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A new version of the xWire Framework client (V1.09) has been released. It has been several months and we've been busy adding lots of great features. The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

The xWire Framework is a programmer's toolkit that can be used for either or both the client and server components of an application. The client consists of a Javascript library that allows you to write advanced AJAX style clients that run on either Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera 9. The server can be used to build Java-based web applications. ... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework server (V1.08) has been released. The xWire Framework server is an ideal framework for writing the scalable Java web applications and has many features useful for writing the server component of an AJAX-style application.

This is the final release of the V1.x server. Significant changes are in store for the framework. The next released version of the framework will be V2.0 and will represent a migration from Struts to the Spring Framework.... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework server (V1.07) has been released. The xWire Framework server is an ideal framework for writing the scalable Java web applications and has many features useful for writing the server component of an AJAX-style application.

This release contains several bug fixes including and enhancements, including:
* Added COMET support [beta]
* Added a browser-like, server-based XmlHttp component for communicating with other servers
* Added a Passphrase Encrypter so that you can encrypt and decrypt (i.e. putting passwords in .properties files)... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework client (V1.08) has been released. It has been several months and we've been busy adding lots of great features (see below). The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

New features include:
* COMET support!!! [beta]
* Added support for the new browser versions including Firefox 2.0, IE 7.0 and Opera 9.0
* Lots of enhancements to the TreeTable component
* Enhancements to the Logger... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework server (V1.06) has been released. The xWire Framework server is an ideal framework for writing the scalable Java web applications and has many features useful for writing the server component of an AJAX-style application.

This release contains several bug fixes including and enhancements, including:
* Added extendedDynamic, package, packageLibrary and qaqqinilib properties to ISeriesDatabaseConnectionFactory.
* Enhanced the EmailService to allow you to also specify the sender instead of only using a sender from a .properties file.
* Added Content-Disposition HTTP Header to PDFResponseHeaderGenerator to address Internet Explorer issues
* Enhanced the EmailService to allow you to pass a Properties containing the mail headers to be set
* Enhanced the EmailService to allow you to specify a list of Reply-To addresses
* Changed InvokingAction to send a default XML response when the delegate's response is null or has a void return type
* Updated Microsoft SQL server support to work with newest MS JDBC driver for SQL Server 2005... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework client (V1.07) has been released. The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

New features include:
* Enhanced the ConsoleLogAppender to render a button into the log window that can be used to clear the log
* Added support to DateFormat to parse and render millisecond values in timestamps. Previously, the DateFormat only supported precision down to the second.
* Changed the vetoable event mechanism to use false as a veto instead of true
* Added a new argument to the #aboutToSwitchPages to include the page being switched from
* Fixed a minor bug in the NumberFormat class when attempting to format an integer and add decimal places
* Implemented support for Microsoft Explorer 7.x
* Added support for newer versions of MSXML, including V5.0 and V6.0 (insures that latest version of objects are used in your applications)... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework client (V1.06) has been released. The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

New features include:
* Enhancement to the Tree widget to allow individual nodes to provide their own images instead of the default
* Completely revamped event model (V2.0)!!
* Enhancement to the XMLFormBinder to allow multiple binding specs for each HTML form
* Enhancement to the XMLFormBinder to remove trailing spaces to/from HTML form values
* Significant performance improvement when rendering Trees ... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework server (V1.05) has been released. The xWire Framework server is an ideal framework for writing the scalable Java web applications and has many features useful for writing the server component of an AJAX-style application.

This release contains several bug fixes including and enhancements, including:
* Fixed bug in iBatis TransactionManager to prevent deadlock
* Added nullable XStream converters to be used when using XStream in your applications
* Enhancement to JdbcInputStream to substitute valid characters when column names contain invalid XML element name characters (i.e. $)
* Implementation of a new RequestEntityBuilder to handle scenario when an HTML form is posted and converted into a Java object using XStream... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework client (V1.05) has been released. The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

New features include:
* Bug fixes to DateFormat and NumberFormat Javascript classes
* Addition of XMLRequestQueue to submit and manage multiple asynchronous XMLHttp requests
* Enhancement to getXMLViaHttp/sendViaHttp functions to include the xmlHttp component on the callbacks so that requestors can have access to it
* Added cross-browser support for interacting with HTML IFrame element content
* Enhancement to XMLFormBinder to make the component more resilient when the developer has incorrectly referenced either an HTML form element or XML element ... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework client (V1.04) has been released. The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

New features include:
* Bug fix to TreeTable when HTML table is reused
* Enhancement to scrollable tables to better handle window resizing
* try/catch surrounds logging to prevent logging errors from stopping application
* Enhancement to return focus to application browser window when logger opens a new window... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework server (V1.04) has been released. The xWire Framework server is an ideal framework for writing the scalable Java web applications and has many features useful for writing the server component of an AJAX-style application.

This release contains several bug fixes including one to the ConfigurationService and an enhancement to the iBatis Integration layer to allow your datasources to be automatically registered.... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework server (V1.03) has been released. The xWire Framework server is an ideal framework for writing the scalable Java web applications and has many features useful for writing the server component of an AJAX-style application.

This release contains several enhancements including many to the Javascript Bundler. You can now control formatting removal and preprocessing at a bundle level. Also, there are some enhancements in support of doing browser verification to ensure that your users are accessing your site with a compliant browser. Finally, the new version of XStream was integrated and now the XStream serialization of XML to your client browsers are faster and more efficient.... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework server (V1.02) has been released. The xWire Framework server is an ideal framework for writing the scalable Java web applications and has many features useful for writing the server component of an AJAX-style application.

This release contains several bug fixes (see changeLog.txt) for details

More new features are coming soon!

The xWire Framework is a programmer's toolkit that can be used for either or both the client and server components of an application. The client consists of a Javascript library that allows you to write advanced AJAX style clients that run on either Internet Explorer or Firefox. The server can be used to build Java-based web applications. ... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework client (V1.03) has been released. The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

New features include:
* Scrollable HTML tables with a fixed header and scrollable data and works in both IE and Firefox
* Included a Scrollable Table example
* A couple of enhancements to the TreeTable component (see changeLog.txt) ... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework client (V1.01) has been released. The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

New features include:
* Log4J-style LogAppender added to client side Logger
* Ability to pass an XSLT document to the transform function instead of just a URL
* A couple of bug fixes (see changeLog.txt)

More new features are coming soon! ... read more

The initial release of the xWire Framework demo application (V1.00) has been released. The demo illustrates several common uses of the xWire Framework and has been tested under Tomcat and MySQL..

The xWire Framework is a programmer's toolkit that can be used for either or both the client and server components of an application. The client consists of a Javascript library that allows you to write advanced AJAX style clients that run on either Internet Explorer or Firefox. The server can be used to build Java-based web applications. ... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework server (V1.01) has been released. The xWire Framework server is an ideal framework for writing the server side of an AJAX style application. However, you can use it for just about any Java application you wish.

The xWire Framework is a programmer's toolkit that can be used for either or both the client and server components of an application. The client consists of a Javascript library that allows you to write advanced AJAX style clients that run on either Internet Explorer or Firefox. The server can be used to build Java-based web applications. ... read more

A new version of the xWire Framework client (V1.01) has been released. The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

The xWire Framework is a programmer's toolkit that can be used for either or both the client and server components of an application. The client consists of a Javascript library that allows you to write advanced AJAX style clients that run on either Internet Explorer or Firefox. The server can be used to build Java-based web applications. ... read more

The initial release of the xWire Framework server (V1.00) has been released. The xWire Framework server is an ideal framework for writing the server side of an AJAX style application. However, you can use it for just about any Java application you wish.

The xWire Framework is a programmer's toolkit that can be used for either or both the client and server components of an application. The client consists of a Javascript library that allows you to write advanced AJAX style clients that run on either Internet Explorer or Firefox. The server can be used to build Java-based web applications.... read more

The initial release of the xWire Framework client (V1.00) has been released. The xWire Framework client is an ideal framework for writing the client side of an AJAX style application.

The xWire Framework is a programmer's toolkit that can be used for either or both the client and server components of an application. The client consists of a Javascript library that allows you to write advanced AJAX style clients that run on either Internet Explorer or Firefox. The server can be used to build Java-based web applications.... read more