Aranea-MVC 1.1-M4
October 1st, 2007 by Taimo PeeloWe had somewhat longer gap between releases of M3 and M4 than usual, due to team taking vacation in July and being temporarily involved in three different projects as of late. But now for some highlights of 1.1-M4:
- standardized tab widget (javadoc)
- optional background server-side form validation (while end-user is filling form)
- support for modal processes
- LocalizationContext support for locale change listeners
Also, there’s support for context menus in browsers, new control that is hybrid of text and select controls, plus for everyones coding pleasure FormWidget.addElement* and FilterHelper.* methods do not throw checked Exceptions anymore. See full changelog here.
Separate 1.1 demo application is also up. Obviously demos contain more explanations and stuff than mentioned here, so take a look! For everyone who has not yet noticed—already since early 1.0 days there are Widget source and Template source links in our demos (they are not easily spotted sometimes, look at the bottom left corner next to side menu 
).
NB! It was not mentioned in changelog that comes with distro, but StandardFlowContainerWidget (standard implementation of FlowContext) was modified in a way that is incompatible with some older uses. Namely, when call stack is empty and parent FlowContext exists, StandardFlowContainerWidget.finish() and cancel() methods return control to parent FlowContext (meaning that once active StandardFlowContainerWidget is gone for good). In cases (mainly in menus) where this is unwanted, one must take care and call StandardFlowContainerWidget.setFinishable(false).