Version notes 1.9.0

• tag i18n now accepts the key in the body as well as through the key attribute. That's to allow dynamic keys, something like:

  <mtw:i18n>
     <mtw:out value="something" />
  </mtw:i18n>
  

  
  
• method LocaleManager.setDir to change the default location of the i18n files. (Default = "/i18n")
  
  So to set it to be inside the WEB-INF directory, you can do: LocaleManager.setDir("WEB-INF/i18n");
• New I18nListData, now you can select what elements from i18n file you wanna show.
• The ListManager is now able to convert a java 5 enumeration into a ListData.
• Now you can add a filter specific to an action (ActionConfig) that will be executed BEFORE any global filter.

  action("/Foo", FooAction.class)
      .filterFirst(new ValidatorFilter(VAL_ERROR))
      .on(SUCCESS, fwd("/cool.jsp")
      .on(ERROR, fws("/nocool.jsp");
  

  
  
• Improvement in the exceptions, in other words, now you will see the correct exception in your browser even when it happened through a reflection call (and not the InvocationTargetException that does not tell you anything!)
• Debug logs throughout the code, specially on DIFilter, so that you can turn on DEBUG and see how the filter is operating.
• Paginator Tag improvements: http://paginator.mentaframework.org/
• CollectionFilter to turn a list of html parameters into a collection.
  
  Ex:
  

  <input name="name1">
  <input name="name2">
  <input name="name3">
  ...
  <input name="name10">
  

  
  
  
  You can add:
  
  filter(new CollectionFilter("name"));
  
  and get a collection from the action input:
  
  Collection coll = (Collection) input.getValue("name");
  
  Note: They will be in order and if there is a gap in the sequence, the value of the gap will be null in the collection.
  
• MultiApplicationManager to load different application managers for the same application.

  public class ApplicationManager extends MultiApplicationManager {
    
    	public void registerManagers() {
    		register(ModuleOneApplicationManager.class);
    		register(ModuleTwoApplicationManager.class);
    		register(ModuleThreeApplicationManager.class);
    	}
  }
  

  
  
• New Ajaxtags inside the org.mentawai.ajaxtag package.
• LocaleManager.setDefaultDateMask("dd/MM/yyyy") and LocaleManager.setDateMask(Locale loc, String mask) so that you can set the default date mask and a date mask specific of that locale. Date mask will be used with a SimpleDateFormat to convert a date.
• ApplicationManager.setViewDir to set up a directory where all JSPs will reside.
  
  Ex:
  
  setViewDir("/WEB-INF/jsp");
  
  so a new Forward("/hello.jsp") will go to:
  
  /WEB-INF/jsp/hello.jsp
  
• !!!! - Now inner actions can also be defined as Java inner classes (static or non-static) !!! Check the HelloInnerActions example below:

  package examples.inneractions;
  
  import java.util.*;
  
  import org.mentawai.core.*;
  
  public class HelloInnerActions extends BaseAction {
  	
  	public String execute() throws Exception {
  		output.setValue("speak", "Hello there!");
  		return SUCCESS;
  	}
  	
  	public String sayBye() throws Exception {
  		output.setValue("speak", "Bye for now...");
  		return SUCCESS;
  	}
  	
  	public class SayBye2 extends BaseAction {
  		
  		public String execute() throws Exception {
  			
  			output.setValue("speak", "Bye for now from SayBye2 inner action class!");
  			
  			return SUCCESS;
  			
  		}
  		
  	}
  	
  	public static class SayBye3 extends BaseAction {
  		
  		public String execute() throws Exception {
  			
  			output.setValue("speak", "Bye for now from SayBye3 static inner action class!");
  			
  			return SUCCESS;
  			
  		}
  	}
  }
  	
  

  
  
• min and max for DateRule (validation)
• add support to JPA through the JpaFilter and JpaTrasaction
• new LocalizedListData (similar to SimpleListData but with support to internationalization)
• new DBListData if you want to load your lists from your database easily
• improvements in the ExceptionFilter + FAQ (http://forum.mentaframework.org/posts/list/1096.page)
• FormatterManager.setFixedDateFormatter(Formatter f) so you can fix a date formatter to be used for all dates throughout your application (mtw:out and mtw:inputDate)