I've put up a new set of Tapestry 5 snapshots. Nothing too significant changed in tapestry-ioc.
tapestry-core is really beginning to cook! I've been adding more form element components: PasswordField and Select to go with Checkbox, TextField and TextArea. Form components now post a bunch of different events that event handler methods can hook into. Event handler methods for forms can now return strings, links, or components to abort the form handling and redirect to the named page or link. An annoying bug related to multiple expansions on a single line of the template is now fixed. Tapestry 4 style templates are back, with a few differences. They must live in the WEB-INF folder. The default binding prefix is always "prop:" whether you use <t:comp> or t:id within an existing tag. There's now basic decoration of fields and labels, keyed off the default Tapestry stylesheet (that's automatically included). A bunch of other stuff too involved to explain. We're still aways from the point where I would want to unleash this on the unsuspecting public. I have to put in a few more features before I do the next screencast and start the tutorials: - Application state objects - Loop state management within a Form - BeanForm-style behavior - Implying component type based on element and attributes. ... and hats off to Kent Tong for diving in a building a sophisticated, built-in unit test framework. It's somewhat similar to using Selenium for testing, but without the need to start Jetty and Selenium servers, so it's blindingly fast. -- Howard M. Lewis Ship TWD Consulting, Inc. Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant Creator and PMC Chair, Apache Tapestry Creator, Apache HiveMind Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support and project work. http://howardlewisship.com
