News

new in 1.6.0

  • 2006-11-01 11:54 - MULTIPLE_SELECTION_HREF added (Tree Component)
  • 2006-10-26 13:21 - added property "selectionModel" in tree tag
  • 2006-10-19 09:58 - parameter labels support i18n
  • 2006-09-21 13:44 - fix confusing log entry
  • 2006-09-21 13:34 - remove spaces from resource strings
  • 2006-09-05 07:48 - added IDiffListener to XmlDiff
  • 2006-07-14 10:13 - added Calendar-Control
  • 2006-07-14 08:36 - Skip: Ignore if hidden
  • 2006-07-13 14:59 - Calendar-Control
  • 2006-06-29 13:44 - fixed formId in FormDemo and UploadDemo
  • 2006-06-28 12:56 - evaluate page attribute
  • 2006-05-05 07:14 - better icon for refresh node
  • 2006-05-04 12:57 - BoundedTreeModelDecorator to reduce the number of SQLs in Navigator
  • 2006-04-04 14:10 - removed duplicate variable in popup.xsl
  • 2006-04-03 16:43 - more PopUpMenu Tests
  • 2006-03-30 15:02 - update new version
  • 2006-03-29 15:30 - Colors for PopUp Menu
  • 2006-03-27 13:46 - Extended Session Pool
  • 2006-03-22 15:17 - font size 0.8 em
  • 2006-03-20 14:47 - fixed typo
  • 2006-03-15 12:17 - SQL Logging does not work
  • 2006-02-10 12:01 - make Pagesize in WCF table adjustable
  • 2006-02-03 11:05 - make css attribute available to application
  • 2006-01-12 12:33 - make PropertyResourceProvider public

Supports BEA and WebSphere

New reusable Tabbed Pane component

see example.

WCF now nicely integrates with JSF (JavaServer Faces)

It is possible to use WCF Components inside a JSF application. See example jsfdemo.jsp.

EL Syntax changed

The Syntax of the WCF Expression Language (actually its based on jakarta BeanUtils) has changed from ${expr} to #{expr} so it cooperates from the expression language available in Tomcat 5 / JSP 2.0.

So with JSP 2.0 you should use #{} notation to define expressions for WCF attributes and ${} to define JSP EL expressions.

JSP EL expressions can not be used with WCF tags currently, all tag attributes have their rtexprvalue set to false. There may be a twin library supporting JSP EL expressions in the future (similar to the twin libraries in JSTL, e.g. core and core_rt).

Static accessor for RequestContext

RequestContext has a static instance() method that returns the current instance (using java.lang.ThreadLocal). This seems to be safe since JSF uses this mechanism too

actionReference in XML form descriptions

Form handling has been simplified, see example. In the XML file describing the HTML form, the <button ...> element accepts an element named "actionReference". The value of this attribute is interpreted as the name of a function, which is called when the user presses the button. The signature of the function is void foo(RequestContext context) throws Exception;