# Status of Jasper

The goal of this document is to keep everyone informed of the major developments happening with Jasper.
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## Current Status

Trying to bootstrap the work required to bring Jasper in compliance with the new JSP 1.2 spec (according to the guidelines proposed by Craig in a previous posting).

Interested developers, please have a look at the TODO document, provide feedback.... and volunteer!.

## History

- 2000/10/17
  First commit of changes to support the following JSP1.2 addition to the API:
  New IterationTag interface to support iteration without BodyContent
  Summary of Changes.

- 2000/10/10
  First commit of changes to support the following JSP1.2 addition to the API:
  jsp:include can now indicate flush="false"
  Summary of Changes.

- 2000/09/26
  First commit of changes to support the following JSP1.2 addition to the API:
  PropertyEditor.setAsText() can now be used to convert from a literal string attribute value.
  Summary of Changes.

- 2000/09/18
  First commit of changes to support the following JSP1.2 additions to the API:
  - Made the XML view of a JSP page available for input, and for validation
  - New ValidatorClass and JspPage classes for validation against tag libraries.
  There is still more work to do, as well as many fixes to come, but at least the basis is now there for anyone interested in trying it out as well as collaborating to the code. Summary of Changes.

- 2000/08/30
  In an effort to bootstrap the work required to bring Jasper in compliance with the new JSP 1.2 spec (according to the guidelines proposed by Craig in a previous posting), new developer documentation was committed to the workspace to help us all be in sync with the current efforts, and what needs to be done. Check the README.

- 2000/08/25
  One of the goals of the new architecture of Jasper is to be independent of the servlet engine. This is why jasper now stands in its own directory in tomcat-4.0. It currently works with Catalina, with only a few dependencies, which we will work on removing. Please check the document Jasper as an Independent Component for the story.