It won't be perfectly backwards compatible, but I'm hoping the manual 
intervention will be limited to advanced uses: extending BaseEngine, or 
adding engine services.

On Apr 11, 2005 5:17 PM, Phil Zoio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Erik, I'll try building from HEAD
> 
> Just to clarify, are you expecting 3.1 to be backward compatible
> vis-a-vis apps built using the 3.0 spec, or will an upgrade be required?
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil Zoio
> 
> 
> Erik Hatcher wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 9, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Phil Zoio wrote:
> >
> >> I recently tried out Tapestry 3.1 alpha. I was basically hoping that
> >> an existing quite simple app would work straight away. Here's what I
> >> found:
> >>
> >> I started by building from source. After downloading hivemind 1.1
> >> alpha and setting my hivebuild.dir property file to the hivebuild
> >> directory, the build went with relatively few problems. It would have
> >> been nice to have found some document giving a step-by-step guide on
> >> this.
> >
> >
> >> The steps are pretty simple but its nice to know what they are. I
> >> noticed that Jcharts 0.6.0 is no longer in the referenced location in
> >> ibiblio, so I had to find that manually.
> >
> >
> > How 'bout this?
> > http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-tapestry/BuildingTapestry31
> >
> >> I had to make a couple of changes to the the application itself,
> >> built for 3.0.2. In particular, the AbstractPage method includes a
> >> couple of other abstract methods – in particular
> >> getComponentSpecification(). I'm not sure what form this method
> >> implementation was supposed to take – the Javadocs did not help. I
> >> used the working assumption that if I left the page class abstract
> >> and did not implement this method, it would be handled by the
> >> enhanced class version. No idea whether this is the correct
> >> assumption, though.
> >
> >
> > That is correct. This has been changed in the latest 3.1 codebase
> > though - so I recommend you build from CVS HEAD.
> >
> >> Here's my page class:
> >>
> >> public abstract class Redirect extends BasePage
> >> {
> >> public abstract Object[] getParameters();
> >> public abstract void setParameters(Object[] parameters);
> >> public abstract String getTargetPage();
> >> public abstract void setTargetPage(String newPage);
> >> }
> >>
> >> and page specification
> >>
> >> <page-specification class="com.bt.gmatest.pages.Redirect">
> >> <description>Redirect Page</description>
> >> <property-specification name = "targetPage" type = "String"/>
> >> <property-specification name = "paramters" type = "java.lang.Object
> []"/>
> >> </page-specification>
> >
> >
> > Upgrade to the latest DTD and it'll be 'type'-less.
> >
> >> <component-specification class="com.bt.gmatest.components.Redirect"
> >> allow-body="no" allow-informal-parameters="no">
> >>
> >> <parameter name="targetPage"
> >> type="java.lang.String"
> >> required="yes"
> >> direction="in"/>
> >>
> >> <parameter name="parameters"
> >> type="java.lang.Object[]"
> >> required="no"
> >> direction="in"/>
> >
> >
> > Again, upgrade your DOCTYPE to be the 3.1 one. You then won't be
> > specifying directions.
> >
> >> The error I get is:
> >>
> >> Parameter pageName must not be null. Stack Trace:
> >
> >
> > I don't know what is causing your error, but try from CVS HEAD and
> > upgrading your DTD's to the 3.1 one, validate your specification
> > files, and adjust them appropriately.
> >
> > Erik
> >
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