The Struts team is pleased to announce the release of Struts Shale 1.0.2 Alpha.
http://struts.apache.org/downloads.html The Struts Shale Framework is a set of loosely coupled services, fundamentally based on JavaServer Faces, which may be combined as needed to meet particular application requirements. Compared to version 1.0.0 (version 1.0.1 was retired due to packaging issues), this version includes a substantial number of bugfixes and enhancements -- details are in the Release Notes -- and the following major new features: * Shale Remoting is a complete overhaul of the remoting support in 1.0.0, providing support for application or component developers who need to implement the server side behavior for AJAX callbacks. It is packaged as a small (40k) JAR that has no dependencies on the rest of Shale. * Tiger Extensions is an optional add-on layer for those running on Java SE 5 (code named "Tiger"). The extensions let you use Java annotations to declare managed beans or register JSF components, without needing entries in a faces-config.xml file. * A new "blank" starter application to get you up and running with a new project quickly. * A new "mailreader" demo application that duplicates the functionality of the Struts 1.x version of this app, so you can compare implementation approaches. * A new "SQL Browser" demo application that illustrates use of the Tiger Extensions, as well as the ability to modify JSF component trees on the fly. Although this is considered an alpha release, various developer APIs should be considered at a more stable (in terms of assurances of backwards compatibility in future releases) point than might otherwise be expected. Please see the following web page for more details: http://struts.apache.org/struts-shale/api-stability.html Your comments and questions are welcome! -- Wendy Smoak --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]