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Posted to dev@struts.apache.org by Joe Germuska <Jo...@Germuska.com> on 2002/08/05 17:21:16 UTC
[NEWSLETTER] July 2002 (draft v2)
Replaced news headlines with what's in CVS, assuming that it'll be on
the site soon enough.
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* Struts 1.1b2: Twelve Bugs Away
Most of the activity on Struts-Dev in July was dedicated to swatting
bugs en route to a 1.1b2 release. Although that release is no
scheduled, as of 2002-08-03, there are only 12 outstanding bugs.[1]
[1] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-struts/STATUS
* Struts meets JSTL-EL
David M Karr stepped up to spearhead an effort to extend the Struts
JSP tag libraries to support the JSTL Expression Language. [2]
Discussion and work continue actively. Late in the month a
discussion thread [3] helped to summarize the current state of
development. At this time, the work is aimed at integrating with the
JSTL, which will therefore require Servlet 2.3/JSP 1.2 to use the
JSTL Expression Language. Along the way, Struts tags which perform
essentially equivalent tasks to JSTL tags are expected to be left
behind.
[2] http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
dev@jakarta.apache.org&msgNo=9378
[3]
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listId=41&by=thread&from=207178
* Commons File Upload component integrated
Martin Cooper introduced an implementation of the
MultipartRequestHandler interface which adapts the commons-upload
component for use in a Struts application.[4] As of the 20020728
nightly build, this is the default implementation of the interface.
[4] http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
dev@jakarta.apache.org&msgNo=9648
* Extending Struts XML Configuration
Early in the month, Brian Topping suggested exposing the Commons
Digester configuration so that developers could use the "struts-
config.xml" for arbitrary application configuration [5] Craig
McClanahan pointed out that Struts depends on a validated schema
because certain default values are specified in the struts-config
DTD[6] At the time, Craig suggested that that opening up
struts-config would wait until after a 1.1 is released, when an XML
Schema might be developed. However, later in the month, Craig made a
series of changes to the central "ActionServlet" controller. By
moving the default values into the configuration beans, he eliminated
the dependency on a validating parse of struts-config.xml. Around
the same time, a "rulesets" servlet initialization parameter was
added, allowing users to specify a list of classes implementing the
Digester RuleSet interface. Thus, after these changes, application
developers have the ability to use the basic struts initialization
process to do just about any application configuration they require.
[5] http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
dev@jakarta.apache.org&msgNo=9325
[6] http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
dev@jakarta.apache.org&msgNo=9333
Other Struts News: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/news.html
30 July 2002 - Struts Console version 2.0.1
25 July 2002 - Easy Struts v0.4.2 for Eclipse / JBuilder
24 July 2002 - ObjectAssembler 2.0
24 July 2002 - JavaPro Struts Tutorial
18 July 2002 - JavaBoutique Struts Tutorials
17 July 2002 - StrutsTestCase v1.8 Released
11 July 2002 - Scioworks Camino v2.0
11 July 2002 - Easy Struts v0.4 for Eclipse / JBuilder
10 July 2002 - Using Struts in Oracle JDeveloper 9i Tutorial
9 July 2002 - Struts Console version 2.0
09 July 2002 - Struts Adoption article
08 July 2002 - Struts article in e-Promagazine
08 July 2002 - JAAS article highlighting Authorization and
Authentication with Struts
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