Click 1.5 Milestone 1 released!

Click 1.5 Milestone 1 has been released yesterday. This is the first installment in the 1.5 development branch and provides a host of new features. Important links:

• Click Home
• Roadmap and Changes
• Upgrade Path - please see the upgrade path when upgrading from a previous release.
• Download Click1.5
• Maven bundles
  
• Live examples

Highlights for 1.5-M1 include:

• Container - new interface for building arbitrary complex, hierarchical Controls.
• Services - Click core has been refactored into pluggable services.
• Added Freemarker support as an alternative templating engine to Velocity. See FreemarkerTemplateService for configuration details.
  
• Mock Test Support - introduces an easy to use package to write Unit and Functional Tests.
• A new Powered by Click section was added. If you would like to add your own site to this list, please send us a mail to one of our Mailing Lists, or directly to "sabob1 at gmail.com".
• More examples and documentation.

New Examples:

• Country Select field
• Custom Form Layout using Containers
• Virtual Keyboard field
• Excel Export Demo
• JSP - Edit Customer
• JSP - Navigation
• JSP - Multi Path Demo

New documentation:

• Container
• Template vs Container layout
• Click Runtime Services
• Mock Test Support

Issues resolved:

• Improved performance by rendering from a single non-blocking buffer.
  
• Added a Country Select control based on the JDK's own built in Country/Locale support.
• Added a Virtual Keyboard control using GreyWyvern JavaScript library.
• Added support for setting Form action URL attribute. This issue was raised by Erdem Gunay [319].
• Added support for Page HTML imports with a new getHtmlImports() method. This enables Pages to programatically define HTML imports which will be included in a border template using the PageImports object. This issue was raised by David Frizelle [329].
• Add Page setTemplate(String) method to enable dynamic changing of a page border template. This issue was raised by Huy Do [353].
• Updated Page.setPath to handle JSP resources. This issue was raised and fixed by Huy Do. [141].
• Added support for Hibernate AnnocationConfiguration. This issue was fixed by Jean-Francois. [355].
• Improved FileUpload support. This issue was raised by Ricardo Lecheta [326].
• Improve File Upload support with new FileUploadService class. [326].
• Fixed Cayenne PropertySelect which is not reset to original value. This is was raised by Tore Halset [317].
• Fixed Cayenne 3.0M3 DataObjectUtils issue in CayenneForm when using JDK 1.5. Added CayenneUtils helper class [342].

Enjoy.

The Click team.