* * * * * * 1.x (tag: swixml_14x) from 1.5 (tag: swixml_146) * * * * *
Added Swixml XML-Schema Generator

Fixed BorderConverter to accept a more complex declaration of a
TitledBorder, which can now be declared like so:
border="TitledBorder(TitledBorder, myTitle, TitledBorder.CENTER,
TitledBorder.BELOW_BOTTOM, VERDANA-BOLD-18, blue)"
Added TitledBorder's constants to the PrimitiveConverter

Fixed class return type in the Font Converter.
Supported plaf attributes on Macs.
Cleaned up ConverterLibrary.
Removed <i>final</a> from SwingEngine's static DEBUG member

Added CustomTag sample which uses the JCalendar, Qaqua, and Substance
3rd party jars, all added to the lib folder.

Wrapping client methods into AbstactActions:
If a client's method should be used as an Action but the client is not
intersted in the ActionEvent that caused it, there may not a reason to
imlement an Action but rather use a simple operation like:
public void myOperation() { .. }
If a client's method name is found in the action attribute's value and
an Action with this name doesn't exist, then the method is wrapped
into an AbstactAction and mapped.
 
Wrap the JScrollPane to override the setBackground method. Setting the
background of a scrollpane can be accomplished by setting the
background color of the viewport, via
scrollPane.getViewport().setBackground().

Localizer class is now localizing comma sep. string lists, which now
for instance allows the TabbedPane's titles attribute to be used
together with localization.

* * * * * * 1.5 (tag: swixml_146) from 1.5 (tag: swixml_145) * * * * *
Switched VCS from CVS to SVN
Replaced 3rd party libs with newer version: ui.jar, ant.jar, junit.jar
 
* * * * * * 1.5 (tag: swixml_145) from 1.4 (tag: swixml_144) * * * * *
Fixed AccessControlException thrown when run in applet or otherwise
restricted environment.

* * * * * * 1.4 (tag: swixml_141) from 1.3 (tag: swixml_144) * * * * *
Parser now adds a JMenuBar into its parent-container,
in case the parent doesn't provide a setJMenuBar(..) method.
Automatic field mapping now works with private field too.
Transient fields however, are not mapped.
ButtonGroups with an id attribute are now mapped like Components.
Added lib/junit.jar into build.
Replaced lib/jdom.jar with Jason Hunter's 1.0 release.

* * * * * * 1.3 (tag: swixml_139) from 1.2 (tag: swixml_141) * * * * *
Actions instantiated through initclass are now working on MacOS.

The actionPerformed of all MacOS-actions does not get a null reference
as ActionEvent anymore. Instead the original (ApplicationEvent)-source
is used. Further, the ActionEvent gets a (somewhat) useful
actionCommand String specifying the called function, e.g. for the
Action mapped to MacOS-File-Open-Command the actionCommand
Parser.ATTR_MACOS_OPENFILE.

Thanks to Volker Bublitz for help and testing environment.

* * * * * * 1.2 (tag: swixml_138) from 1.1 (tag: swixml_139) * * * * *
Changed Mac OS X detection like recommended in Apple's Technical Note TN2110

To avoid the problem with BufferedReader switching to the default
Platform-Encoding,
BufferedReaders are not used anymore when reading XML descriptors.
i.e. DataInputStreams are implicitly localized when wrapped into an appropriate
BufferedReader.

Deprecated SwingEngine Ctor: SwingEngine(ClassLoader cl, final String resource),
which is not useful but confusing, i.e. a ResourceBundle can only be set after
the XML descriptor has been rendered, when changing the CL however, one often
wants to provide a new rb as well.

Fixed the Localizer class' setResourceBundle() method to work also in a remoting
environment.

* * * * * * 1.1 (tag: swixml_138) from 1.0.1 (tag: swixml_137) * * * * *
Added example HelloMac, showing some of the Mac OS X specifics
Updated TagDocumentation/Custom Swixml Attributes with MAC_OS examples
Updated TagDocumentation to link to Java 2 Platform Std Ed. v1.4.2
Updated lib/jdom.jar library to BETA-10 RC1.
Updated lib/ant.jar to ant 1.6.1
Updated lib/ui.jar to apple jre 1.4.2
Updated build.xml file to work on the MAC
Updated license file.

Added guessSetter method to Factory Interface and implementations.
Added guessSetter method to TagLibrary class.
The new methods are used during parsing to determine which method to used to
set a property and case now doesn't matter anymore for attribute names.
I.e. a JLabels' MaximumSize property could be set with a label tag like this:
<label MaximumSize="123"/>. However, <label Maximumsize="123"/> didn't work before.

BUG FIXES
---------
Fixed logical error in method SwingEngine.setActionListener, which prevented 
ActionListeners being assigned to MenuItems.

* * * * * * 1.0.1 (tag: swixml_136) from 1.0 (tag: swixml_135) * * * * *
Added ClassLoader property to the SwingEngine to allow remoting.
The classloader can be set through manually or through a constructor or if not set,
the SwingEngines ClassLoader is used instead. In any case, the classloader is
passed to the Localizer and used by the Parser and the IconImageConverter.

Implemented a RectangleConverter and added to ConverterLib.,
This has a nice side effect; it enables methods like setBounds(), i.e. for
JInternalFrames. Therefore, a Bounds attribute is now supported for the internalframe tag.

Added more sample code to smaples package, i.e. Layout sample showing some of the
currently supported layoutmanagers in an InteralFrame.

Added SWIXML LOGO PERMISSION AGREEMENT to LICENSE.txt

BUG FIXES
---------
Parser now adds MenuBars into its parent container, even if that doesn't provide a
setJMenuBar method.


* * * * * * 1.0 (tag: swixml_135) from RC2 (tag: swixml_132) * * * * * *
BUG FIXES
---------
Added Exceptionhandlers to prevent exceptions to show in restricted environments
like Applets.
Added JFrame.class to the primitive converters list of constant providers,
provided  constants to be used with the DefaultCloseOperation attribute.

* * * * * * RC2 (tag: swixml_131) from Beta6 (tag: swixml_128) * * * * * *
New
---
Added HBox, VBox, and Glue tags (removed Box tag).
Added PointConverter.
Added MacOSX support look for new propritary attributes for info.
Added Localization sample to demo localization and the new OSX features.

* * * * * * Beta6 (tag: swixml_128) from Beta5 (tag: swixml_110) * * * * * *
NEW
---
Added XGridBackContraints, providing bean-style getters and setters for all
  public none static fields in GridBackContraints class
Added Escape key handling for Dialogs
Added constants that are defined in the JTabbedPane class into the PrimiveConverter
Added additional render method to the SwingEngine class:
  render public Container render( final File xml_file ) throws Exception
Added a couple samples
CHANGES:
The SwingEngine's setActionListener(..) method now uses a backtracking algorithm,
which registers the actionlistener rather on a child object.
Deprecated swixml attribute use and replaced it with refid
BUG FIXES
---------
Parser.getSwing() iterated passed last element in an attribute list under some
error conditions.

* * * * * * Beta5 (tag: swixml_110) from Beta4 (tag: swixml_105) * * * * * *
NEW
---
Added support for the CardLayout LayoutManager:
Example:
<panel id="pnl" Layout="CardLayout(10,10" Border="EtchedBorder">
  <panel Border="TitledBorder(Card 1)" constraints="c1" Background="red">
    ..
  </panel>
  <panel Border="TitledBorder(Card 2)" constraints="c2" Background="blue">
    ..
  </panel>
</panel>
See is a complete sample (java and xml) in the distribution's sample package.


Added WindowConstants.class as a constant provider for the PrimitiveConverter.
Example:
  <dialog
    title="title"
    size="542,441"
    DefaultCloseOperation="WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE">

CHANGES
-------
Remove the implicit setting of the System Look-and-Feel. The SwingEngine does
not tamper with the LookAndFeel anymore, if not requested through an attribute in an
XML descriptor.


Improved error messages displayed during parsing.
  Error messages and exception messages are only outputted
  if SwingEngine.DEBUG_MODE equals true

BUG FIXES
---------
parser is not set to NULL anymore in the SwingEngine after browsing.
This should enable the parser for re-use - if needed.

* * * * * * Beta4 (tag: swixml_105) from Beta3 (tag: swixml_97) * * * * * *
Added support for JComponent ClientProperties.
Not applied attributes found in Swixml tags are now put into the instanced
JComponent's ClientProperties map and can be retrieved using the JComponent's
getClientProperty() method. (see sample code for details).
A message is displayed in System.out, every time a ClientProperty is put.
(but only if SwingEngine.DEBUG_MODE is true).

Added the a forget(String) method to the SwingEngine,
See Kate Rhodes, Forum(May) for details.

Added localizable accelerator for menuitems.
See Eric Lafargue Forum(May) for details.

NEW TAGs
-------
Added "Box" tag, which instances a javax.swing.Box.class.
This may be useful when working with a BoxLayout.

CHANGES
-------
Improved placement / initial location of child-dialogs.
(XDialog now overwrites show())

For consistency, some method signatures and constant names have been modified
in the SwingEngine class.

BUG FIXES
---------
Dialog cannot overwrite the Application Frame Icon anymore.
The dialog tag's icon attribute is only applied if an enclosing frame doesn't
exist or doesn't have an icon.


*
* * * * * * Beta3 (tag: swixml_97) from Beta2 (tag: swixml_95) * * * * * *
*

Added JScrollPane.class to the PrimitiveConverter's constant dictionaries,
allowing the use of constants like: JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS
is Swiml attributes.

Added custom attribute "include", which works in compliance with W3C XLink
and XPointer specs.:
Example:
	<mytag include="tags.xml#xyz/>

The content of the tag with the id="xyz" in the external document "tags.xml"
gets added at run-time to mytag's content.

Added ant build file build.xml
Added ./lib/ant.jar to the distribution

Swixml is built and distributed with the updated jdom-b9 (jdom_1_0_b9)

BUG FIXES
---------
Fixed action attribute problems. The order in which attributes
are listed is now irrelevant. SWIXML now automatically resolves action
attributes before applying and other attribute for a tag.

*
* * * * * * Beta2 (tag: swixml_95) from Beta1 (tag: swixml_92) * * * * * *
*

NEW TAGs
-------
Added "Component" tag, which instances a JComponent.class.
This may only be useful when used in combination with the initclass attribute.

Added "TextPane" tag, which instances a JTextPane.class.

CHANGES
-------
PLAF, the pluggable look and feel is now set once, in the SwingEngine's static
initializer:
UIManager.setLookAndFeel( UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName() );
The PLAF can also be changed for every rendering through the XML descriptor,
deploying the plaf attribute. The change to an application specific PLAF can be
accomplished by setting it after swixml is loaded, (the static initializer ran).

Added a "Throwable cause" to some exceptions thrown in the Parser.

Swixml is built and distributed with the Jason Hunter's new jdom-b9-RC1 release

Since JRE 1.4.x comes with the crimson SAX XML Parser included, the crimson.jar
was removed from the swixml distribution.


BUG FIXES
---------
Fixed ButtonGroups for radiobuttonmenuitem tags in menus.
Fixed localization for attributes that resolve into primitives.


