Change Log

Apr 23, 2006

• Page 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 76, 82: After setting the pattern to #.#, you still need to change the type of the "weight" property from int to double. Some of the code in onSubmit() needs to change accordingly.
• Page 85: "The minDate and maxDate at the moment doesn't support client side validation yet" should be "The minDate and maxDate validators at the moment don't support client side validation yet".
• Page 51: "this exception is occuring" should be "this exception is occurring".
• Page 137: "You can have a different listener for each of themSubmit component" should be "You can have a different listener for each of them".
• Page 155: "Let's move them into into the same folder" should be "Let's move them into the same folder".
• Page 157: In the diagram at the bottom of the page, "while maintaing the folder structure"  should be "while maintaining the folder structure".
• Page 158: In the library specification, "you can no longer expect that the specification of that application to list the Java pacakges for the components" should be "you can no longer expect that the specification of that application to list the Java packages for the components".
• Page 254: "move the TabePages to the bottom" should be "move the TablePages to the bottom".
• Page 264: "When a request such as http://localhost:8080/Album/app?service=image&imageId=101 arrvies" should be "When a request such as http://localhost:8080/Album/app?service=image&imageId=101 arrives".
• Page 266: "As PortletResponse doesn't allow setting setting the content disposition" should be "As PortletResponse doesn't allow setting the content disposition, neither does WebResponse".
• Page 274: "Note that the prefix is engine-service, not serivce" should be "Note that the prefix is engine-service, not service".
• Page 283: "because your context folder may have packaged" should be "because your context folder may have been packaged".
• Page 283: "usually such a jar file is assigned the .war extention" should be "usually such a jar file is assigned the .war extension".
• Page 310: "it will generate a unqiue name" should be "it will generate a unique name".
• Page 322: "the For component will create the user objects from the seralized data during the rewind" should be "the For component will create the user objects from the serialized data during the rewind".
• Page 341: "client side valildation will be disabled" should be "client side validation will be disabled".
• Page 343: "it will try to get the 2th (0, 1 and 2) from this list" should be "it will try to get the 2nd (0, 1 and 2) entry from this list".
• Page 344: "When it is rewinding, don't do anything because you'll get it from the hidden form form" should be "When it is rewinding, don't do anything because you'll get it from the hidden form".
• Page 344: "the Hidden component will set it againn" should be "the Hidden component will set it again".
• Page 392: "For convenience,catch any exception" should be "For convenience, catch any exception".
• Page 394: "All subsequent statements are also in the same transaction until it is commited" should be "All subsequent statements are also in the same transaction until it is committed".
• Page 432: "you should set the transaction isolation level of each transaction to serailizable" should be "you should set the transaction isolation level of each transaction to serializable".
• Page 484: "The welcome page is displayed in Japanes" should be "The welcome page is displayed in Japanese".
• Page 486: "a quick and dirty solution is to merge the bunde name into the key" should be "a quick and dirty solution is to merge the bundle name into the key".
• Release.

Mar 11, 2006

• Page 3: "don't take our words for it"  should be "don't take our word for it".
• Page 12: "Unzip it into a folder (suppose that it is c:\tomcat)" is changed to "Unzip it into a folder say  c:\tomcat".
• Page 22: "However, in order for Tapestry to create the component, it need to know what type of the component it is" should be "However, in order for Tapestry to create the component, it needs to know what type of component it is".
• Page 24: 'Home.page is specifying the Java class for the page object and list the components to be created in the page object, it is called a "page specification"' should be 'Home.page is specifying the Java class for the page object and lists the components to be created in the page object, so it is called a "page specification"'.
• Page 25: "Anyway, run the application and you should see" is changed to "Anyway, run the application and you should see the changes taking effect".
• Page 26: Readers are now asked to undo the change of "Good!" before continuing.
• Page 26: "It will work. It may not take effect immediately, but it may take just a few seconds to reload" is changed to "It will work (it may take a few seconds though, so be patient)".
• Page 32: "In this chapter you'll learn how to use forms to get inputs from the user and how to process them" should be "In this chapter you'll learn how to use forms to get input from the user".
• Page 36: "As the BasePage doesn't have a getStockId(), a setStockId() and an onOk() methods" should be "As the BasePage doesn't have a getStockId(), a setStockId() or an onOk() methods".
• Page 38: "You're just returning a hard code stock value of 100" should be "You're just returning a hard coded stock value of 100".
• Page 39: "Only after the listener is finished, it will display it" should be "Only after the listener is finished, will it display it".
• Page 40: "Displaying a hard code stock value is not that interesting" should be "Displaying a hard coded stock value is not that interesting".
• Page 44: A semi-colon is added to the now abstract getStockId() method.
• Page 56: "You will find some description about what it does" should be "You will find a description about what it does".
• Page 56, 57, 58, 60, 72, 84, 86, 100, 150, 152, 338, 340: "inputs" should be "input".
• Page 62: "What if the inputs are invalid?" should be "What if the input is invalid?".
• Page 81: 'This kind of extra parameters are called "informal parameters"' should be 'This kind of extra parameters is called "informal parameters"'.
• Page 124: "If not, him to the Login page" should be "If not, send him to the Login page".
• Page 155: "How others can view the descriptions" is changed to "How can others view the description".
• Page 171: "you have done with the page title" should be "you are done with the page title".
• Page 219: "Who will fill in the real meant" should be "Who will fill in the real meat".
• Page 457: the definition of the DataChangedException class is added.
• Release.

Feb 26, 2006

• Page 80, 81, 83: style="{color: red}" should be style="color: red" as inline CCS styles don't need curly backets.
• Release.

Jan 11, 2006

• Page 261: "A Hivemind service just a global Java object" should be "A Hivemind service is just a global Java object".
• Page 261: "it is saying that please give me" should be "it is saying please give me".
• Page 263: "This is not allowed by Java so it throws an exception" should be "This is not allowed by Java so an exception is thrown".
• Page 265: "How is a WebResponse different from an HttpServletRequest" should be "How is a WebResponse different from an HttpServletResponse".
• Page 265: "Tapestry appllication" should be "Tapestry application".
• Page 269: "create the Java object to act as the Hivemind service" is changed to "create the Java object which will act as the Hivemind service".
• Page 271: "This is no good because it hards the context path" should be "This is no good because it hardcodes the context path".
• Page 272: "unfornately" should be "unfortunately".
• Page 274: "Only when you actually call a method on that service, it will in turn" should be "Only when you actually call a method on that service, will it in turn".
  

Jan 10, 2006

• Update the first chapter to Tapestry 4 final.
• Release.

Dec 1, 2005

• Page 202: In Date4ULibrary.library, add <meta key="org.apache.tapestry.messages-encoding_zh_TW" value="Big5"/>.
• Page 284: In the diagram and in the text, the possible of specifying a <meta> in a library specification is added.
  
• Page 245: To get the "table" component, one should call getComponent("table") instead of getComponents("table").
• Page 261: Some lines in the diagram are not positioned correctly.
• Page 269: Servie should be service.
• Page 272, 282: getLink() is still shown to take a request cycle as a parameter.
• Page 444: The diagram should show hivemind.xml. It was showing the same diagram on page 445.
• Page 451: Remove the bug alert of unable to save a Customer object as a client persistent property.
• Release.

Nov 19, 2005

• Update the first chapter to Tapestry 4 beta 13.
• Page 451: Remove the bug alert of unable to save a Customer object as a client persistent property.
• Page 214: Remove the bug alert of the "class" informal parameter not working.
• Page 46: Show how to use @InitialValue to set the initial value of a property.
• Page 203, 205: Date4U.library is changed to Date4ULibrary.library.
  
• Page 275-277: ServiceEncoding now has a servletPath and a pathInfo.
• Page 275, 285: It is not the link factory that decodes a request.
• Page 278: "There is a restriction servlets" should read "This is a restriction placed by the servlet specification".
• Page 46: Explicitly state that an import statement is required to use annotations.
• Page 123: In the code userExists() should be getUserExists().
• Page 140: Copyright.jwc is not the template. Copyright.html is the template.
• Page 278: <asset-encoder path="/assets/"/> is changed to <asset-encoder path="/assets"/>.
• Page 458: Also need to add servlet-api.jar to the build path.
• Page 264, 269, 270, 272, 279: getLink() doesn't take a request cycle anymore.
• Page 38, 43: The package for the class for the Result page is com.ttdev.stockquote, not mo.org.cpttm.stockquote. 
• Page 76: The package for the class for the Home page is com.ttdev.postage,  not mo.org.cpttm.postage. 
• Page 145: The package for the class for the Box component is com.ttdev.components, not mo.org.cpttm.components.
• Page 155: It should try to read the Copyright.jwc file from c:\workspace\Components\context\WEBINF\classes\com\ttdev\components\Copyright.jwc, not from c:\workspace\Components\context\WEBINF\classes\mo\org\cpttm\components\Copyright.jwc.
• Page 201: The folder structure for the two gif files should be in com/ttdev/date4u, not mo/org/cpttm/date4u inside the dat4u.jar file.
• Page 203: The package for the class for the Home page is com.ttdev.currentdate, not mo.org.cpttm.currentdate. 
• Page 253: The package for the class for the Home page is com.ttdev.phonebook, not mo.org.cpttm.phonebook. 
• Page 437: The package for the Customer class is com.ttdev.customerCRUD, not mo.org.cpttm.customerCRUD 
• Release.
  

Nov 1, 2005

• Page 2: "sored in a retrieval" should be "stored in a retrieval".
  

Oct 30, 2005

• Page 254: Fix a typo "For exampole".

Oct 30, 2005

• Page 22: Fix a typo "Home.pageand".
• Page 24: Package name in screenshot is wrong.
• Page 84: Fix a typo "Yon can".
• Pages 139, 143, 150: Fix a typo "BaseCompnent".
• Page 141: A diagram showing allow-body="no" is not shown.
• Page 144: Figures are on top of each other.
• Page 148, 150, 152, 227: Fix a type "compoent".
• Page 152: Fix a typo "It is interesting is that".
• Page 155: "but why who puts" should be "but who puts".
• Page 164 and 165: In the screenshot, the properties are named "currentDate" and "todayIs" but on page 166, it is shown that the properties are named "current-date" and "today-is". The latter is correct.
• Page 133, 166: Fix a typo "paramter".
• Page 169: "The solution is set it to message:currentDate" is changed to "The solution is to set it to message:current-date".
• Page 172, 181, 183, 185, 187, 189, 196: The <select> for locale selection has an non-standard attribute type="choice" which serves no purpose.
• Page 181: "PageRedirectionException" should be "PageRedirectException".
• Page 199: "Logo_zh_TW.properties.big5" should be "Logo_zh_TW.properties".
• Page 202: "makeProperties" should be "makeJar".
• Page 261: "IMarkupWrite" should be "IMarkupWriter".
• Page 261: "It askes" should be "It asks".
• Page 353: "This time you get a" should be "This time you get an".
• Page 467: In the diagram "Welcome.do" should be "MainMenu.do".
• Page 105: "your visit object must implement Serializable" is changed to "the objects you store into the session must implement Serializable. In this case, as the 'cart' object is an ArrayList which does implement Serializable, so it will be fine". This is because the concept of "visit" is deprecated in Tapestry 4.
• Page 264: Two diagrams are overlapping.
  
• Page 264: The tone is more explicit to indicate that "portlet" is a new concept to be introduced.
• Page 264: "Then Tapestry will return that a" should be "Then Tapestry will return a".
• Page 264: "representing the content for its column in the HTML page" is changed to "representing the content for its window in the HTML page".
• Page 89, 118, 134, use an <a> instead of a <span> for the "detailsLink" component for better preview.
• Page 45: "When Tapestry sees an implemented getter, it will create a property" is changed to "When Tapestry sees an unimplemented getter (either the method is declared abstract or the class is implementing an interface but doesn't provide an implementation for a method), it will create a property".
• Page 39: Add "What if you didn't call activate() at all? Then it would render the current page (Home in this case) as if you had activated it". A diagram is added to show this.
  Page 80: The code in onSubmit() is outdated.
• Page 57: Use the PropertyUtils class to write to a property of a page instead of call the deprecated setProperty() method.
• Page 478: Add more description on how to encode service parameters for the external service.
  
• Release.

Oct 19, 2005

• A diagram is overlapping with the main text.
• Release.

Oct 8, 2005

• Update the first chapter to Tapestry 4 beta 9.
• Use @injectStateFlag to detect logged-in user in chapter 4. No need to introduce SessionScopeManager. The introduction to @injectObject and the concept of Hivemind service are thus postponed to chapter 6.
• Update chapter 4 to show the new project web site navigation.
• Introduce the action listener of Submit in chapter 4. The normal listener is no longer postponed.
• Show the TOC as a PDF bookmark.
• Release.

Oct 7, 2005

• Fix a typo "it usually it" on page 275.

Oct 2, 2005

• Some grid lines are missing in the table on page 281.

Sept 30, 2005

• Remove the extra binding for the "source" parameter on page 242.

Sept 25, 2005

• The stockQuoteForm isn't named in the diagram on page 36.
• Change the text on page 35 to refer to the diagram on page 36.
• Use the extendedPDF plugin to generate a PDF with bookmarks.
• Release.

Sept 21, 2005

• Fix a typo "you no longer uses" on page 457.

Sept 20, 2005

• Format for printing.
• Release.

Sept 19, 2005

• Rewrite the Hibernate chapter completely using a "access-by-ref" model.

Sept 16, 2005

• Fix a typo "to to" on page 401.

Sept 14, 2005

• Fix a typo "one one" on page 350.
• Fix a typo "the the" on page 51, 57, 71, 156, 220.
• Change "create the Result" to "create the Result page" on page 51.

Sept 13, 2005

• Fix a typo "theform" on page 139.

Sept 10, 2005

• The listener prefix was missing for the onOk listener on page 42.
• The listener prefix was missing for the onOk listener on page 42.
• Change Foreach to For on page 78, 82, 128, 194, 195, 197, 198.

Sept 3, 2005

• Change the screenshot on JAVA_HOME to a dialog in English.
• Update the first chapter to Tapestry 4 beta 5. No need to build Tapestry nor get Hivemind from subversion.
• Advice readers not to use the Tomcat exe package.
• Released.

Aug 21, 2005

• Remove the section about org.apache.tapestry.asset.dir and url.
• Move the places where meta properties can be defined from the i18n chapter to the download chapter.
• Make the description on properties in a portlet response clearer.