Versions Compared

Old Version 5

changes.mady.by.user Bob Harner

Saved on

compared with

New Version 6

changes.mady.by.user Bob Harner

Saved on

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.
Comment: updated versions

...

  • Tapestry now uses the Blackbird JavaScript console.
  • Tapestry now automatically combines multiple JavaScript libraries into a single request.
  • An Ajax event request may now return a MultiZoneUpdate instance to update multiple zones in the client web browser.
  • Client-side numeric validation is now locale-sensitive.
  • Some significant performance improvements over Tapestry 5.0.18: the time to initially load a page, and the time to render a page have decreased.
  • Tapestry IoC services can now be easily advised as well as decorated (both of these refer to Aspect Oriented Techniques applied to Tapestry IoC services).
  • Tapestry Services can now be injected into Spring Beans, when using the Tapestry/Spring integration library.
  • Tapestry now compresses responses for clients that support GZIP compression. Context and classpath assets are now handled uniformly: versioned URLs, far-future expiration headers, and GZIP compression where applicable.
  • Ordered and mapped configurations can now have overrides.
  • Property expressions have been improved: You can now invoke methods with parameters, or create a list (very useful for link contexts).
  • IoC Service contributions may now be made in terms of classes (that are automatically instantiated) as well as instances.
  • A simpler method of overriding built-in services has been added.

Roadmap

The Version 5.1 release is out and available now, work is finished on the imminent 5.2 release2 has reached General Availability (stable) status, and developers are beginning to focus on working on features for a 5.3 snapshot.

The goal is to produce such releases on a regular schedule, every 4 - 6 months.

...

Snapshots are intermediate versions of releases. As of this writing, the most recent preview release is 5.02.2 4 and the current snapshots are for 5.3.0.3-SNAPSHOT. Maven keys off the -SNAPSHOT suffix and handles the dependency specially. It knows that snapshot releases can change frequently, so it will keep checking (at least once a day, maybe more often) to see if there's an updated version of the snapshot.

...