What's new?
This section highlights new features added and critical
changes made since the last release. Other interesting
changes are listed in the
What Changed?
section. Subscribers to the
struts-dev mailing list
, receive reports of all changes as they are made.
Deprecations
- Many constructs were deprecated for the Struts 1.1
release, most of which have now been removed. Before
moving to this release, you should clean-compile your
application with deprecation warnings enabled.
Alternatives should be available for all decprecated
constructs.
You are strongly advised
to resolve all Struts 1.1. deprecations before moving to
this release. Removed constructs most likely to affect
developers are:
org.apache.struts.Action
statics: Use
org.apache.struts.Global
statics instead.
Action.perform
: Use
Action.execute
instead.
Although not removed or deprecated, in many cases
you should replace
the
ActionErrors
with the preferred
ActionMessages
to ensure correct operation.
TagUtils and ModuleUtils
- Many utility methods previously found in
org.apache.struts.utils.RequestUtils
have been moved to
org.apache.struts.taglibs.TagUtils
or
org.apache.struts.utils.ModuleUtils
.
GenericDataSource / GenericConnection
implementations removed
- The datasources manager is still supported, but our own
datasource
implementation
is not. You are welcome to plug in your own DataSource
implementation, but we do not have the resources to
maintain one of our own. If your container does not supply
a DataSource implementation, the DBCP package from the
Jakarta Commons is suggested.
Validator enhancements
- ValidWhen - The Struts Validator now supports a
ValidWhen rule, so that one validation can be
dependant on another.
Details ...
- IntRange now checks select-one and radio fields.
Example: This allows populating combo boxes with valid
choices plus one additional choice with a caption
something like "Choose one" and a value 0f "-1". Then
when the user attempts to submit the form, you can
look for the value of "-1" and advise if nothing was
selected.
- You can now force the clientside Javascript validation
to check all constraints, instead of stopping at the
first error. By setting a new property,
stopOnFirstError
, on the Validator PlugIn to false.
Details
...
- The "required" validation can now handle checkboxes,
radio,select-one, and select-multiple field types. See
the updated Validator example application to see these
new features in action.
- A standard
validateUrl
rule lets you check if a property contains a
well-formed URL.
DigestingPlugIn
- A new standard PlugIn that helps you create your own
object graph in application scope. This is handy way to
create business objects for Actions to call. Check the
latest MailReader eaxmple application to see the
DigestingPlugin in action.
ModuleConfigVerifier
- While not exactly new, a standard class for verifying
module configurations is also available in the PlugIn
packages. As it stands, the
ModuleConfigVerifier
mainly confirms that various components of the Struts
object graph were loaded. However, ambitious developers
could extend this class with additional checks to ensure
the Struts configuration is internally consistent.
Maven project files
- While still under development, significant progress has
been made toward putting the Struts build process under
Maven
. The core JAR and TLDs can be built using Maven,
leveraging the shared Maven repository for our many
dependencies. You can find the current maven.xml and
project.xml in the root directory of the Struts source
distribution. However, at this time, the original Ant
build files are still the official mechanism for building
Struts.
New Configuration DTD
- The
struts-config_1_2.dtd
is preferred to the deprecated Struts Configuration 1.1
DTD. The new DTD adds two new elements <display-name>
and <description> to the struts-config element.
These elements are for use by struts config file tools and
document generation. In the Struts 1.2.x series, existing
Struts configuration files can be loaded using either DTD
version.
New Taglib URIs
- The URIs for the tag libraries have been changed to
reflect the move of Struts from Jakarta to an Apache top
level project. For compatibility purposes, TLDs with the
old URIs are still available, but users are encouraged to
update their usage accordingly.
New Committers
- We are pleased to welcome Steve Raeburn, Don Brown, Joe
Germuska and Niall Pemberton to the team of Struts
Committers.
Struts-Chain
- Still experimental, this new "contrib" package utilizes
the new Chain of Responsibilty package in the Jakarta
Sandbox to create a new breed of RequestProcessor. Look
for this to become the default implementation in a future
release.
MappingDispatchAction
- A new standard Action that dispatches to a method named
by the ActionMapping parameter.
Cancel handlers
- DispatchAction, LookupDispatchAction, and
MappingDispatchAction - Now provide default cancel handler
that can be overridden. It also also possible to specify
the default handler name.
Session-scoped ActionMessages
- You can now save ActionMessages in the session and have
them cleaned up after the first use. There is now an
alternate form of Action.saveMessages() that stores
messages in the session. ActionMessages.isAccessed()
returns true after the messages have been retrieved one
time. RequestProcessor.processCachedMessages() queries
isAccessed() to determine if it should remove the messages
from the session.
JA Mailreader
- The Struts Mailreader Example application now includes a
Japanese resource file.
Tiles EL
- The Tiles tags are now avaiable through the Struts EL
taglib, which is based on JSTL.
Wildcard Mappings
- You can now use wildcards in your action-mappings. For
details see
Using Wildcards in ActionMappings
as well as the Struts Mailreader Example application.
Action attributes
- An Action attribute has been added to the html img tag,
to match what's available on the html link tag now.
Module attribute
- A new "module" attribute is available on the forward
element as well as several of the core tags. This
attribute allows you to specify another module by name (or
"prefix") to create direct links between modules. The new
module attribute is preferered to the
contextRelative
attribute and can often be used in lieu of a
"SwitchAction".
What Changed?
This section highlights some of the changes that have taken
place since the last release. Subscribers to the
struts-dev mailing list
, receive reports of all changes as they are made.
General Changes
- 2004-09-02 - URI for Struts DTD changed to reflect
move to an Apache top level project.
- 2004-08-31 - Code changes to re-enable building with
JDK 1.3.
- 2003-03-14 - Move license on all source code files to
ASL 2.0.
- 2003-12-30 - Add inital STATUS LOG.
Build Changes
-
2004-07-09: struts.xsl: Give each "src" variable a
distinct name to follow XSL rules.
-
2004-07-08: build.properties.sample.lib: Add a
simplified build.properties file for use by developers
who are not actively involved in Jakarta development.
This template assumes the developer is using JARS from
our "lib" distribution.
- 2004-04-14 - project.properties: Adjust properties to
use alternate repo for nightly builds.
- 2003-08-09 - build.xml: Adjust loading order of
properties files to go from most local (current
directory) to most global
(${user.home}/build.properties).
- 2003-08-08 - maven.xml,project.xml - Maven build
files.
Configuration Changes
[
/conf/shared
]
- 2003-08-09 - Add two new elements <description-short%gt;
and <description-long> for use by struts config
file tools and document generation.
- 2003-07-04 - struts-config_1_2.dtd: Added 1.2
struts-config.dtd. This is a copy of the 1.1 DTD
except that the <data-source> "type" attribute
is now required because Struts does not supply a
default DataSource implementation.
Project-wide Changes
- 2004-01-14 - Update License format to please Maven
Checkstyle reports.
- 2004-01-10 - Removed @author javadoc tags from all
classes; updated volunteers.xml to list missing
people.
Default Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts
]
- 2003-07-04 - Globals: Removed deprecated
APPLICATION_KEY.
- 2003-07-03 - Globals,ActionServlet,RequestUtils: Moved
initialization of module prefix list to the new
ActionServlet.initModulePrefixes() method from
RequestUtils.getModulePrefixes() because of a
potential race condition documented in PR# 21091. This
also required a move of the RequestUtils.PREFIXES
constant to Globals.MODULE_PREFIXES_KEY.
Action Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.action
]
- 2004-09-10 - Corrected Japanese translation of message
resources.
- 2004-09-07 - Action: Use ActionMessages instead of
ActionErrors.
- 2004-09-03 - ActionServlet: Eliminate performance
bottleneck in obtaining request processor.
- 2004-09-03 - ActionForward: New copy constructor that
takes module parameter; deprecate copy constructor
missing this parameter.
- 2004-09-02 - Correct javadoc for ActionErrors.
- 2004-08-10 - DynaActionForm: Change Map's key from
String to Object in toString().
- 2004-07-01 - TestDynaActionFormClass: Correct
operation of static method calls.
- 2004-06-26 - Action: Add getErrors, getMessages,
addErrors, and AddMessages methods, to better manage
error handling.
- 2004-04-01 - ActionConfigMatcher: Added support for
multiple wildcard replacements.
- 2004-03-16 - ActionForward: Add "copy
constructor".
- 2004-01-24 - DynaActionForm: Enhance so that it can be
initialized using a FormBeanConfig object. Add
corresponding method to RequestUtils to create an
ActionForm by passing only a FormBeanConfig and an
ActionServlet object.
- 2004-01-19 - ActionMapping, ActionConfig: Push
"findException" from ActionMapping up to ActionConfig
so that everyone can take advantage of the superclass
search logic.
- 2003-09-29 -
RequestProcessor,ActionMappingMatcher,WildcardHelper:
Added optional wildcard support for action
mappings.
- 2003-09-11 - Action,ActionMessages,RequestProcessor:
Added ability to save ActionMessages in the session
and have them cleaned up after the first use.
- 2003-08-23 - Action: Deprecate
saveErrors(HttpServletRequest, ActionErrors) in favor
of saveErrors(HttpServletRequest,
ActionMessages).
- 2003-08-23 - RequestProcessor: Replaced ActionErrors
reference with ActionMessages.
- 2003-08-23 - ActionMessages, ActionErrors: Deprecated
ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR in favor of
ActionMessages.GLOBAL_MESSAGE.
- 2003-08-16 - ExceptionHandler: Added storeException()
method that takes an ActionMessage instead of
ActionError.
- 2003-08-13 - ActionError: Deprecate ActionError in
favor of ActionMessage
- 2003-08-08 -
ActionServlet,ActionFormBeans,ActionForwards,ActionMappings.java
v 1.13 : Removed references to ActionMappings,
ActionFormBeans, and ActionForwards.
- 2003-07-26 - Action: getLocale() now calls
RequestUtils.getUserLocale() to prevent session
creation.
- 2003-07-04 - Action,ActionException: Removed
deprecated getResources() method.
- 2003-07-04 - Action: Removed deprecated perform()
methods.
- 2003-07-03 - ActionServlet: Removed support for some
of the deprecated servlet init parameters.
- 2003-07-03 - Globals,ActionServlet,RequestUtils: Moved
initialization of module prefix list to the new
ActionServlet.initModulePrefixes() method from
RequestUtils.getModulePrefixes() because of a
potential race condition documented in PR# 21091. This
also required a move of the RequestUtils.PREFIXES
constant to Globals.MODULE_PREFIXES_KEY.
- 2003-07-02 - RequestProcessor: Deprecated log()
methods in favor of commons-logging.
- 2003-07-02 - ActionSerlvet: Removed deprecated
method.
- 2003-07-02 - ActionServlet: Removed references to
deprecated ApplicationConfig class.
- 2003-07-02 - ActionServlet,NoOpAction: Removed
deprecated ActionServlet debug level and logging
methods.
- 2003-07-02 - RequestProcessor: Changed processRoles()
to send a 403 Forbidden response if the role check
fails. Also removed deprecated methods.
- 2003-07-01 - Action: Removed deprecated constants and
toHex() method.
Actions Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.actions
]
- 2004-06-24 - RedeployableActionServlet: Provides
support for WebLogi hot-deploy.
- 2003-12-22 - DispatchAction: Add detection of
recursive calls.
- 2003-08-13 - DispatchAction,LookupDispatchAction: Add
'default' and a 'cancel' handlers to DispatchAction
and LookupDispatchAction.
- 2003-08-12 - MappingDispatchAction: Addition of
MappingDispatchAction that dispatches to a method
named by the ActionMapping parameter.
- 2003-07-11 -
DispatchAction,ForwardAction,IncludeAction,SwitchAction:
Throw exceptions from execute() method instead of
sending a failure response to the client. This allows
the exception handling mechanism to respond to the
error gracefully.
- 2003-07-03 - LookupDispatchAction: Fixed
synchronization problem (PR# 21224). Also refactored
some code into a new initLookupMap() method.
Config Package
[
org.apache.struts.config
]
-
2004-07-31 - Enhance support for "lazy" dynabeans or
POJO beans. "Lazy" DynaBeans will hopefully soon be
released with Beanutils 1.7.0. These changes will make
it easier to plug either a regular JavaBean or a
"lazy" DynaBean into struts as an ActionForm. *
FormBeanConfig now sets up the properties of DynaBeans
which use a MutableDynaClass. * FormBeanConfig now
handles POJO beans by wrapping the specified bean
using WrapDynaBean and the new BeanValidatorForm. *
RequestUtils has been changed so that properties
starting with "org.apache.struts" are not attempted to
be populated in the ActionForm.
- 2004-04-14 - ModuleConfig.java: Local, as well as
global, ActionForwards now observe pluggable
classes.
- 2004-04-08 - ModuleConfigImpl: Added a list to store
ActionConfigs to ensure when enumerated, they are in
the order in which they were added.
- 2004-02-17 - Undeprecate and Restore the functionality
for the 'type' attribute on form-beans and
global-forwards elements in the config file.
- 2004-02-13 - Add module property to ForwardConfig to
support direct cross-linking between modules.
- 2004-01-10 - Changed WildcardHelper methods from
statics to instance methods to allow subclasses to
override and customize behavior. Changed
WildcardHelper.match() to accept a generic Map
parameter rather than HashMap.
- 2003-08-08 - ConfigHelper,ConfigHelperInterface:
Removed references to ActionMappings, ActionFormBeans,
and ActionForwards.
- 2003-07-27 - ConfigHelper: Deprecate methods() since
they return objects that have been deprecated. The
ModuleConfig object should be used to lookup these
items.
- 2003-07-16 - ModuleConfigFactory: Catch only relevant
exceptions instead of Throwable and made LOG
final.
- 2003-07-04 - struts-config_1_2.dtd,
ControllerConfig.java: Removed deprecated debug
controller attribute.
- 2003-07-04 - ActionConfig: Removed deprecated
perform() methods.
- ApplicationConfig: removed in favor of
ModuleConfig.
Contrib Packages
[
/contrib
]
- 2004-06-29 - struts-chain: Wrap HttpServletRequest to
ensure correct handling of URIs.
- 2004-02-29 - struts-chain: Fix problem with large
uploads being deleted if validation failed.
- 2004-01-15 - struts-chain: Add Tiles support. Add null
check for type, to support forward actions; also add
commons loggging
- 2004-01-14 - struts-chain: Add support for 'unknown'
actions.
- 2004-07-07 - struts-faces: correct operation of <s:base>
tag and add portlet specific version.
- 2004-03-08 - struts-faces: updated for JSF 1.0 final
release.
- 2003-12-31 - struts-faces: Initial support for Tiles;
partial "Tilesization" of example app; *not* ready for
prime time but comments definately welcome.
- 2003-12-29 - struts-faces: Various updates regarding
the JSF Final Draft and to prepare for Tiles
support.
- 2003-12-17 - struts-jericho: Whiteboard directory for
Struts-Jericho, a working proposal for Struts
2.x.
- 2003-09-07 - strutsel.taglib.tiles: Addition of
"tiles-el" library
- 2004-08-10 - TilesUtilImpl: Remove "static" modifier
from doInclude() method.
- 2003-08-11 - struts-chain: Initial check-in of an
experimental library that decomposes the Struts 1.1
request procoessor, using the newly checked in Commons
Sandbox project called "chain" supporting the Chain of
Responsibility pattern.
- 2003-08-10 - strutsel: Added action attribute added in
base class
- 2003-08-10 - strutsel: Removed deprecated FormTag
attributes: name, scope, type.
- 2003-08-10 - struts-legacy: Removed package
(GenericDataSource and GenericConnection).
- 2003-07-26 - strutsel: Updated tags to match recent
attribute changes to tags in base library.
Plugins Package
[
org.apache.struts.plugins
]
- 2003-08-07 - DigestingPlugIn.java: Added
DigestingPlugIn.
Taglib Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.taglib
]
- 2004-06-26 - EmptyTag: Add support for arrays.
- 2004-02-24 - createDynamicJavascript: Move test for
null validator form inside "createDynamicJavascript"
so that those who use the tag to generate static
javascript don't get a JspException.
- 2003-09-09 - TagUtils: Log error message when keys or
bundles are missing.
- 2003-08-23 - TagUtils: Deprecated getActionErrors() in
favor of getActionMessages().
- 2003-08-16 - TagUtils: Replaced ActionError with
ActionMessage.
- 2003-08-02 - LocalStrings.properties,TagUtils: Move
message resources from util package.
- 2003-07-26 - TagUtils,RequestUtils: Added TagUtils
class for taglibs to use instead of RequestUtils. We
should migrate any method in RequestUtils that takes a
PageContext parameter and/or throws JspException. A
clean separation will help keep RequestUtils smaller
and allow the taglibs to be easily split off of the
core Struts distribution.
Bean Taglib Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.taglib.bean
]
- 2004-01-14 - WriteTag: Use client locale when applying
date format.
- 2004-01-01 - WriteTag: Add notes regarding discovering
localized notations.
- 2003-08-28 - IncludeTag: Rename setCookie to addCookie
since it isn't a bean setter
- 2003-07-13 - MessageTag: Simplified args[] creation,
deprecated unused defaultLocale variable.
HTML Taglib Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.taglib.html
]:
- 2004-08-24 - ImgTag: Correct usage in a module
environment.
- 2004-07-21 - Add accept-charset attribute to the
FormTag.
- 2004-07-01 - JavascriptValidatorTag - Correct naming
of JS methods when multiple forms are used.
- 2004-05-17 - OptionsCollectionTag,OptionsTag: Filter
values as well as labels.
- 2004-03-08 - JavascriptValidatorTag - Allow multiple
forms to be on the same page by generating a unique
variable name based on form name.
- 2004-02-14 - Substitute "-" for "/" in JavaScript
function name when form is subclass of
ValidatorActionForm.
- 2004-02-07 - Add "module" attribute to IncludeTag,
ImgTag, LinkTag, and RewriteTag, as well as to
Forward.
This permits a module to be referenced by name (or
"prefix) for direct cross-linking between
modules.
- 2004-02-04 - Run validator messages through a routine
to escape quote marks so that the emitted JavaScript
is syntactically correct.
- 2004-02-04 - Throw JspException when no form is found
in the ValidatorResources under the specified
'name'.
- 2004-01-18 - Add "action" attribute to img tag.
- 2004-01-09 - Add disabled element to TLD.
- 2004-01-03 - Add 10 new tests that cover "some" of the
functionality provided by html:options. More to
come.
- 2004-01-01 - In link-related tags, allow
LocalCharacterEncoding to be specified
conditionally.
- 2003-11-28 - JavascriptValidatorTag - Removed
getNextVar() and replaceChar() methods and use a
simpler javascript identifier naming scheme. All
variables with be named a0, a1, etc. to prevent using
reserved words as variable names.
- 2003-08-19 - Remove "request scope" references from
messages tag. The messages are searched for in all
scopes.
- 2003-08-10 - struts-html.xml,RewriteTag.java: Added
action attribute to rewrite tag.
- 2003-08-10 - Removed deprecated FormTag attributes:
name, scope, type.
- 2003-07-08 -
struts-html.xml,FormTag,JavascriptValidatorTag: Added
scriptLanguage property to the form and javascript
tags for PR# 17234. This property is ignored in XHTML
mode but allows developers to turn off the "language"
attribute of <script> tags in HTML.
- 2003-07-03 - FormTag: Added disabled check to focus
JavaScript
- 2003-07-02 - HtmlTag: Removed deprecated method.
- 2003-07-02 - BaseHandlerTag: Use
RequestUtils.isXhtml() instead of duplicating
logic.
- 2003-07-02 - ErrorsTag: Don't render new lines
Logic Taglib Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.taglib.logic
]:
- 2004-01-16 - logic:redirect - Add action
attribute.
- 2003-07-31 - PresentTag,RedirectTag: Replace
depricated method calls with non-deprecated ones.
Nested Taglib Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.taglib.nested
]:
- 2004-03-22 - Add missing filter attribute to
nested:options and nested:optionsCollection.
- 2004-01-01 - Correct operation of NestedMessage* tags
by implementing NestedPropertySupport rather than
NestedNameSupport.
- 2003-08-10 - Removed deprecated FormTag attributes:
name, scope, type.
- 2003-07-03 - struts-nested.xml: Added styleId to
nested:hidden
Tiles Taglib Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.taglib.tiles
]:
- 2004-05-17 - PutTag: Manage tag body content more
carefully to ensure pooled tags do not display old
content with empty tiles.
- 2003-09-07 - ImportAttributeTag,UseAttributeTag:
Removing "final" from class declaration, to allow
class to be extended in "tiles-el" (or other
classes).
- 2003-07-27 - xmlDefinition/XmlParser: Remove
deprecated/non functional digester logging
method.
- 2003-07-10 - TagUtils: Deprecated getProperty()
because it provided no value over calling
PropertyUtils.getProperty() directly.
- 2003-07-08 - TilesServlet,ActionComponentServlet:
Formatted code, removed deprecated constant.
- 2003-07-04 - ActionController: Call Action.execute()
instead of perform().
Tiles Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.tiles
]:
- 2003-09-13 - Controller: Added execute() method to
Tiles Controller interface.
- 2003-08-16 - portal.UserMenuAction: Replaced hardcoded
debugging with commons logging.
- 2003-07-31 - xmlDefinition/I18nFactorySet: Replace
deprecated constant reference with it's base interface
equal.
- 2003-07-31 - actions/DefinitionDispatcherAction:
Replace deprecated method with current one. Still one
method DefinitionUtil.setActionDefinition that doesn't
have a replacement. It's a simple method but I don't
know where a good place to move it would be.
- 2003-07-31 - actions/ReloadDefinitionsAction: Use
TilesUtil.createDefinitionsFactory(request,context)
instead of deprecated method().
- 2003-07-21 - struts-*config.xml: Remove the use of the
deprecated action NoOpAction. Replace by
ForwardAction.
- 2003-07-21 - *Action: Replace the deprecated
perform(..) method by the new execute(...)
method.
- 2003-07-12 - DefinitionDispatcherAction: Use
commons-logging to record error messages instead of
printing them to the response.
- 2003-07-10 - TilesAction: Removed deprecated perform()
method.
- 2003-07-09 - Removed deprecated
TilesUtil.applicationClass() method.
- 2003-07-08 - DefinitionsUtil.java: Deprecated debug
level constants, removed some deprecated methods.
- 2003-07-08 - ChannelFactorySet: Use commons-logging
instead of printing to stdout.
- 2003-07-07 - InsertTag: Fixed exception handling.
Instead of swallowing exceptions or printing the stack
trace on the page, the exceptions are logged and
rethrown as JspException for the page error handling
mechanism to deal with.
- 2003-07-07 - InsertTag: More code cleanup, removed
deprecated method, deprecated ROLE_DELIMITER because
it is only used internally to this class
- 2003-07-04 - ComponentContext: Removed deprecated
constructor
- 2003-07-02 - Changed UntyppedAttribute class name to
UntypedAttribute (spelling error).
Upload Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.upload
]:
- 2004-04-08 - CommonsMultipartRequestHandler: Made
CommonsFormFile serializable since it gets put into
the session
- 2004-03-22 - Allow MultipartPost with latin1
characters over Linux.
- 2004-01-21 - Add support for an "EncodingFilter" to
handle multibyte file names.
- 2003-11-26 - DiskMultipartRequestHandler: Deprecate
DiskMultipartRequestHandler and friends, which is the
buggy old upload implementation, no longer used as the
default as of Struts 1.1. This will be removed after
1.2 (meaning as of 1.3/2.0).
- 2003-07-31 - MultipartElement: Remove deprecated
methods.
Utility Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.util
]:
-
2004-07-21 - ModuleUtil: Add module support to the
bundle attribute.
2004-07-07 - TokenProcessor: Ensure that tokens
returned differ even if called quickly by tracking
last value used.
- 2004-04-08 - RequestUtils: Fixed inappropriate
serialization of ModuleConfig when a DynaActionForm
was put in the session.
- 2003-09-22 - LabelValueBean: Implement Comparable
interface.
- 2003-08-16 - ModuleException: Added getActionMessage()
to replace the getError() method.
- 2003-08-02 - LocalStrings.properties: Move message
resources to taglib TagUtil package.
- 2003-08-02 - ModuleUtils.java,RequestUtils.java: Moved
module related methods to new ModuleUtils class.
- 2003-07-26 - TagUtils,RequestUtils: Added TagUtils
class for taglibs to use instead of RequestUtils. We
should migrate any method in RequestUtils that takes a
PageContext parameter and/or throws JspException. A
clean separation will help keep RequestUtils smaller
and allow the taglibs to be easily split off of the
core Struts distribution.
- 2003-07-25 - RequestUtils: Backwards compatibility
fix. Changed ModuleConfig lookups to use
getModuleConfig so that default module config is
returned if one is not already present in the
request
- 2003-07-16 - RequestUtils: Make
retrieveMessageResources() module-aware by adding the
module prefix to the bundle name when retrieving from
application context.
- 2003-07-03 - LabelValueBean: Added equals and
hashCode() methods.
- 2003-07-03 - Globals,ActionServlet,RequestUtils: Moved
initialization of module prefix list to the new
ActionServlet.initModulePrefixes() method from
RequestUtils.getModulePrefixes() because of a
potential race condition documented in PR# 21091. This
also required a move of the RequestUtils.PREFIXES
constant to Globals.MODULE_PREFIXES_KEY.
- 2003-07-02 - RequestUtils,TestRequestUtils: Removed
deprecated "application" methods in favor of "module"
methods.
- 2003-07-02 - LabelValueBean: Added default
constructor.
Validator Package Changes
[
org.apache.struts.validator
]
- 2004-09-03 - ValidWhen: Added new test cases.
- 2004-09-03 - ValidWhen: Correct parsing of integer
values.
- 2004-06-24 - ValidWhen: "allow '_' (underscore) in
identifiers.
- 2004-04-16 - FieldChecks: Add optional variables to
configure various aspects of URL validation.
- 2004-04-03 - ValidatorPlugIn: Modify Validator PlugIn
to validate XML file and errros now throw an exception
to loudly flag an error. Remove deprecated classes,
now in Commons Validator.
- 2004-04-02 - Add a getValidationKey method to make it
eaiser for subclasses to use different rules for
finding the Validator form.
- 2004-02-20 - Changed FieldCheck so that it examines
all indexed fields and does not stop on the first
failure.
- 2004-01-17 - Changed initValidator() to accept an
ActionMessages object instead of ActionErrors; changed
ACTION_ERRORS_PARAM name to
ACTION_MESSAGES_PARAM.
- 2004-01-17 - Add section to Validator User Guide
listing standard validations.
- 2003-12-21 - Add rest of form to fr.CA formset to
correct operation; Use action form of html:link;
- 2003-10-06 - FieldChecks - Add validateUrl. Remove
deprecated validateRange.
- 2003-09-26 - FieldChecks,ValidWhen: Changed validator
signatures to use ActionMessages rather than
ActionErrors, was breaking validations.
- 2003-09-26 - validator-rules.xml: Modify JavaScript to
honor datePattern option.
- 2003-09-24 - validator-rules.xml: Add ability of
required to handle checkboxes, radio,select-one, and
select-multiple field types.
- 2003-07-30 - validator-rules.xml: Remove deprecated
range() method. Use intRange() instead.
- 2003-07-30 - validator-rules.xml: Allow intRange
validation of select-one and radio fields. In some
form combo boxes you might have the combo boxes
populated with valid choices plus one additional
choice with a caption something like "Choose one" and
a value 0f "-1". Then when the user attempts to submit
the form, you can look for the value of "-1" and yell
at them if they failed to pick something.
- 2003-07-28 -
JavascriptValidatorTag.java,ValidatorPlugIn.java:
Enhancement to allow checking of all constraints
instead of aborting. The default is same as struts
1.1.
- 2003-07-26 - Resources: Deprecated
Resources.getLocale() because it created sessions. Use
RequestUtils.getUserLocale() instead.
- 2003-07-02 - Resources: Rewrote getArgs() method to
use arrays and loops, which removes limitation of 4
args.
- 2003-07-02 - Resources: Remove deprecated methods
- 2003-07-02 - Validator,ValdiatorUtils: Changed
processRoles() to send a 403 Forbidden response if the
role check fails. Also removed deprecated
methods.
- 2003-07-01 - Add validwhen validation to package.
Documentation Application Changes
[
struts-documentation.war
]:
- 2004-08-31 - Added a Struts download page, reflecting
the move to an Apache top level project.
- 2004-08-24 - Fix build script errors on Eclipse HOW-TO
page.
- 2004-07-11 - Add links to development releases.
- 2004-07-07 - Rename "status.xml" to "roadmap.xml" to
avoid confusion with STATUS.txt file.
- 2004-07-07 - Extend prior draft of bylaws page with
additional material from Jakarta site and link to main
menu.
- 2004-03-28 - Added Trifork server to Installing Struts
on Various Containers section.
- 2004-03-24 - Document new exception-throwing behavior
in html:javascript when dynamicJavascript is true but
no form can be identified.
MailReader Example Application Changes
[
struts-example.war
]:
- 2004-03-07 - Various refactorings to JSP pages,
welcome and login action.
- 2004-01-08 - Use (new) DigestingPlugIn to create the
menu of server types.
- 2003-12-21 - Change to use typical welcome.do -
welcome.jsp approach; Use "name" rather than
"attribute" in configuration, per documented and
common practice; Use action form of html:link
- 2003-10-25 - Updated to include the usage of wildcards
in action mappings.
- 2003-08-30 -
AlternateApplicationResources_ja.properties,ApplicationResources_ja.properties:
Provide Japanese resources.
- 2003-08-16 - Changed ActionError to
ActionMessage.
Combined Examples Application
[
struts-examples.war
]
- 2004-09-07 - Fix problems with running the application
while not connected to the internet.
- 2004-09-03 - Change Commons Validator DTD to version
1.1.3.
- 2004-01-17 - Add tests to to hmlt:link page for
forwards, actions, and pages.
- 2004-01-16 - exercises: Add test pages for html:img
and logic:forward,redirect. Add test pages for
html:img and logic:forward,redirect tags
- 2004-01-08 - Convert Taglib-Exercises, Upload, and
Validator example applications into modules of a
combined examples application.
Exercise module Changes
:
- 2004-01-09 - Enable inputForward.
- 2004-01-01 - Add several tests to bean:write:
localized numbers; date format pattern;
localization.
- 2003-07-23 - html-messages.jsp: Updated to reference
Globals constants.
Upload Example module Changes
- 2004-01-09 - Enable inputForward; use message tags for
validation errors; refine markup on display page.
- 2004-01-08 - Convert to Upload example application to
module under the "examples" application.
- 2003-08-16 - Changed ActionError to
ActionMessage.
Validator Example module Changes
- 2004-06-25 - Update arg elements to use new dynamic
feature, that does not requiring numbering.
- 2004-03-25 - Modify example to test proper behaviour
is a property is named 'name'.
- 2004-01-09 - Enable inputForward.
- 2004-01-08 - Convert to Validator Example application
to module under the "examples" application.
- 2003-12-21 - Add rest of form to fr.CA formset to
correct operation.
- 2003-09-24 - Modify Validator example to show use of
'required' for checkboxes, radio,select-one, and
select-multiple field types.
