Version 4m1 of OpenXava
Release Notes: Popup dialogs are supported by means of the show-dialog and hide-dialog attributes for <action /> in controllers.xml. A dialog is used for searching, creating, or modifying a reference. Image editor and Image gallery editor use a dialog to upload the files. There is a new checkbox in the list to select and deselect all rows at once. The reference guide in Russian has been improved. Support for EntityBeans CMP2 and Java 1.4 has been dropped. There are over 30 new features and fixes.
Other releases
Release Notes: 'My reports' actions store all the generated reports, so the user can get them by name later. WebSphere Portal 8 support, including visual style integration. WebSphere 8 support. Liferay 6.1 support. A 30% performance improvement in automated module tests. Many more new features and fixes.
Release Notes: This release added IWithMessage, which is implemented by validators to get the messages from @Required, @PropertyValidator, and @EntityValidator. The new layout engine was improved, though it is still in beta and deactivated by default. Many bugs were fixed, including issues with @Inject in "on change" actions, storing of columns in collections with @AsEmbedded, and some IE problems.
Release Notes: Custom reports generation from a list. It’s possible to customize the list mode defining your own editor. You can assign a model object (an entity or a transient object) directly to a View to populate it. In the jUnit tests, you can assert the content of generated PDFs. New @RowAction annotation for collections. Labels and messages are available in Russian. The file name for generated reports includes model name and time. Many more new features and fixes.
Release Notes: Focus order only includes editors. Actions, links, tabs, etc. are excluded. SimpleHTMLReportAction extends SimpleTemplaterAction to be able to use SimpleTemplater in email messages. Documentation for @Tree is improved. Focus is not set in the first load of detail only modules. Navigating among objects with references with inheritance no longer produces a system error. New in a model with a reference with inheritance does not reset the reference view to the base model. Searching from a reference with inheritance did not always show all the objects of the hierarchy. There are many more bugfixes.
Release Notes: Support for all strategies of JPA inheritance mapping. Data for list and collections is obtained via JPA before JDBC is used. An Automated Business Logic (ABL) library has been added. There is a new layout architecture (the code that paints the UI); it is still in beta, but can be activated with layout.painter in xava.properties. There are many other useful new features and bugfixes.
