Changes in versions released for IDEA 7

IDEA 8

Diana 89xx (08-10-xx)

General

• Library setup: use latest GA release 2.0.12

struts.xml

• Quick Documentation Lookup (CTRL+J) for <action>
• <result>: do not highlight URLs with protocol (e.g. "http://www.jetbrains.com")
• adapt changes in DTD from 2.0.12

JSP

• Support for "bang"-notation (actionName!actionMethod) for "action"-attributes in S2 tags

Diana 8858 (08-10-02)

struts.xml

• pageflow-graph: various assorted bugfixes and improvements

Diana 8769 (08-09-04)

Freemarker

• Freemarker plugin now provides Struts 2 actions as implicit top-level variables (http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEADEV-29449)

JSP

• fix issues w/r to JavaScript inline support (Struts UI tags) when used with scriptlets

Diana 8733 (08-08-22)

struts.xml

• add visual pageflow-graph
• fix error highlighting for <result>s with nested <param> tags

Detailed release notes

Diana 8582 (08-07-17)

General

• Validation of struts.xml/validation.xml on make: default to OFF

Detailed release notes

Diana 8418 (08-05-28)

General

• Internal refactorings

struts.xml

• <include> does not support paths to config files located in other directories

Detailed release notes

Diana 8375 (08-05-16)

General

• "Add Framework" support for "New Project"
• setup Struts 2 libraries to deploy automatically on build
• various bugfixes

struts.xml

• <result>: support direct links to full action paths (/myPackage/myAction.action)
• <result>: allow to suppress highlighting for unresolved paths
• Type-dependent autocompletion/validation for <constant> "value"

JSP

• integrate links to full action paths everywhere (HTML tags, JSTL, ..)

Detailed release notes

Diana 8280 (08-04-10)

General

• various bugfixes

struts.xml

• Support references to Spring beans for <action> "class"

JSP

• more autocompletion for various Struts tags

Detailed release notes

IDEA 7

0.41 (08-06-22)

IDEA 7.0.3/7.0.4, Build #7757-7999

struts.xml

• Type-dependent autocompletion/validation for <constant> "value"
• <include> does not support paths to config files located in other directories

Detailed release notes

0.40 (08-05-11)

IDEA 7.0.3/7.0.4, Build #7757-7999

General

• various bugfixes
• Validate on make: check only validation.xml files located in modules w/ S2-facet

struts.xml

• Fix Spring integration for IDEA 7.0.4
• allow to suppress unresolved references in <result>

Detailed release notes

0.39 (08-04-06)

IDEA 7.0.3, Build #7757-7999

General

• various bugfixes

struts.xml

• Support references to Spring beans for <action> "class"

JSP

• more autocompletion for various Struts tags

Detailed release notes

0.38 (08-02-18)

IDEA 7.0.2 & 7.0.3 EAP, Build #7590-7999

General

• various bugfixes

struts.xml

• support Action-paths with wildcards

Detailed release notes

0.37 (08-01-27)

IDEA 7.0.2 & 7.0.3 EAP, Build #7590-7999

Bugfixes only, please see Detailed release notes

0.36 (08-01-12)

IDEA 7.0.2 & 7.0.3 EAP, Build #7590-7999

Detailed release notes

General

• various smaller bugfixes
• major additions to JUnit testcases

struts.xml

• <result>: support autocompletion/navigation for type="chain" (STRPL-37)
• extend support to WW2 configuration files (STRPL-9)

IDE

• struts.xml structure view cosmetics (STRPL-21)

0.35 (07-12-30)

IDEA 7.0.2 & 7.0.3 EAP, Build #7562-7999

Detailed release notes

General

• various smaller bugfixes

struts.xml

• <result>: support autocompletion/navigation for JSP/static files (STRPL-18) and Action-paths (STRPL-33)

0.31 (07-12-11)

IDEA 7.0.2 EAP & official 7.0.2 release, Build #7562-7999

General

• various bugfixes

struts.xml

• <result> with no name defaults to "success"
• support for <exception-mapping>

JSP

• fix action/namespace-resolving with default namespace ("/")

Internal

• more & faster highlighting tests

0.3 (07-12-03)

IDEA 7.0.2 EAP, Build #7562-7999

General

• cosmetics

Facet

• allow to attach Struts 2 facet to module directly (no parent web facet required)
• fix disabled validation.xml checkbox in tab "Validation"

JSP

• UI tags: autocompletion/navigation for "action", "namespace" - BETA quality
• UI tags: gutter icon navigation to Action-method
• UI tags: support for inline CSS ("cssStyle") and CSS classes ("cssClass")

Internal

• Test framework

0.2 (07-11-24)

IDEA 7.0.2 EAP, Build #7562-7999

General

• performance improvements
• some cosmetics

Facet

• auto-detection of struts.xml files and creation of new facet

struts.xml

• fix support for <default-class-ref>
• improve resolving support for many tags
• dedicated structure view including speed-search (Alt+F3)
• quickfix for adding struts.xml file not mapped to file sets to existing one

validation.xml

• dedicated structure view including speed-search (Alt+F3)

validators.xml

• validate custom validators.xml on "Make Project"

JSP

• UI tags: JavaScript support for common attributes ("onXXX")
• UI tags: autocompletion for many static valued attributes (e.g. "labelposition", "required", ..)

0.1 (07-11-13)

IDEA Build #7549

Known limitations are marked with

Facet

• Setup of file sets
• Library validator/downloader
• "Validate on Make Project" options

struts.xml

• Basic support for completion/navigation/rename/find usages
• no support for <result> locations

• show warning when struts.xml is not mapped in file sets
• <param> "name" does not resolve for very few elements

validation.xml

• Basic support for completion/navigation/rename/find usages
• no support for <field> "name"

JAVA

• Go to <action> declaration from Action-class

IDE

• Icons for configuration files/Action-classes
• "Go To Action/Package" (CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N)
• Automatic setup of all required DTDs