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| <document> |
| <properties> |
| <title>Changelog</title> |
| </properties> |
| <body> |
| |
| <release version="2.0" date="2010-05-10"> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| More convention over configuration and smart defaults |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| New configuration formats (more concise/flexible/powerful xml, properties, java) |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Entirely new core infrastructure (lazy-loading tools, easier access, standalone support etc) |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added VelocityViewTag for JSP integration |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added DisplayTool, ConversionTool, ClassTool, LoopTool, FieldTool, a generic version of LinkTool and more |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Refactored and enhanced a number of existing tools |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Improved documentation |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Deprecated many outdated things |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Legacy support for almost all Tools 1.4 configurations and extensions |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="cbrisson"> |
| Better integration of $application, $session and $request scope control objects |
| </action> |
| </release> |
| |
| <release version="1.4" date="2007-11-26"> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Christopher Schultz"> |
| Added ability to add current request parameters to LinkTool, including controls for automatically and/or manually ignoring some of those |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna" issue="VELTOOLS-87" due-to="Andrea Bernardo Ciddio"> |
| fixed infinite recursion in RenderTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Upgraded DVSL version used for documentation to v1.0 |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna" issue="VELTOOLS-85" due-to="Tatyana"> |
| Fix order preservation problem in SortTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="cbrisson"> |
| Protect BrowserSniffer from requests without user-agent |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added support for a MethodExceptionHandler - the TilesTool.get() method now only returns null if one isn't present |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Christopher Schultz"> |
| Changed StrutsLinkTool.setForward() to look for forwards local to the action mapping, before looking up global forwards |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Rearrange/refactor/deprecate some internal methods in VelocityViewServlet in preparation for VelocityTools 2.0 upgrades |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Upgraded Velocity Engine dependency to build and test against v1.5 (NOTE: Velocity Engine 1.5 will be required for VelocityTools 2.0.) |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" issue="VELTOOLS-81" due-to="Phil Cornelius"> |
| Added propertyKey() and propertyValue() escaping support to EscapeTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna"> |
| Fixed bug in request-path restriction when using wildcards |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Make default locale and format for NumberTool configurable, just as they are in DateTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Chris Townsen"> |
| Add ComparisonDateTool (with some tests and showcase demos) for comparing dates and displaying the comparisons textually |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Add ability to configure default Locale for DateTool and to lock down configure() so it is safe to use in application scope |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Christopher Schultz"> |
| Add better support for dynamic locales in MessageTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Use ResourceTool for common text throughout the Showcase example |
| </action> |
| </release> |
| |
| <release version="1.3" date="2007-02-08"> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added ResourceTool and ViewResourceTool for access to and use of ResourceBundles |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Upgraded to latest versions of Commons-Digester (1.8) and Commons-Validator (1.3.1) |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" issue="VELTOOLS-58" due-to="Christopher Schultz and Niall Pemberton"> |
| Updated ValidatorTool to mirror key changes/features in Struts 1.3.x's JavascriptValidatorTag |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="cbrisson" issue="VELTOOLS-73" due-to="Marc Novakowski"> |
| Added url(String) method to EscapeTool for URL encoding |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="cbrisson"> |
| Added start.showcase.webapp and stop.showcase.webapp ant targets to manually launch the showcase webapp using the embedded Jetty servlet container |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="cbrisson"> |
| Added a testcases framework for generic and view tools |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Changed VelocityViewServlet to look for toolbox config at "/WEB-INF/toolbox.xml" and velocity init properties at "/WEB-INF/velocity.properties" when no other locations are specified (i.e. change the standard location into a convention to reduce configuration needs) |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Upgraded VelocityStruts dependencies to those for Struts 1.3.x series and updated "struts" example app according to <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsUpgradeNotes12to13">provided directions</a> |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Replaced "layout" example with new "showcase" example to interactively demonstrate all tools and the VelocityLayoutServlet |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added auto() and manual() methods to AlternatorTool and deprecated the make() methods that took a boolean parameter |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added getAll() method to ParameterParser to retrieve map of all params via <code>$params.all</code> |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added configurable getSelf() function to LinkTool to make self-referencing links easier |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added create() methods to CookieTool to support more complex Cookie creation |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added ContextTool for convenient access to context data and meta-data |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" issue="VELTOOLS-71"> |
| Overhauled ant build process: dependencies are now automatically download, jars have manifests, checksums are auto-generated, and more. Also, building with JDK 1.3 is no longer supported |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="henning"> |
| Updated license headers and notices to comply with new ASF policy |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Made auto-alternate default of AlternatorTool configurable via toolbox config |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Mark Brunkhart"> |
| Add addQueryData(Map) and params(Map) method to LinkTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna" issue="VELTOOLS-56" due-to="Christopher Schultz"> |
| Fixed a number of problems with ImportSupport |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" issue="VELTOOLS-67" due-to="Claude Brisson"> |
| Add ability to restrict availability of request-scoped tools according to a request path value set in the tool configuration |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="henning" issue="VELTOOLS-68"> |
| Change VelocityViewServlet to read logger and resource loader config from velocity.properties file instead of hard-coding it |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added setAbsolute() and absolute() methods to LinkTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Made default format of DateTool configurable via toolbox definition |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Deprecated ViewTool and Configurable interfaces ; ViewToolInfo has been enhanced to automatically recognize such tools by checking for init(Object) and/or configure(Map) methods |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Enhanced TextKey trick in MessageTool to make using args and bundles easier |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Add getInteger() and getDouble() convenience methods to ValueParser |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added get() method to StrutsLinkTool to allow syntax like <code>$link.action.saveFoo</code> |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added param(), relative(), anchor(), and uri() convenience methods to LinkTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added currency(), number(), integer(), and percent() convenience methods to NumberTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Changed auto-alternate default in AlternatorTool to match Alternator default |
| </action> |
| </release> |
| |
| <release version="1.2" date="2005-11-09"> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Updated documentation to cover new features and sync to many infrastructure changes |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna" issue="VELTOOLS-52" due-to="Christopher Schultz"> |
| Fixed incomplete escaping in ValidatorTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna"> |
| Fixed infinite loop logging problem with Tomcat 5.5 in the "simple" example webapp |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Upgraded jars to Struts 1.2.7, Commons-Logging 1.0.4, Commons-Validator 1.1.4, Digester 1.7, Commons-Collections 3.1, Beanutils 1.7.0, Struts SSL Extension for 1.2, and Commons-Lang 2.1 |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" issue="VELTOOLS-51" due-to="Niall Pemberton"> |
| Added VelocityStruts support for non-resource and session-scoped action messages |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Factored generic parsing code out of ParameterParser into new ValueParser for parsing strings pulled from any Map |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="henning"> |
| Improved error handling/recovery in toolbox xml parsing by adding validation of tool info |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" dus-to="Claude Brisson"> |
| Added BrowserSnifferTool for identifying browsers and their features ; this depends on Java 1.4's regexp support for use |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Shinobu Kawai"> |
| Added EscapeTool for commons escaping needs ; this requires commons-lang for use |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Shinobu Kawai"> |
| Added ListTool as utility for using arrays like Lists in templates |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added DateTool methods to provide easy access to date values (e.g. month, year, day) |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Converted VelocityView and VelocityStruts to use a VelocityEngine instead of the Velocity singleton. |
| This means only the servlets log directly to the VelocityEngine instance; the tools and other |
| classes now use commons-logging (which can still be redirected to the VVS's VelocityEngine). Also, both |
| the RenderTool and LogSystemCommonsLog now support either the singleton or non-singleton approach |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Laurent Dauvilaire"> |
| Fixed bad relative URIs in LinkTool when webapp is installed as root |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Factored basic pagination code out of AbstractSearchTool into new AbstractPagerTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Shinobu Kawai"> |
| Make StrutsUtils.errorMarkup() support errors.prefix/suffix |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Shinobu Kawai"> |
| Fixed ImportSupport bug with multiple calls to ImportResponseWrapper.getWriter() or getOutputStream() |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna"> |
| Made DateTool.toDate(Object) accept Number in place of Long |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna" due-to="Tim Colson"> |
| Fixed RenderTool NPE when passed null VTL string |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Enable template cache refreshing and global macro autoreloading in WebappLoader |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Stopped using Velocity's dependency jar |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Upgraded Struts, commons-collections, commons-logging, and commons-validator to Struts 1.2.4 versions |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Brett Sutton"> |
| Added new SortTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Leon Messerschmidt"> |
| Added MathTool methods for totalling or averaging lists or arrays of values |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna"> |
| Prevent NPE in RenderTool.recurse() when an evaluation fails |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Upgraded jars from Velocity 1.3.1 to Velocity 1.4 |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Simplified MessageTool interface to support $text.this.that syntax instead of just $text.get('this.that') |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Daniel Rall"> |
| Added Alternator and AlternatorTool to improve on the old VelocityFormatter.makeAutoAlternator() |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added new Configurable interface and support for configuring tools in the toolbox definition |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added methods for integer division and modulus to MathTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Remove members, methods, and classes deprecated in 1.1 |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Bring example Struts apps up to speed with latest Struts version |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Upgrade jars to Struts 1.2.0 and Validator 1.1.2 |
| </action> |
| </release> |
| |
| <release version="1.1" date="2004-02-21"> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Deprecated StrutsUtils' getActionErrors() and getActionMessages() in favor of getErrors() and getMessages() |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Nathan Green"> |
| Fixed javadoc warnings during build |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Some sort of improvements to Struts example apps |
| </action> |
| </release> |
| |
| <release version="1.1-rc1" date="2004-02-21"> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Changed recommended keys for MessageTool and ActionMessagesTool to $text and $messages |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Changed XMLToolboxManager to use thread context classloader when digesting toolbox |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Fixed session tool initialization/synchronization issue |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added TilesTool methods to import attributes to specific scopes (page/request/session/application) |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added new demos for using ValidatorTool, TilesTool, and SecureLinkTool to VelocityStruts example app |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Upgraded/refactored MathTool to add floor() and ceil(), make type-handling more intuitive and flexible, and improve number parsing |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Improved resource bundle support in ActionMessagesTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| ErrorsTool now extends ActionMessagesTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| LinkTool now encodes URLs using the response's character encoding |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna"> |
| Removed inadvertant JDK 1.4 dependencies from ImportSupport |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Made XMLToolboxManager not abstract |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| De-staticized non-private methods in RenderTool and LinkTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Mike Kienenberger"> |
| Added NumberTool for formatting numbers |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Filled out and cleaned up DateTool's toDate(...) methods |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Changed VelocityViewServlet's error method to print the stack trace of the root cause when it encounters a MethodInvocationException |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added importAttributes() method to TilesTool to automatically put all attributes of the current Tiles context into the Velocity context |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Replaced TilesTool's getString(String) method with getAttribute(String) in order to support "put lists." |
| </action> |
| </release> |
| |
| <release version="1.1-beta1" date="2003-11-10"> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Daniel Rall"> |
| Made VelocityViewServlet use response.getOutputStream() if response.getWriter() fails. This is functionality is deprecated and provided as a migration path from 1.0 behavior |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| De-staticized MathTool to make it extendable |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Factored common functionality of ErrorsTool, MessageTool, and ActionMessagesTool into abstract MessageResourcesTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added ImportTool as a simple ImportSupport-based tool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino" due-to="Matthew Payne"> |
| Converted TilesTool to extend ImportSupport. This allows easy mixing of view technologies (JSP, Velocity, etc.) in VelocityStruts applications |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added ImportSupport class for building tools that can import resources from local or remote URLS |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Overhauled DateTool to make it more extendable, user-friendly, and add support for standard, localized date-time styles (see DateTool javadoc for more) |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Marinó A. Jónsson"> |
| Added support for specifying message resource bundles to StrutsUtils, ErrorsTool, ActionMessagesTool, and MessageTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added commons-validator (1.0.2) and sslext jars to library |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added SecureLinkTool for using Struts SSL Extension with VelocityStruts |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added ValidatorTool to provide Struts 1.1 javascript validation for VelocityStruts |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| output.encoding property (if non-default) is appended to default content-type as the charset |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna" due-to="Matthew Payne"> |
| VelocityViewServlet now uses response.getWriter() instead of response.getOutputStream() |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Improved VelocityViewServlet error handling (exceptions are logged and error() is now more robust) |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Put VelocityViewServlet's requestCleanup() call in a 'finally' clause to allow clean after errors during a request |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna" due-to="Takayoshi Kimura"> |
| Fixed miscellaneous javadoc and doc typos |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna"> |
| Allow system to reclaim objects held by pooled writers in VelocityViewServlet |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Changed LinkTool to automatically check for XHTML setting |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added support for standard XHTML mode setting via toolbox config |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Moved request/response/session/application keys to ViewContext and add getAttribute() method |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added selectModule() and getForwardURL() to StrutsUtils |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Convert VelocityStruts tools to use new StrutsUtils methods and be module aware |
| </action> |
| <action type="fix" dev="nbubna"> |
| Removed unused imports from StrutsLinkTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Refactor StrutsUtils to use Struts 1.1 classes and support modules |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="marino"> |
| Added TilesTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Allow subclasses of VelocityViewServlet to use different ToolboxManager implementations |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna" due-to="Dmitri Colebatch"> |
| Added CookieTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added demo of <data> elements to simple VelocityView example |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Made simple VelocityStruts example catch Commons-Logging output with LogSystemCommonsLog |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Convert toolbox setup to use Digester instead of dom4j |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added LogSystemCommonsLog and CommonsLogLogSystem to provide bridges between Commons-Logging and Velocity's LogSystem |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added Commons Logging 1.0.3 jar |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Added ActionMessagesTool |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Upgrade deprecated Struts 1.0 uses in examples |
| </action> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Updated jars to Struts 1.1, BeanUtils 1.6.1, Digester 1.5, Collections 2.1 |
| </action> |
| </release> |
| |
| <release version="1.0" date="2003-07-16"> |
| <action type="add" dev="nbubna"> |
| Initial release. |
| </action> |
| </release> |
| </body> |
| </document> |
