Awesome, thanks! Learning something new every day :)
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Eynon [mailto:steve.ey...@alienfactory.co.uk] Sent: Freitag, 14. Oktober 2011 14:18 To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: An Appeal To Use the Latest Betas For point 3, try viewing the new PageCatalog page. e.g. http://localhost:8080/PageCatalog There's a button there to load all pages. Steve. On 14 October 2011 19:47, Wechsung, Wulf <wulf.wechs...@sap.com> wrote: > I've taken 5 minutes to try out the beta with my integration test project and > besides noticing that chenillekit doesn't declare its dependency on tapestry > as "provided" which leads to an IncompatibleClassChangeError I found the > beta-21 to be much stricter about the location of non-managed classes. In > 5.2.6 you could still have an interface in the components package (now yields > plastics error java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal field modifiers in class > 0x12) or an enum in the mixin package ( gave an error stating that is should > be moved to the base package). I also noticed the new event handler > verification. All in all, I think these are acceptable changes if they find > their way in the user docs. > > I also think it would be great if tapestry came repacked with a web-app > validation suite that > > 1) attempts to realize all registered services > 2) checks all classes in the "managed" package for the class format and > tapestry-required visibility > 3) checks templates of all pages and components known to tapestry > > Framework errors are a great way to let the developer know that he isn't > making any sense or in the case of event handlers that he probably made an > error in the functional implementation. However, webapps are usually > user-facing and it's a little bit embarrassing to have the webapp barf all > over the user just because an empty event handler isn't attached to a form or > because an interface isn't in the "correct" package. Giving the developer a > tool to avoid this before deployment would be a great way for the framework > cto enhance productivity by essentially prepackaging a crash and burn test. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard Lewis Ship [mailto:hls...@gmail.com] > Sent: Freitag, 14. Oktober 2011 01:16 > To: Tapestry users > Subject: An Appeal To Use the Latest Betas > > If you've been following the discussions here and elsewhere, you may > be aware that Tapestry 5.3 is nearly done, with big improvements to > every aspect of Tapestry, including speed and memory utilization. Our > goal is to deliver an upgrade that is as seamless as possible. > > The PMC would dearly like to get a final release out and available > before December (that is, within one year of the release 5.2). > > However, we can't do it without YOU: We need people actively using > Tapestry to upgrade to the latest betas (5.3-beta-20 is the latest, > but we're releasing new updates almost every day). We are looking for > broken features or problems upgrading ... all the things that will get > in the way of a release candidate and then a final release. > > Your feedback is essential ... without are community, we don't know > for sure that Tapestry is ready to go to the next stage. Please > budget some time, as soon as possible, to run you application under > 5.3 and report back here about any problems you find. Without accurate > (and hopefully, positive) feedback, we will not be able to progress to > a final release ... and that means we'll be delayed adding the next > layer of amazing features in Tapestry 5.4! > > Please see these notes on how to make use of the latest beta preview releases: > > http://tapestry.apache.org/2011/08/27/tapestry-53-beta-preview.html > > http://tapestryjava.blogspot.com/2011/10/tapestry-53-maven-archetype.html > > I've been posing on twitter each time a new preview is made available: > > http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23tapestry5 > > ... and note that by the time you do you upgreade, the exact version > number may have changed (don't worry, beta-20 will still be available > when beta-21 is made available). > > Your support is deeply appreciated ... now get back to coding less and > delivering more! > > -- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
