Whats New in Struts2 jQuery Plugin 2.4.0

Version 2.4.0 of Struts2 jQuery Plugin is now available with a lot of new features and improvements.

Now there exists a new Chart Module which is based on the popular jquery flot project. The new chart tag renders a chart with data given from a list or an ajax source. Checkout the new examples in the Showcase (More Widgets).

<h3>Chart with AJAX Data</h3>


	<s:url id="chartDataUrl" action="json-chart-data">
    <sjc:chart id="chartAjax" legendlabelboxbordercolor="#990033" legendposition="ne" legendshow="#ccc" cssstyle="width: 600px; height: 400px;">
    	<sjc:chartdata label="Map -Double, Double-" href="%{chartDataUrl}" list="doubleMap" deferredloading="true" reloadtopics="reloadMap">
    	<sjc:chartdata label="List -ListValue-" href="%{chartDataUrl}" list="objList" listkey="myKey" listvalue="myValue" reloadtopics="reloadList">
    </sjc:chartdata></sjc:chartdata></sjc:chart>
    <sj:a onclicktopics="reloadMap" button="true" buttonicon="ui-icon-refresh">Load/Reload Map</sj:a>
    <sj:a onclicktopics="reloadList" button="true" buttonicon="ui-icon-refresh">Reload List</sj:a>
</s:url>

Another new feature is the spinner tag which renders you a simple but usefully spinner for your forms.

<h3>A simple Spinner</h3>
<sj:spinner name="spinner1" id="spinner1"/>
<br/>
<br/>

<h3>A spinner with max=50 and step=2 setting</h3>
<sj:spinner
		name="spinner2"
		id="spinner2"
		min="5"
		max="50"
		step="2"
		value="25"/>
<br/>
<br/>

<h3>A spinner with currency format and mouse wheel support</h3>

<sj:spinner
		name="spinner3"
		id="spinner3"
		min="0.00"
		max="5.00"
		step="0.15"
		value="2.50"
        numberFormat="C"
		mouseWheel="true"/>

With this version it is also possible to generate your action messages in jQuery UI style, dependent on your theme.

	<h3>Action Error</h3>
	<s:actionerror theme="jquery"/>
	<br/>

	<h3>Action Message</h3>
	<s:actionmessage theme="jquery"/>
	<br/>

	<h3>Field Errors</h3>
	<s:fielderror theme="jquery"/>
	<br/>

jQuery UI is now based on the last stable version 1.8.4 with a lot of bug fixes. When using an own theme, it is recommended to create or update the theme with the themeroller. Also, the ckeditor is updated to new version 3.4 with some new plugins and some bugfixes.

For a complete list of changes since last version, please visit the Changelog.

Download: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/staging/com/jgeppert/struts2/jquery/
Showcase: https://struts.jgeppert.com/struts2-jquery-showcase/
Issues: https://github.com/struts-community-plugins/struts2-jquery/issues
User Group: https://groups.google.com/group/struts2-jquery