I've released version 0.8 of FunctionalJ. This version is, hopefully, an improvement to the API as well as the welcome addition of a JDK-1.5 version that uses generic types and other nice 1.5 features.

I wanted to thank Geert for JHighlight, which I used for syntax colouring of the code examples in the documentation. Cool stuff!

There is a news item on TheServerSide.

Cheers,
Frederic

The upcoming 1.5 release of RIFE (http://rifers.org) includes several excellent features, including stateful embedded elements.

In this brief tutorial I give an example of implementing a simple sortable HTML table using a stateful embedded element.

Once this is implemented, dropping in some sortable HTML tables in a page, each keeping their previous sort order after each request, is as simple as feeding the data to the table and placing a tag at the location where you want to display the table.

The tutorial is available at http://rifers.org/wiki/display/RIFE/TableElementExample

Frederic Daoud