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Deprecated many outdated things | nbubna |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