Tapestry Support Network News - August 2005

August 29 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-beta-5 Released

The fifth beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-4 release. Many of the fixes in this release were improvements to client-side JavaScript, including client-side input validation. The way Tapestry forms client-side element ids is now XHTML conformant (no use of the dollar sign, no leading underscores). The Form component has a new listener parameter, success, that is only invoked when validation is successful. A full listing of bugs fixed is available in the change log.

August 23 2005 - HiveMind 1.1-beta-3 Released

The latest release of the HiveMind services and configuration microkernel progresses towards a final 1.1 release. A few minor bugs were fixed, and the build environment was improved. More importantly, there have been significant improvements to the documentation, care of newest committer Achim Hugen.

August 11 2005 - Tapestry 4.0-beta-4 Released

The fourth beta release of Tapestry 4.0 is now available. Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This is another a bug fix release, building on the beta-3 release. Key areas covered are fixes for minor client-side validation problems, fixes for several bytecode enhancement issues (including one that prevent transient page properties from being cleared), and adding of many different localizations of the messages used for form input vield validation. In addition, the default binding concept was removed from Tapestry 4.0. A full listing of bugs fixes is available in the change log.