface ICleanable has the details.

Made a number of other efficiency improvements. Particularily, the page loader now weeds out informal parameters that can't be used (because they conflict with formal parameter names, or because the component owns the attributes), preventing them from being added as component bindings. The old method was to weed out the unwanted parameters on every render, which was more expensive.

Improved the NumericField component to deal with null values in an intelligent manner.

It is now possible to set properties of helper beans.

The full distribution now bundles Jetty 3.1RC9 and the Virtual Library is now compatible with JBoss 2.4.0.

Release 1.0.4

Release 1.0.4 debuted the finished Tapestry Home and Virtual Library.