| Version | Date | Description |
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| 2.4.3 | June 1, 2007 | Bug fix release |
| 2.4.2 | October 18, 2006 | Bug fixes, particular for Velocity+Security and CSS Menus |
| 2.4.1 | July 09, 2006 | Bug fixes, especially for Velocity-based menus |
| 2.4 | May 10, 2006 | Bug fixes and performance improvements |
| 2.3 | September 27, 2004 | Complete de-coupling from Struts and various bug fixes. |
| 2.2 | March 30, 2004 | Dynamic Menus from database, usable outside of Struts and various EL enhancements |
| 2.1 | December 20, 2003 | 2.1 uses JSTL for variables and fixes some other bugs |
| 2.0 | November 30, 2003 | 2.0 is a refactoring to use Velocity templates |
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SM-64 URLs not properly encoded when cookies are off and using a non-Struts web framework. | mraible |
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SM-68 PermissionAdapter not firing for lowest menu level. | mraible |
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SM-77 Closing < /ul > tag does not match in CSSListMenuDisplayer when Menu item doesn't have children allowed to view. | mraible |
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SM-79 Menus with duplicate names not showing up properly. | mraible |
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SM-81 When target is used with Velocity CSS Menu there is no space between target and style attribute. | mraible |
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SM-25 Changed VelocityDisplayer to use a VelocityEngine instance instead of the singleton Velocity. | mraible |
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SM-26 Fixed tabs.css so submenus render in correct position when content is above menu. | mraible |
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SM-48 Modified CSSListMenuDisplayer to correctly handle menu tags without location, action or page. | mraible |
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SM-50 Fixed UseMenuDisplayerTag so id attribute doesn't throw NPE on Tomcat 4.x and WebLogic 8.1. | mraible |
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SM-57 Fixed CSSListMenuDisplayer so it doesn't invalid XHTML when a submenu contains items for which the user has no permissions to see. | mraible |
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SM-58 Fixed VelocityDisplayer so removing menu items for a particular role effects doesn't affect all users. | mraible |
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For a full list of issues fixed in 2.4, please see the detailed release notes . |
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Fixed VelocityMenuDisplayer so it properly updates parent menus when setting permissions on menus. | mraible |
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Fixed CSSMenuDisplayer to allow menu items without URL-related attributes. | mraible |
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Fixed CSSMenuDisplayer (and Velocity templates that produce CSS-based menus) to include style="width: 000px" when "width" attribute exists. | mraible |
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Fixed issue where MenuRepository required Velocity in classpath, even when not using VelocityDisplayer. | mraible |
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Added "module" attribute for using with Struts' modules feature. Thanks to Tim Morrow. | mraible |
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Added URL Rewriting when cookies are off. | mraible |
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Added replacement for CoolMenus4 that's based purely on CSS (and some JavaScript for IE). See SM-9 for more information. | mraible |
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Removed hard-coding of < div > id's for ListMenuDisplayer. Added "id" attribute to useMenuDisplayer tag that allows you to give menus unique ids. Modified CoolMenus4 and List/Tabbed/CSS Displayers to handle this. | mraible |
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Major performance improvements to VelocityMenuDisplayer and EL Tags. | mraible |
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Turned on Velocity caching by default and fixed displayer so you can override individual properties in velocity.properties. | mraible |
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Changed FastHashMap in MenuRepository to LinkedMap so displayers and menus retain the order they were added in. Used LinkedMap instead of LinkedHashMap to maintain JDK 1.3 compatibility. | mraible |
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Fixed DHTML DropDown Menu to work with submenus. Thanks to Ryan Tyer. | mraible |
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Fixed bug in CoolMenuDisplayer4 so menu names with "." in them would be replaced with "_" to prevent JavaScript errors. | mraible |
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Fixed bug in CoolMenuDisplayer4 - onclick argument was not in correct location. Thanks to Paul Gilowey. | mraible |
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For a full list of issues fixed in 2.4, please see the detailed release notes . |
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Changed various classes to remove dependencies on struts.jar for non-Struts webapps. | mraible |
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Fixed issue with DropDownMenuDisplayer and JavaScript . Thanks to Andriy Ruzhevych. | mraible |
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Added missing keys to DisplayerStrings.properties . I don't know what these are supposed to be, but adding empty values removes "null" from the rendered menu. Fixes 802709. Thanks to Colm OFlaherty. | mraible |
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Added check to see if menu/item is allowed in all displayers. Fixes 740959. Thanks to balkanboy. | mraible |
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Added "target" and "onclick" attributes to tabbed and lis t menus. Fixes 857215. | mraible |
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Corrected script tag for CoolMenuDisplayer. Fixes 872381. Thanks to edollin. | mraible |
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Removed .classpath and .project files. To generate, use "maven eclipse". Fixes 894585. Thanks to edollin. | mraible |
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Removed unused jsMenu class variable in ListMenuDisplayer. Fixes 906585. Thanks to free2create. | mraible |
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Cleaned up HTML in DisplayerStrings.properties to remove HTML errors. Fixes 906782. Thanks to free2create. | mraible |
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Fixed bug in MenuRepository where initDigester() method treats levels 6 and 7 the same as level 5. Fixes 965985. Thanks to sshah. | mraible |
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Removed toString() and hashCode() methods from MenuComponent since they were causing a StackOverflowError. Fixes 980007. Thanks to Paul Hu. | mraible |
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Added cookies to remember expanded menus in DropDownDisplayer. Fixes 702619. Thanks to edollin. | mraible |
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Added ability to add links to base items in Expandable List Menu. The plus icon will expand the menu, the link will take you to the URL (if one exists). Fixes 994316. Thanks to sparecreative. | mraible |
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Fixed .classpath file by using "maven eclipse". Fixes 999248. Thanks to v912485. | mraible |
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Added 'align' property to MenuBase for use with CoolMe nuDisplayer4. Fixes 1023969. Thanks to free2create. | mraible |
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Fixed padding issue with tabs and spacing b/w IE and Mozilla. Fixes 1011508. Thanks to festerwim. | mraible |
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Moved demo site from http://raibledesigns.com/struts-menu to http://demo.raibledesigns.com/struts-menu . | mraible |
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Added support for plain ol' ResourceBundles and JSTL's Resource Bundle. The EL tag defaults to JSTL's ResourceBundle if no "bundle" attribute is specified, and to Struts' MessageResources if that's not found. The regular tag defaults to Struts' MessageResources if no bundle is specified. All bad bundle attributes result in a log.error() rather than a JspException. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added dynamic menu example to sample application at http://demo.raibledesigns.com/struts-menu/dynamicMenu.jsp This demonstrates how to build a repository from a database table. Various enhancements had to be made to the MenuRepository.java class to make this easier. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added EL-enabled Tags for UseMenuDisplayerTag and DisplayMenuTag. Simply use the http://struts-menu.sf.net/tag-el in your taglib declaration to use this tag. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added target and onclick attribute support to TabbedMenuDisplayer. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added documentation for creating custom PermissionsAdapter and configuring VelocityDisplayer. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added net.sf.navigator.menu.MenuLoader so Struts Menu can be configured using Spring. Also added MenuContextListener so it can be configured as a ContextListener in web.xml. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Changed dynamic variable feature to use JSTL's ExpressionEvaluator. To substitute request parameters, you must use ${param.paramName}, rather than just ${paramName}. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Fixed UseMenuDisplayerTag to allow config in menu-config.xml to override the default (as documented). Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Fixed DisplayMenuTag to continue rendering menu items when Action or Forward lookups fail. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added support for highlighting the last menu selected in the Expandable Menu. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added support for standalone links/menus (no children) to Expandable Menu. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added struts-menu.tld to the binary distribution. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Renamed package structure to net.sf.navigator. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added support for using Struts' actions and forwards for links in menu-config.xml. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Added support for using dynamic variables in menu-config.xml. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Updated build process to use Maven for building/deploying. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |
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Refactored to use Velocity and allow dynamic variable substitution. Thanks to Matt Raible. | mraible |