Stripes 1.4 includes new features and major improvements in several areas, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. Stripes 1.4 is backwards compatible with previous releases.

Major Changes

• Character Set Handling: Using a simple syntax it is now possible to specify the character set encoding to use for each Locale that a Stripes application supports, and Stripes will ensure the encoding is used for a interactions with both the request and response
• Advanced Generics: Support for advanced generic type information in property binding, including nested generics declarations (e.g. Maps of Maps of Lists), type variables (e.g. List<T>) and wildcard types (e.g. List<? extends Number>
• Support for Includes: Stripes now fully supports invoking ActionBeans through includes
• Pluggable File Upload Support: File upload/multipart parsing code is now pluggable. Built in implementations include COS and Commons File Upload
• Improved Spring Integration: Stripes can now inject beans using Field access (as opposed to property/method access). In addition Stripes can also now inject Spring beans using non-public methods and fields where requested
• No More OGNL: Removal of the dependency on OGNL

The removal of OGNL has significant benefits for users. Most obviously Stripes has one fewer dependency, which means easier installs and upgrades (Stripes is now down to two external dependencies). In addition the re-implementation of the (small) subset of OGNL features used internally by Stripes has led to significant performance improvements. But perhaps most compelling is the fact that Stripes can now handle situations that were awkward at best and impossible at worst with OGNL, including significantly better handling of Java 1.5 generics.

Download

Stripes 1.4 can be accessed from the Download page.

JIRA Changelog

MC4J (42 issues)
T	Key	Summary	Pr	Status	Res
	STS-91	Including pages doesn't work		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-129	Enhancements to stripes:useActionBean tag		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-151	Ability for stripes:options-collection to localize values		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-154	Can we add a focus attribute to stripes:form just like struts:form does?		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-161	Make the timeout interval for flash scopes configurable or modifiable		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-169	StripesRequestWrapper's characterEncoding is null,it causes worng charater Encoding		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-171	problem in OgnlCustomNullHandler when dealing with generics-based setters		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-177	Using a Map with a Key(length=1) produces ClassCastExceptions		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-185	Cleaner way to access the ServletContext object when it is needed		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-187	Proposal for URL tag		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-189	Provide an alternative population strategy that prefers the ActionBean properties when there are no errors		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-190	Add a LifeCycleStage to wrap the execution of the Resolution		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-192	StreamResolution needs setCharacterEncoding() method		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-200	Refactor reflective code out into ReflectUtil		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-201	Make it possible for @Before and @After annotations to execute non-public methods		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-207	Add ActionBeanContext.getServletContext() and/or ActionBeanContext.log()		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-208	<stripes:option> broken when value attribute omitted		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-209	NameBasedActionResolver.findView broken for some URLs		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-210	Improved locale-based character-encoding handling		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-212	ForwardResolution does respect the event parameter		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-213	Parameter binding should proceed in order of the length of the parameter name		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-214	Support arbitrary types/classes for keys in Maps in ActionBeans		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-215	NullPointerException sometimes in FileBean.save(File)		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-216	Using a RedirectResolution to redirect to an anchor within a page doesn't work when includeRequestParameters is true		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-217	ExceptionHandler interface should declare throws IOException as well as ServletException		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-218	Add a Interceptor base class that integrates spring injection support		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-219	Incorrect behavior when using JavaScriptResolution on an object with two empty collections		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-220	JavaScriptResolution incorrectly renders String key values for a map		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-222	NPE in JavaScriptBuilder.isScalarType		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-225	All request properties with names starting with 'context' are ignored during binding		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-226	Incorrect Package Splitting		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-228	Remove use of OGNL and replace with build in property/bean utils code		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-229	ActionBean request attribute not set correctly when rendering multiple <jsp:includes> of ActionBeans		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-230	IllegalArgumentException in NumberTypeConverterSupport if locale is missing language		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-232	Upgrade commons logging dependency to version 1.1		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-233	Event Handler calling using single hidden input		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-234	Make type conversion code easier to re-use by including dummy converters for String, Object and possibly Character		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-235	multipart/form-data without file upload		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-236	Way to specify the start event(s) in a wizard so that stripes to make it easier to start wizard flows		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-237	Make StreamingResolution easier to subclass		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-241	Make the multipart parsing code pluggable so the dependency on COS is optional		Resolved	FIXED
	STS-248	Allow spring bean injection through field access, and through non-public methods when requested		Resolved	FIXED