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Upgrading a Struts 1.1 app to 1.2.1: any 'gotchas' to watch for?
Hi everyone,
After a cursory check of the Wiki & Struts site, I have a question for the
collective expertise in the group.
I'd like to leverage all the new features & fixes available in the 1.2.1
release by upgrading my existing app. Here's what we're running now:
Struts/Tiles 1.1
sslext for Struts 1.10 - 4
IBM WebSphere 5.1
JSTL 1.0 (Thanks, IBM ;-)
Has anyone experienced any issues doing such an upgrade?
Thanks in advance for sharing any tribal knowledge,
--Curtis
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Re: Upgrading a Struts 1.1 app to 1.2.1: any 'gotchas' to watch for?
Posted by Nathan Maves <Na...@Sun.COM>.
Everything worked great!
Make sure that you use the new jars supplied in the download.
sslext still works fine for me.
You will also have to make sure that you are using ActionMessages.
Nathan
On Jul 28, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Curtis Taylor wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> After a cursory check of the Wiki & Struts site, I have a question for
> the
> collective expertise in the group.
>
> I'd like to leverage all the new features & fixes available in the
> 1.2.1
> release by upgrading my existing app. Here's what we're running now:
>
> Struts/Tiles 1.1
> sslext for Struts 1.10 - 4
> IBM WebSphere 5.1
> JSTL 1.0 (Thanks, IBM ;-)
>
> Has anyone experienced any issues doing such an upgrade?
>
> Thanks in advance for sharing any tribal knowledge,
>
> --Curtis
>
>
>
>
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Re: Upgrading a Struts 1.1 app to 1.2.1: any 'gotchas' to watch for?
Posted by Paul Spencer <pa...@apache.org>.
Niall,
I have posted your comments on the Struts Wiki. Hopefully this page
will be updated as new "gotchas" are found.
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/Struts1_2e1to1_2e2_2e1UpgradeNotes
I have also found them very helpful.
Paul Spencer
Niall Pemberton wrote:
> * jars - I guess its obvious to say you need to replace the jars, but the
> one people might forget is the new commons-validator.jar for version 1.1.3
> of validator. I'm not sure where you can download this from currently,
> except the Struts 1.2.1 distro includes it.
>
> * tlds - remember to deploy the new versions of the tld files for struts
> tags. If you don't you won't be able to use the new tag attributes added.
>
> * validator.xml - change the dtd declaration at the top to refer to the dtd
> for validator 1.1.3
>
> <!DOCTYPE form-validation PUBLIC
> "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Commons Validator Rules
> Configuration 1.1.3//EN"
> "http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1_3.dtd">
>
> * validator-rules.xml - upgrade to the new version of validator-rules.xml.
> In the Struts 1.2.1 version the dtd declaration in validator-rules.xml is
> incorrect - its right in the latest nightly build - either use that or just
> change the dtd declaration as shown above in the 1.2.1 version of
> validator-rules.xml.
>
> * struts-config.xml - its not absolutely necessary but you should upgrade to
> the 1.2 version of the dtd (Note that as well as the version number changing
> so has the url to struts.apache.org).
>
> <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
> "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.2//EN"
> "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_2.dtd">
>
> If you do upgrade to the 1.2 version dtd then there are a couple of
> attributes which have been removed and you will need to remove them from
> your struts-config:
> - debug has been removed from the "controller" element.
> - dynamic has been removed from the "form-bean" element
>
> Also "contextRelative" in the "forward" element is now considered
> "deprecated" and a new "module" attribute added.
>
> The only other thing I did was change references to ActionError to
> ActionMessage - its wasn't necessary to do it, but it got rid of the
> "deprecation" warnings when I compile.
>
> Niall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curtis Taylor" <cu...@yahoo.com>
> To: <us...@struts.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:28 PM
> Subject: Upgrading a Struts 1.1 app to 1.2.1: any 'gotchas' to watch for?
>
>
>
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>After a cursory check of the Wiki & Struts site, I have a question for the
>>collective expertise in the group.
>>
>>I'd like to leverage all the new features & fixes available in the 1.2.1
>>release by upgrading my existing app. Here's what we're running now:
>>
>>Struts/Tiles 1.1
>>sslext for Struts 1.10 - 4
>>IBM WebSphere 5.1
>>JSTL 1.0 (Thanks, IBM ;-)
>>
>>Has anyone experienced any issues doing such an upgrade?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for sharing any tribal knowledge,
>>
>>--Curtis
>
>
>
>
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Re: Upgrading a Struts 1.1 app to 1.2.1: any 'gotchas' to watch for?
Posted by Curtis Taylor <cu...@yahoo.com>.
Thanks for the detail, Niall; I quite look forward to the upgrade (never
thought I'd hear myself say something like that ;-)
And thank you, Nathan for the positive response.
Curtis
"Niall Pemberton" <ni...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:02af01c476a9$a2e936c0$07ac2b52@DELL1800...
> * jars - I guess its obvious to say you need to replace the jars, but the
> one people might forget is the new commons-validator.jar for version 1.1.3
> of validator. I'm not sure where you can download this from currently,
> except the Struts 1.2.1 distro includes it.
>
> * tlds - remember to deploy the new versions of the tld files for struts
> tags. If you don't you won't be able to use the new tag attributes added.
>
> * validator.xml - change the dtd declaration at the top to refer to the
dtd
> for validator 1.1.3
>
> <!DOCTYPE form-validation PUBLIC
> "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Commons Validator Rules
> Configuration 1.1.3//EN"
> "http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1_3.dtd">
>
> * validator-rules.xml - upgrade to the new version of validator-rules.xml.
> In the Struts 1.2.1 version the dtd declaration in validator-rules.xml is
> incorrect - its right in the latest nightly build - either use that or
just
> change the dtd declaration as shown above in the 1.2.1 version of
> validator-rules.xml.
>
> * struts-config.xml - its not absolutely necessary but you should upgrade
to
> the 1.2 version of the dtd (Note that as well as the version number
changing
> so has the url to struts.apache.org).
>
> <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
> "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.2//EN"
> "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_2.dtd">
>
> If you do upgrade to the 1.2 version dtd then there are a couple of
> attributes which have been removed and you will need to remove them from
> your struts-config:
> - debug has been removed from the "controller" element.
> - dynamic has been removed from the "form-bean" element
>
> Also "contextRelative" in the "forward" element is now considered
> "deprecated" and a new "module" attribute added.
>
> The only other thing I did was change references to ActionError to
> ActionMessage - its wasn't necessary to do it, but it got rid of the
> "deprecation" warnings when I compile.
>
> Niall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curtis Taylor" <cu...@yahoo.com>
> To: <us...@struts.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:28 PM
> Subject: Upgrading a Struts 1.1 app to 1.2.1: any 'gotchas' to watch for?
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > After a cursory check of the Wiki & Struts site, I have a question for
the
> > collective expertise in the group.
> >
> > I'd like to leverage all the new features & fixes available in the 1.2.1
> > release by upgrading my existing app. Here's what we're running now:
> >
> > Struts/Tiles 1.1
> > sslext for Struts 1.10 - 4
> > IBM WebSphere 5.1
> > JSTL 1.0 (Thanks, IBM ;-)
> >
> > Has anyone experienced any issues doing such an upgrade?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for sharing any tribal knowledge,
> >
> > --Curtis
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Re: Upgrading a Struts 1.1 app to 1.2.1: any 'gotchas' to watch for?
Posted by Niall Pemberton <ni...@blueyonder.co.uk>.
* jars - I guess its obvious to say you need to replace the jars, but the
one people might forget is the new commons-validator.jar for version 1.1.3
of validator. I'm not sure where you can download this from currently,
except the Struts 1.2.1 distro includes it.
* tlds - remember to deploy the new versions of the tld files for struts
tags. If you don't you won't be able to use the new tag attributes added.
* validator.xml - change the dtd declaration at the top to refer to the dtd
for validator 1.1.3
<!DOCTYPE form-validation PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Commons Validator Rules
Configuration 1.1.3//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1_3.dtd">
* validator-rules.xml - upgrade to the new version of validator-rules.xml.
In the Struts 1.2.1 version the dtd declaration in validator-rules.xml is
incorrect - its right in the latest nightly build - either use that or just
change the dtd declaration as shown above in the 1.2.1 version of
validator-rules.xml.
* struts-config.xml - its not absolutely necessary but you should upgrade to
the 1.2 version of the dtd (Note that as well as the version number changing
so has the url to struts.apache.org).
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.2//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_2.dtd">
If you do upgrade to the 1.2 version dtd then there are a couple of
attributes which have been removed and you will need to remove them from
your struts-config:
- debug has been removed from the "controller" element.
- dynamic has been removed from the "form-bean" element
Also "contextRelative" in the "forward" element is now considered
"deprecated" and a new "module" attribute added.
The only other thing I did was change references to ActionError to
ActionMessage - its wasn't necessary to do it, but it got rid of the
"deprecation" warnings when I compile.
Niall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Taylor" <cu...@yahoo.com>
To: <us...@struts.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:28 PM
Subject: Upgrading a Struts 1.1 app to 1.2.1: any 'gotchas' to watch for?
> Hi everyone,
>
> After a cursory check of the Wiki & Struts site, I have a question for the
> collective expertise in the group.
>
> I'd like to leverage all the new features & fixes available in the 1.2.1
> release by upgrading my existing app. Here's what we're running now:
>
> Struts/Tiles 1.1
> sslext for Struts 1.10 - 4
> IBM WebSphere 5.1
> JSTL 1.0 (Thanks, IBM ;-)
>
> Has anyone experienced any issues doing such an upgrade?
>
> Thanks in advance for sharing any tribal knowledge,
>
> --Curtis
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