husted 01/02/26 03:57:00 Modified: src/doc release.xml Log: Address bug #700, submitted by Martin Cooper. Minor fixes to release page. < http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=700 > Revision Changes Path 1.15 +17 -16 jakarta-struts/src/doc/release.xml Index: release.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-struts/src/doc/release.xml,v retrieving revision 1.14 retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 --- release.xml 2001/02/22 04:48:13 1.14 +++ release.xml 2001/02/26 11:57:00 1.15 @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ <properties> <author>Craig R. McClanahan</author> + <author>Martin Cooper</author> <title>Struts Release Notes (Version 1.0-beta-1)</title> </properties> @@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ the current mapping and current request as arguments, in order to provide access to more context information than just the properties of this particular form bean.</li> - <li>The new <code>ActionForm</code> class also provides to + <li>The new <code>ActionForm</code> class also provides two <code>reset()</code> methods that take the current mapping and current request as arguments, in order to provide access to more context information (particularly important on multi-page forms so that the form @@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ <code>java.io.Serializable</code>.</li> <li>The <code>Action</code> class now includes support for "transactional tokens", so that you can detect cases where the user submitted a form, - pressed the back arrow key, and then resubmitted the form again.</li> + then went back and resubmitted the form again.</li> </ul> <p>The following major new features have been added to the @@ -122,20 +123,20 @@ modifiers removed, and <code>private</code> instance variables changed to <code>protected</code>. This makes it possible to easily subclass these tags to provide specialized functionality.</li> - <li>The <code><form:link></code> tag has been enhanced to support + <li>The <code><html:link></code> tag has been enhanced to support a new <code>page</code> attribute that allows you to use context-relative URIs in a portable manner.</li> - <li>A new <code><form:html></code> tag has been created that + <li>A new <code><html:html></code> tag has been created that renders an HTML <code><html></code> element with appropriate <code>lang</code> and <code>xml:lang</code> attributes, based on the - session stored in the user's session (if there is one).</li> + locale stored for the user's session (if there is one).</li> <li>A new <code><rewrite></code> tag has been created that renders a request URI, possibly encoded with a session identifier, based on exactly the same rules used by the <code><link></code> tag that generates hyperlinks. These constants can be useful when you are creating JavaScript code that needs to be aware of Struts addressing concepts.</li> - <li>The <code>options</code> tag now supports a new "collection" attribute, + <li>The <code>options</code> tag now supports a new <code>collection</code> attribute, which can be used to specify a collection whose beans have properties that return the value (to be returned to the server) and the label (to be displayed to the user) from a single collection. The previous @@ -148,17 +149,17 @@ need to make changes in two places when these values are changed.</li> <li>A new <code><image></code> tag has been added, to create HTML input tags of type "image".</li> - <li>The <code><html:form></code> tag can now use the value you specify - for the <code>action</code> attribute to look up the corresponding - <code>ActionMapping</code> entry, and thereby derive the name and scope - of any defined form bean, plus the path to which the form should be - submitted. It works for cases where the controller servlet is extension - mapped or path mapped.</li> +<li>The <code>form</code> tag has been enhanced to read its configuration from + a corresponding action mapping entry in the"struts-config.xml" file, + if the <code>name</code>, <code>scope</code>, and <code>type</code> + attributes are not specified. It can look up the name of the + form bean, its Java class, the scope in which the bean should be + created or accessed, plus the path to which the form should be + submitted. This removes the need to make changes in two places when these + values are changed. It works for cases where the controller servlet is + extension mapped or path mapped.</li> <li>The <code><html:img></code> tag has been added, to render an HTML <code><img></code> tag.</li> - <li>The <code><html:select></code> tag will now correctly display more - than one selected value when the <code>multiple="true"</code> attribute - is set.</li> </ul> <p>A new package of Actions and associated classes for handling file uploads @@ -280,7 +281,7 @@ <li>The <code>ActionServlet</code> functionality to call the <code>validate()</code> method of a form bean is skipped if the user pressed the Cancel key (i.e. the submit button created by the - <code><struts:cancel></code> custom tag), or if the selected + <code><html:cancel></code> custom tag), or if the selected mapping does not define an input form to return control to.</li> <li>The controller servlet may now be used as the target of a <code>RequestDispatcher.include()</code> or
