Stripes 1.2 contains several major areas of new functionality as well as many smaller enhancements and bug fixes. The 1.2 release number is meant to indicate the inclusion of major new functionality and not a break in backwards compatibility.
Major new functionality
Wizard Forms: A new system for automatically handling wizard (multi-page) forms. State is automatically persisted between pages in a way that is secure and multi-window safe. Furthermore validation is run only for those fields that were present on the page at rendering! For details see the new Wizard Forms How To.
Flash Scope: The new flash scope is used to make objects from the current request cycle available to the next request cycle (in the same window). It is extremely useful in enabling redirect-after-post semantics without losing all the information generated by the post. For details see the State Management How To.
Action Resolution using Names: A new ActionResolver implementation, NameBasedActionResolver. This resolver maps urls to classes intelligently based on class (and package) names, and maps events to methods based on method names. Where present annotations will override the name-driven mappings. In addition the NameBasedActionResolver is simple to extend to introduce new rules for url and event mapping.
Pluggable Tag Repopulation: Value population and re-population for form field tags is now handled by a configurable component, making it easy to change the behaviour. For details see the Configuration Reference page or refer to the JavaDoc for PopulationStrategy
Other enhancements and changes
Validation annotations can now be placed on private fields in addition to public getter/setter methods
Annotations in child classes will automatically override those in parent classes
The @Validate annotation now supports minimum and maximum value checking for all numeric types
Built in numeric type converters now automatically handle currency and parenthetical-negative values
A new Email type converter (requires JavaMail which is not distributed with Stripes)
Ability to have Validatable.validate() called even when validation errors exist
Improved generation of "friendly" property names when localized names are not provided
Default form method is now POST
RuntimeConfiguration is now the default Configuration
Bug fixes
HTML event attributes are now correctly specified for stripes:form in the TLD
Component type of deeply nested collections is now recognized correctly
Bugzooky app now renders correctly in Internet Explorer (an IE XHTML bug was causing it to fail)
Made handling of URLs (specifically when to prepend context path) consistent between stripes:form and stripes:link tags
Removed all uses of Class.forName() and replaced with getContextClassLoader().loadClass()
Stripes 1.1.2 has been released. It includes numerous bug fixes, improvements and new features. For details on the contents of the release please refer to JIRA:
