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Release 1.0 - January 1, 2005

Type	Changes	By
	Fixed some remaining https issues when saving exported files in Internet Explorer with the export filter enabled.	fgiust
	autolink working with https://, ftp://, etc. Fixes DISPL-150.	fgiust
	Column body is not rendered when requesting an invalid page. Fixes DISPL-136.	fgiust
	I18n Struts Adapter now works with Struts 1.1. Fixes DISPL-149.	fgiust
	Performance optimization: reduce the use of temporary StringBuffers while building the html table. Fixes DISPL-156.	fgiust
	Sporadic error with factory.requestHelper. Fixes DISPL-148.	fgiust
	DisplayTag is now able to load displaytag.properties from a different classloader (allows displaytag.jar to be placed in appserver shared libs). Fixes DISPL-144.	fgiust
	Center of paging banner number. Fixes DISPL-109.	fgiust
	Tag holding references to resources. Fixes DISPL-145.	fgiust
	Export of nested tables: now you can export the parent table without errors; nested tables are not included during export. Fixes DISPL-142.	fgiust

Release 1.0-rc2 - November 19, 2004

Type	Changes	By
	getListIndex() in tableDecorator now correctly returns the index in the original list. Fixes 962448.	fgiust
	Proper encoding of URLs under JDK 1.4. Fixes 1006229. Thanks to Konstantin .	fgiust
	Properties are looked up according to the locale of the request. More specific locales override more general locales on a key by key basis, so that, if a key is not present in the most specific locale file for a request, the tag will search through the more general files until the key is found.	rapruitt
	NullpointerException in HeaderCell. Fixes 1020948.	fgiust
	Param values not URLEncoded. Fixes 1016089.	fgiust
	Exported output can now optionally be written directly (both with or without the export filter) and not buffered. Fixes DISPL-22.	fgiust
	Export filter not working in WebLogic. Fixes DISPL-21.	fgiust
	Export system has been reworked, allowing registration of user-defined export views. A PDF export view has been added as an example (note that PDF export is not enabled by default in the distribution: you need to set the export.pdf=trueconfig parameter and include the required libraries). Public APIs for export views have changed (a new interface has been added). Fixes DISPL-13. Thanks to Ivan Markov .	fgiust
	Algorithm in org.displaytag.util.ParamEncoder produces easily colliding keys. Fixes DISPL-12.	fgiust
	Enable / disable param forwarding. A new excludedParamsattribute has been added to the table tag, which allows you to specify the list of parameters which should not be forwarded during paging or sorting. *matches any parameter. Fixes DISPL-35.	fgiust
	The titleKeycolumn attribute has been added to the standard version of the taglib too. The i18n support for titleKey has been refactored, adding a configurable resource provider which can wrap the localization support of any used frameworks (JSTL, Struts, Spring adapter are included, other can be added be users). Fixes DISPL-53.	fgiust
	display-el:column titleKey not Resin compatible. Fixes DISPL-15.	fgiust
	Error: mediaType is already defined. To avoid errors when nested tables are used, the current mediaType is no more declared as a compile-time variable. This means that you can still retrieve the current media type using pageContext.getAttribute("mediaType")but not using a scriptlet like <%=mediaType%>. If you previously used this sintax you will have to fix your jsps when upgrading to 1.0 rc2. Fixes DISPL-6.	fgiust
	The nameattribute in the EL version of table Tag will now work both with EL expressions and with the "standard" displaytag sintax.	fgiust
	Column JSP body should only execute for rows being shown. Now column body is skipped if current row is not needed for display or sorting (be careful, if you sort the full list row need to be evaluated). Fixes DISPL-3.	fgiust
	Send user back to Page 1 on Desc/Asc. Fixes DISPL-9.	fgiust
	More params for paging.banner.*_items_found. Fixes DISPL-26.	fgiust
	Html tags in "title" attribute when using maxLength. Fixes DISPL-4.	fgiust
	Autolink and maxlength problem. Fixes DISPL-1.	fgiust
	Unicode export with ResponseOverrideFilter fails because of improper content length setting. Fixes DISPL-73. Thanks to Mikko Wilkman .	fgiust
	Ability to use java var in id attribute in tabletag. A new uidattribute has been added for jsp 1.0 containers (look at the FAQ for more details). Fixes DISPL-2.	fgiust
	New htmlIdattribute which let you specify the value for the id attribute in the generated table.	fgiust
	Webwork i18n support. Fixes DISPL-106. Thanks to Richard HALLIER .	fgiust
	Need ability to disable prepending of context to the contents of the requestURI attribute. New requestURIcontexttable attribute added. Fixes DISPL-104.	fgiust
	Using ColumnDecorator with tag body. Fixes DISPL-81.	fgiust
	New sortPropertyattribute in column tag: specify property used for sorting. Fixes DISPL-58.	fgiust
	Allow ColumnTag to generate links to current page. Fixes DISPL-117.	fgiust
	Allow requestURI with only parameters. Fixes DISPL-112. Thanks to Paul McCulloch .	fgiust
	Allow column href also if paramId is not defined. Fixes DISPL-130.	fgiust

Release 1.0-rc1 - July 11, 2004

Type	Changes	By
	The EL version of the taglib has been refactored and cleaned up. All the attributes, except deprecated ones, now accept EL expressions.	fgiust
	Improved attribute value handling following specifications for tag pooling. Should fix issues with Resin. Fixes 927804.	fgiust
	Modified attribute type specification in tld to match setters in tag classes and added unit tests. Fixes validation issues with WebLogic 8.	fgiust
	Added support for indexed/mapped properties in table decorators. Fixes 926213.	fgiust
	MaxLength not working with double quo tes. Fixes 920115.	fgiust
	New property basic.msg.empty_list_rowwhich let you customize the message for an empty table while using basic.empty.showtable = true. This also allows you to customize the previously fixed "empty" css class.	fgiust
	Export links are not shown for empty tables. Fixes 895915.	fgiust
	ResponseOverrideFilter sets a bad contentType when charset is already specified. Fixes 921811.	fgiust
	Reset headers during export. This allows export with https and should fix reported problems with Tomcat 5.0. Fixes 938653.	fgiust
	Wrong tfoot position. Fixes 944863.	fgiust
	Fixed export.decorated property. Fixes 842234.	fgiust
	Context path is automatically added to "requestURI" table attribute (only if link starts with "/").	fgiust
	The "url" column attribute, already available in the EL version form 1.0-b3, has been moved to the standard library. The "url" attribute has the same meaning as the "href" attribute, but always prepends the context path to the URI. Fixes 894839.	fgiust
	Column:autolink throwing exception or garbling urls. Fixes 952129.	fgiust
	Pagination urls parameters wrong for multiple table on the same page. Fixes 944056. Thanks to Sylvere Abbad .	fgiust
	Unable to set the table "name" attribute in jsp 1.1 containers after release 1.0-b3 ("Unable to convert a String to java.lang.Object for attribute value" error). Fixes 947752.	fgiust
	The export filter now only filters when needed. Response is not buffered when a special parameter inserted by displaytag in export links is not found. Fixes 958053.	fgiust
	Export cancel out UTF8 filter. Now headers are not reset during an export request. Only headers which could prevent caching are overwritten. Fixes 968559.	fgiust
	Automatic column discovery is turned off for Strings. Avoid displaying a single column " Bytes" when the source collection contains Strings.	fgiust

Release 1.0-b3 - April 12, 2004

Type	Changes	By
	The export filter introduced in b2 has been modified to avoid errors in Websphere 4 (or in any j2ee 1.2 containers, where the filter can't be used).	rapruitt
	MediaTypeEnum has been moved to the org.displaytag.properties package. You will need to fix your imports if you started using with in the b2 release.	fgiust
	All the css classes in the table tag are now customizable. You can change the original even, odd, sorted, order1, order2classes and also configure a css class to be added to any table or to any sortable column. Fixes 851250.	fgiust
	Added the "defaultsort" attribute to change the sorting order for the default sorted column. Fixes 867217.	fgiust
	Added a new configuration property basic.empty.showtablewhich let you choose if you want to display the table if the underlining list is empty.	fgiust
	Breaks on '%' in values. Fixes 840728. Thanks to David Kowis .	fgiust
	paramProperty is wrong when not fetched from iterated object. Fixes 849207.	fgiust
	requestURI parameters are overwritten by current values. Fixes 858888.	fgiust
	Added the export.[exporttype ] .filename property.	fgiust
	Export error - Filter not working (wrong constant name). Fixes 882056.	fgiust
	Added the "style" attribute to column tag. Fixes 887787.	fgiust
	Export filter was not preserving the locale setting. Fixes 860387.	rapruitt
	Export filter failed under Weblogic; fixed. Fixes 886495.	rapruitt
	RequestURI attribute does not handle anchors ('#') properly. Fixes 897946.	fgiust
	Sortable attribute not working. Fixes 873684.	fgiust
	Added a captiontag to display a table caption. Fixes 886050.	fgiust
	A new org.displaytag.util.ParamEncoderclass has been added, to allow users to generate encoded parameter names like tabletag does. Important! From now tables in the same pages which use the sorting, paging or exporting feature MUST have a different ID	fgiust
	Added the new sort.amountconfiguration property.	fgiust
	Switching from Cactus to Servletunit tests. Servletunit tests resulted simpler to implement and more effective in testing tag output.	fgiust
	Test coverage reports added to the build. Free license for the displaytag project kindly donated by Clover.	fgiust
	Two /tbody generated. Fixes 891070.	fgiust
	Support for arrays of Maps has been added in automatic column discovery. If you pass an array of map objects to the table tag the list of columns will be generated from the keys of the first map in the array. This allows to use the result of a jstl sql:query tag in a display:table without columns (use result .rows in the name attribute).	fgiust
	Added Expression Support ala JSTL. To use it, just specify your taglib URI to be http://displaytag.sf.net/el. The EL sintax is replacing the old proprietary sintax in the table "name" attribute. Note that the old scopeand propertyattributes are no more supported in the EL version of the tag. EL support in this release is preliminary and it's due to change in next releases. Thanks to Tim McCune .	mraible
	Added to the EL taglib only a "titleKey" attribute which will lookup it's value as a key in a JSTL bundle (declared using the < fmt:bundle tag or in your web.xml).	mraible
	Added to the EL taglib only a "url" attribute is an enhancement to the "href" attribute which prepends the contextPath.	mraible
	URLs now include session information for page links, sort links, urls set with "requestURI" or "href". Also fixes reported NPE in tomcat. Fixes 902399.	fgiust
	Binary releases are now compatible both with the 2.1 and 3.0 version of common-collections. Fixes 879038.	fgiust
	RequestHelper implementation is now configurable and can be replaced by a user-defined one. This allows users to plug-in specific implementations. See the configuration page and the RequestHelper javadocs for more info. Fixes 917569.	fgiust
	Error in paging for URLs containing "{}". Fixes 917200.	fgiust
	You can now set a property value in the body of a setProperty tag, instead of using the "value" attribute.	fgiust

Release 1.0-b2 - December 8, 2003

Type	Changes	By
	Invalid xhtml if empty list. Fixes 814470.	fgiust
	paging.banner.placement property. Fixes 749119.	fgiust
	Automatic column discovery when no columns are defined. Instead of the simple output with the object toString() and the message "please define column tags", the table tag will automatically add columns mapped to object properties. This is especially useful in development to quickly see and test available properties.	fgiust
	The following methods in TableDecorator are now correctly declared as final: getViewIndex(), getListIndex(), initRow(Object, int, int), getCurrentRowObject(). These methods should never be extended in subclasses of TableDecorator.	fgiust
	Removed the valueproperty of ColumnTag. This was totally undocumented in previous versions and is now useless.	fgiust
	Body not cleared with pooled ColumnTags. Fixes 823383.	fgiust
	Sorting with table decorators. Fixes 814058.	fgiust
	Parameters not preserved in requestURI. Fixes 830652.	fgiust
	Added a check for availability of correct version on commons-lang: a message is displayed if a wrong versio n is used.	rapruitt
	New jsp 1.2 tld is available. Tag reference documentation is automatically produced from dtd.	rapruitt
	Column JSP body should not execute if the list is empty. Fixes 814462.	fgiust
	Added filter (only for j2ee 1.3 containers) to allow exports from inside of an included JSP page. See the install docs and javadocs for more information. Fixes 820763.	rapruitt
	Exported data is now properly escaped for the output format.	fgiust
	Include header in excel export. Fixes 773162.	fgiust
	Properties inheritance between table decorators. Fixes 840011.	fgiust
	User properties can now be loaded from files when deployed in unexploded WAR. Fixes 831806.	rapruitt
	Altered the properties search process. Properties in the file displaytag.properties will now override properties from TableTag.properties. Users can add additional properties via the TableProperties#setUserProperties() method.	rapruitt
	Added media attribute to ColumnTag. Broadened ExportTypeEnum to also cover the HTML case; renamed to MediaTypeEnum. Current mediaType exposed via scripting variable 'mediaType'. This can be used in column content to generate output based on madia type (don't output html when exporting and so on).	rapruitt

Release 1.0-b1 - September 22, 2003

Type	Changes	By
	Mavenized! Thanks to Didier Dubois for the help on migrating the build system to maven.	fgiust
	Totally refactored/rewritten. The whole library has been rewritten, improved package structure, code quality, logging and exception handling.	fgiust
	Major addiction: the table tag works now also with an iterator approach, letting you specify content in the body of the column tag.	fgiust
	Better html output. The rendered html code is now completely xhtml STRICT compliant. Some of the css classes have been changed, check the docs for upgrading from previous versions.	fgiust
	Global configuration with a user supplied properties file (configured in web.xml) which lets you personalize most of the tag output.	fgiust
	Link attributes are encoded to let you use more table in the same page with independent paging, sorting and exporting. You can also put nested display:table tag!	fgiust
	Link parameters are preserved in paging/sorting. Paging will always keep the correct order, and it will also maintain the correct order/page for all the table displayed.	fgiust
	Example site refactored (xhtml strict+css), added new samples.	fgiust
	It's now possible to define objects/nested attributes with the beanutils style language + scope (ex. sessionScope.list.value.attribute(name).item[1 ] = session.getAttribute("list").getValue().getAttribute("name").getItem[1 ] ).	fgiust
	Lots of small changes/addiction: renamed attributes "styleClass" to standard "class" ("styleClass" is retained but deprecated) added "defaultsort" attribute to specify the default sorted column	fgiust

Release 0.8.6 - September 21, 2003

Type	Changes	By
	Fixed export of full list
	Compiled binaries are compatible with jre 1.3 (8.5 version was not working on jre 1.3 due to optimized 1.4 compilation).

Release 0.8.5 - March 23, 2003

Type	Changes	By
	Allow column elements to be nested inside other tags. Thanks to Luiz-Otavio Zorzella .	Luiz-Otavio Zorzella
	In decorators, added method getCollection() to allow for Collections, Iterators and Maps to be used as well as Lists. Thanks to Luiz-Otavio Zorzella .	Luiz-Otavio Zorzella
	Original table tag only works with Lists. Now works with Collections, Iterators and Maps as well (though some functions, like group totals are not available to these, due to limitations on the structures themselves). Thanks to Luiz-Otavio Zorzella .	Luiz-Otavio Zorzella
	Added star tRow() to the decorator API to allow people to put headers on groupings as well as footers.	ed-hill
	Fixed a caching bug in with tables that had multiple pages, the pageNumber is now reset to 1 in the tag object.	ed-hill
	Fixed various with URL rewriting (? vs & ).	ed-hill
	Correct error message on bean property lookups.	ed-hill
	Build/Deploy process updates to be more dynamic.	mraible

Release 0.8 - May 25, 2002

Type	Changes	By
	added various properties that can be override that effect the default strings and behaviors of table, here are some brief examples of message and behaviors that you can now set, see examples-config.jsp for a complete list [!! ] basic.show.header - include the header at the top of the table basic.msg.empty_list - string displayed when there are no items to show sort.behavior - sort just viewable items, or entire list export.banner - message format shown in footer, you can localize export.csv - include CSV export option export.csv.label - name of link (localize) export.csv.include_header - include the column titles in the export? export.amount - export just the page of data or the complete list export.decorated - decorate the data as it is exported?
	introduced two new column attributes "maxLength", "maxWords" that will restrict the size of strings being shown in a column.	mraible
	introduced new column attribute "headerStyleClass" that allows you to override the class name used in drawing the table's header cell for that column.
	introduced ColumnDecorators - you can now decorate individual columns, this makes it easier for you to define reusable DateFmt, MoneyFmt, etc... decorators rather then developing a customer decorator for each table. Note, the decorator interface is still not to my liking, expect changes before this tag gets a 1.0 release. Thanks to Jay Paulsen .	jay-paulsen
	fixed a bug, where nulls were *not* being suppressed like they should be in the display, now nulls will only be shown if you specify the nulls attribute of the column tag.	mraible
	fixed my web.xml files in the various wars - they were not compliant and Tomcat would barf while deploying them - I'm now testing under JRun 3.1/4.0 and Tomcat 4.0.4b3. Thanks to Joachim Martin .	Joachim Martin
	fixed bug in example-styles.jsp, was using a variable "page" which is a rarely used standard JSP variable (JRun didn't care, Tomcat did), just renamed the variable so that example runs under Tomcat. Thanks to Joachim Martin .	Joachim Martin
	fixed bug that prevented the first column from being sorted in both ascending and descending order
	fixed a problem where a decorated table would interfere with fetching the source list on subsequent fetches
	bug was introduced in 0.7 that prevented a decorated ob ject from being exported correctly, that has been fixed
	bug was introduced in 0.7 that prevented a decorated object from being sorted correctly, that has been fixed
	included a copy of the Artistic license that this program is distributed under

Release 0.7 - March 10, 2002

Type	Changes	By
	added the requestURI attribute, so that you could tell the table tag what URI was used to call it.
	fixed some exporting bugs, added the ability to export in XML, although at this stage it is very crude.
	fixed sorting so that it sorts in both ascending and descending order based on multiple title clicks.
	updated all of the example jsp pages with a link that people can click on to view that pages source. Also re-organized the pages so that the example table was always at the top of the page as the first thing you saw, and the commentary behind the example followed.
	The table tag now properly expects any decorators used to be children of the org.apache.taglibs.display.TableDecorator class (it was in the wrong package before). Reported by everyone...
	Underscore is not a legal character in CSS, so the various style names and attributes where changes to be in uppercase format. - table_c ell -> tableCell - table_row_odd -> tableRowOdd - table_row_even -> tableRowEven - table_row_action -> tableRowAction - table_cell_action -> tableCellAction - table_row_header -> tableRowHeader - table_cell_header -> tableCellHeader.	mraible
	Cleaned up the other examples that were incomplete. Fixed broken links, etc...
	Cloned the ColumnTags as I added them to the TableTag so that the table tag works correctly with web containers that reuse tags as an optimization. (Resin and Weblogic, probably others). This bug would manifest itself with multiple duplicated columns. Thanks to Jim Canter .	Jim Canter
	flushed out the example-export example that shows how to automatically export data to CSV, excel and XML formats.
	flushed out the example-callback example that shows how to use a decorator to implement summing and totaling... The functionality was included in the original version, but there wasn't an example that showed how to use it.
	fixed a NPE if you passed the table tag a null list.
	updated the example-grouping.jsp page to show a more report oriented example.
	Included the pointer to the 2.2 DTD in the web.xml files. Thanks to Rob Evans .
	added 'flush="true"' to all of my jsp:includes in my examples to be more in sync with the JSP 1.1 spec. Thanks to Dirk Storck .

Release 0 - Jan 7th, 2002

Type	Changes	By
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