Coda: The application version IS still used in exception reports (both the HTML version and, if memory servers, the new text file written to the file system).
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Paul Stanton <pa...@mapshed.com.au> wrote: > great! > > > On 24/10/2014 8:37 AM, Howard Lewis Ship wrote: > >> That is correct; tapestry.application-version is no longer needed. Each >> individual asset gets its own content fingerprint. This has huge >> implications for upgrades of you application, as often, all the unchanged >> assets will maintain the same fingerprint, and already be present in the >> end-user's browser cache. >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Paul Stanton <pa...@mapshed.com.au> >> wrote: >> >> https://github.com/apache/tapestry-5/blob/master/54_ >>> RELEASE_NOTES.md#asset-improvements >>> >>> "Prior versions of Tapestry created cacheable URLs for Assets that >>> incorporated the application version number. The Assets were served with >>> a >>> far-future expires header: the client browser would not even need to >>> check >>> to see if the asset had changed. >>> >>> Unfortunately, when any asset changed in a new deployment of the >>> application, the version number needed to change, resulting in all assets >>> being downloaded (because the application version number in their URLs >>> changed). >>> >>> In this release, individual assets are given a URL containing a checksum >>> based on the asset's content. When the underlying file is changed, the >>> asset will be served with the new URL, but unchanged assets will not be >>> affected. This means that when redeploying your application, you'll see >>> far >>> less asset traffic, as most client web browsers will already have most >>> assets (whose contents have not changed) in their local cache." >>> >>> >>> ^ Does this mean the application version number ("tapestry.application- >>> version") >>> is no longer important and doesn't need to be maintained? >>> >>> Thanks, p. >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! (971) 678-5210 http://howardlewisship.com @hlship
