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| <section name="6.1 Release Notes" href="release_notes"/> |
| <section name="Beta Notes" href="beta"> |
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| <p>This section contains the release notes for |
| <strong>nightly build</strong> of the Struts Framework, |
| for changes that have taken place since |
| <a href="release-notes-1.1.html">Version 1.1 </a> |
| was released. For a complete list of changes since the last |
| production release, see the <a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a> </p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Beta Fixes" href="beta.Changes"> |
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| <p> |
| <strong>ApplicationConfig:</strong> In Struts 1.2 was removed. |
| </p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="Introduction" href="Introduction"> |
| |
| <p>The remainder of this document contains the release notes for |
| <strong>nightly build</strong> of the Struts Framework, |
| and covers changes that have taken place since |
| <a href="release-notes-1.1.html">Version 1.1</a> |
| was released. The following sections cover |
| <a href="#New">New Features</a> and <a href="#Changes">Changes</a> |
| to Struts.</p> |
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| </section> |
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| <section name="What's Included?" href="Included"> |
| |
| <p>The binary distribution of this release includes the following |
| files relevant to Struts:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><code>INSTALL</code> - Brief installation instructions. See |
| the <code>Struts Documentation Application</code>, or online at |
| <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/">http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/</a> |
| for more information.</li> |
| <li><code>LICENSE</code> - The Apache Software Foundation license that |
| defines the terms under which you can use Struts (and other software |
| licensed by Apache).</li> |
| <li><code>README</code> - A brief introduction to Struts.</li> |
| <li><code>lib/</code> - Directory containing files you will need in |
| your own applications. The individual files of interest are: |
| <ul> |
| <li><code>commons-*.jar</code> - Release packages from the |
| <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/">Jakarta Commons |
| Project</a> that Struts relies on. You are welcome to use these |
| classes in your own applications. These JAR files should be |
| copied into the <code>/WEB-INF/lib</code> directory of |
| your web application.</li> |
| <li><code>struts.jar</code> - JAR file that contains the compiled |
| Java classes of Struts. You must |
| place this file in the <code>/WEB-INF/lib</code> directory of |
| your web application.</li> |
| <li><code>struts-xxxxx.tld</code> - The tag library descriptor files |
| for the Struts 1.1 tag libraries (bean, html, and logic). |
| You must place these files in the <code>/WEB-INF</code> |
| directory of your web application, and reference them with |
| appropriate <code><taglib></code> directives in your |
| web.xml file.</li> |
| <li><code>jdbc2_0-stdext.jar</code> - The JDBC 2.0 Optional Package |
| API classes (package <code>javax.sql</code>). You will need to |
| include this file in the <code>/WEB-INF/lib</code> directory |
| of your application, if it is not already made visible to web |
| applications by your servlet container.</li> |
| <li><code>struts-config_1_2.dtd</code> - The Document Type Definition |
| (DTD) for the Struts 1.2 configuration file (which is typically named |
| <code>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</code>. Your configuration file |
| will be validated against an internal copy of this DTD -- this |
| copy is available for reference purposes only.</li> |
| <li><code>struts-config_1_1.dtd</code> - The Document Type Definition |
| (DTD) for the Struts 1.1 configuration file (which is typically named |
| <code>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</code>. Your configuration file |
| will be validated against an internal copy of this DTD -- this |
| copy is available for reference purposes only.</li> |
| <li><code>struts-config_1_0.dtd</code> - The Document Type Definition |
| (DTD) for the Struts 1.0 configuration file (which is typically named |
| <code>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</code>. Your configuration file |
| will be validated against an internal copy of this DTD -- this |
| copy is available for reference purposes only.</li> |
| <li><code>web-app_2_2.dtd</code> - The Document Type Definition (DTD) |
| for web.xml files conforming to the Servlet 2.2 specification. |
| This copy is for reference purposes only.</li> |
| <li><code>web-app_2_3.dtd</code> - The Document Type Definition (DTD) |
| for web.xml files conforming to the Servlet 2.3 specification. |
| This copy is for reference purposes only.</li> |
| </ul></li> |
| <li><code>webapps/</code> - Web Application Archive (WAR) files for the |
| web applications that are included with Struts.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>The following Jakarta Commons libraries are included with this release |
| of Struts:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Commons BeanUtils 1.6.1</li> |
| <li>Commons Collections 2.1</li> |
| <li>Commons Digester 1.5</li> |
| <li>Commons FileUpload 1.0</li> |
| <li>Commons Lang 2.0</li> |
| <li>Commons Logging 1.0.3</li> |
| <li>Commons Validator 1.1.0</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="What's New?" href="New"> |
| |
| <p>Following are highlights of the new features. In the next section, we |
| provide links to the JavaDocs for the affected classes.</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>New Configuration DTD</strong></p> |
| <p> The Struts Configuration 1.1 DTD has been deprecated in favor of the |
| <code><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_2.dtd">struts-config_1_2.dtd</a></code>. |
| In the Struts 1.2 release, existing Struts configuration files can be |
| loaded using either DTD version. The new DTD adds two new elements <display-name> |
| and <description> to the struts-config element. |
| There are for use by struts config file tools and document generation. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p><strong>New Dependencies on Commons packages</strong></p> |
| <p>The resource component of Struts 1.1 has been found to be useful in |
| general Java development (and not just useful for building Struts-based |
| web applications), and have been migrated into the |
| <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/">Jakarta Commons Project</a>. |
| As a result, the current development version of Struts has been modified |
| to rely on this Commons package, rather than the |
| Struts internal version. In nearly every case, this involved changing |
| only the <code>import</code> statements at the top of your classes. Any |
| applications that utilize these classes will need to be modified in the |
| same way. </p> |
| <p>The following Commons packages contain the replacements for the |
| corresponding Struts 1.1 classes:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>Resources Package</strong> |
| [<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/resources.html"><code>org.apache.commons.resources</code></a>] - |
| <code>org.apache.struts.utils.MessageResources</code></li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p><strong>NOTE! XML Parser Prerequisite Updated</strong></p> |
| |
| <p>Struts now depends on an XML parser that conforms to the JAXP/1.1 |
| (rather than JAXP/1.0) APIs. Parsers known to work include the JAXP/1.1 |
| reference implementation, and Xerces 1.3.1.</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>SOURCE DEVELOPERS NOTE! Ant Prerequisite Updated</strong></p> |
| <p>To build Struts from source Ant 1.5.2 or later is now required. This |
| does not affect developers that use Struts from the binary distribution.</p> |
| |
| |
| <p>The source for these components is available in the Struts source |
| distribution. Binary distributions may also be made available with the Struts |
| download area. As optional components, these products have their own |
| release cycles.</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Action Package Additions</strong></p> |
| <p>The following new features have been added to the basic controller |
| framework [<code>org.apache.struts.action</code>]:</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Actions Package Additions</strong></p> |
| <p>The following new features have been added to the adapters between the |
| incoming HTTP request and the corresponding business logic |
| framework [<code>org.apache.struts.actions</code>]:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>The DispatchAction now provides default cancel handler that can be overridden. |
| It also also possible to specify the default handler name.</li> |
| <li>The LookupDispatchAction now provides default cancel handler that can be overridden. |
| It also also possible to specify the default handler name.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p><strong>Util Package Additions</strong></p> |
| <p>The following new features have been added to the utility classes |
| [<code>org.apache.struts.util</code>]:</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Validator Package Additions</strong></p> |
| <p>The following new features have been added to the validator classes |
| [<code>org.apache.struts.validator</code>]:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>The ValidatorPlugin: It is now possible to force the client side |
| Javascript validation to check all constraints, instead of stopping |
| at the first error. By setting a new property, stopOnFirstError, |
| on the validator plug in tag to false. This is in the struts-config.xml as follow: |
| <pre> |
| <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn"> |
| <set-property property="pathnames" |
| value="/WEB-INF/validation.xml,/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml"/> |
| <set-property property="stopOnFirstError" value="true"/> |
| </plug-in> |
| </pre> |
| </li> |
| <li>validator-rules.xml[intRange]: 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 yell at them if they failed to pick something. |
| |
| |
| </li> |
| |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p><strong>HTML Taglib Package Additions</strong></p> |
| <p>The following new features have been added to the |
| <em>struts-html</em> custom tag library [<code>org.apache.struts.taglib.html</code>]:</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Logic Taglib Package Additions</strong></p> |
| <p>The following new features have been added to the |
| <em>struts-logic</em> custom tag library [<code>org.apache.struts.taglib.logic</code>]:</p> |
| |
| |
| <p><strong>Documentation Additions</strong></p> |
| <p>The following new features have been added to the Struts Documentation |
| application (and corresponding contents on the Struts web site):</p> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="Operational Changes and Bug Fixes" href="Changes"> |
| |
| <p><strong>Struts Configuration Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the configuration |
| files related to Struts:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Japanese resources updates for Struts, its example, upload, tiles-documentation.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><strong>Config Package</strong></p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Action Package Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the basic |
| controller framework (package <code>org.apache.struts.action</code>):</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Upload Package Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the file upload |
| package (package <code>org.apache.struts.upload</code>):</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>None.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p><strong>Utility Package Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the utilities |
| (package <code>org.apache.struts.util</code>):</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>RequestUtils: </li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p><strong>Bean Taglib Package Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the |
| <em>struts-bean</em> custom tag library |
| [<code>org.apache.struts.taglib.bean</code>]:</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>HTML Taglib Package Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the |
| <em>struts-html</em> custom tag library (package |
| <code>org.apache.struts.taglib.html</code>):</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Logic Taglib Package Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the |
| <em>struts-logic</em> custom tag library (package |
| <code>org.apache.struts.taglib.logic</code>):</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>None.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p><strong>Documentation Application Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes to the Struts Documentation |
| application (and corresponding contents on the Struts web site) have |
| occurred:</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>MailReader Example Application Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes to the Struts MailReader Example Application |
| have occurred:</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Template Example Application Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes to the Struts Template Example |
| Application have occurred:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Removed.</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p><strong>Exercise Taglib Example Application Changes</strong></p> |
| <p>The following changes and bug fixes to the Struts Exercise Taglib Example |
| Application have occurred:</p> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="What's different?" href="diff"> |
| |
| <p>This section provides links to the Struts JavaDoc for any classes that have |
| been added or deprecated since the Struts 1.0 release. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Previously deprecated classes and packages removed in Struts 1.2</strong></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Removed: |
| <code>org.apache.struts.xxxx</code> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p><strong>Packages added in Struts 1.2</strong></p> |
| |
| |
| <p><strong>Classes added in Struts 1.2</strong></p> |
| <p>action</p> |
| |
| <p>actions</p> |
| |
| <p>taglib.html</p> |
| |
| <p>taglib.logic</p> |
| |
| <p>upload</p> |
| |
| <p>util</p> |
| |
| <p><strong>Classes with members added in Struts 1.2</strong></p> |
| <p><a href="../api/org/apache/struts/action/ActionServlet.html">action.A</a><a href="../api/org/apache/struts/action/ActionServlet.html">ActionServlet</a></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>initModuleConfigFactory()</li> |
| <li>methods created for backward-compatiblity only</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><a href="../api/org/apache/struts/validator/ValidatorPlugin.html">validator.html</a></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>isStopOnFirstError</li> |
| <li>setStopOnFirstError</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><strong>Classes deprecated between Struts 1.1 and Struts 1.2</strong></p> |
| <p>action</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="../api/org/apache/struts/xxx/xxxx.html"> xxx</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p><strong>Classes with members deprecated between Struts 1.1 and Struts 1.2</strong></p> |
| <p><a href="../api/org/apache/struts/xxxx/xxxx.html">class.method</a></p> |
| |
| |
| <p><strong>Classes with members removed between Struts 1.1 and Struts 1.2</strong></p> |
| <p>validator-rules.xml, range() - use intRange() instead.</p> |
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| </section> |
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