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<h4 id="a20051218.1">18 Dec 2005 - New Struts Committer: Richard
Feit</h4>
<p>
Please join us in welcoming Rich Feit as a new Struts
committer. Rich is
a Beehive committer and PMC member. In addition to being a
Struts user
for years (Beehive is built on Struts), he has been pivotal in
designing
and coding Struts Ti, both the initial annotationed Beehive
version and
the current WebWork merger effort. His experience in Struts
migration
tools in particular will be key to making Struts Action a
success. We
look forward to his continued contributions as a committer.
</p>
<p>
Welcome, Rich!
</p>
<p>
PMC vote: 7 +1, non-binding committer votes: 3 +1
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20051214.4">14 Dec 2005 - Apache Struts to release Struts
1.3.0
as the "Action Framework"</h4>
<p>
[Note: As of version 1.3.5, the "Action Framework" label
was dropped, and Struts is just Struts again.]
</p>
<p>
The Apache Struts flagship product,
the leading web application framework for Java,
is now known as the "Struts".
</p>
<p>
To make the framework easier to maintain,
Apache Struts subdivided the original monolithic distribution
into several
subprojects.
Each subproject has its own website, documentation, and
release cycle,
and may be downloaded separately.
For consistency, the original core framework component also
has its own name
now: "Struts".
The JARs and external dependencies for the extensions to
Struts
are being bundled into a convenient distribution known as the
"Struts Action
Framework Library".
</p>
<p>
The Struts 1.3.0 release will include several
exciting new
features, including:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Composable Request Processor</li>
<li>ActionDynaForm interfaces</li>
<li>Arbitrary configuration properties</li>
<li>Catalog and Command Elements</li>
<li>Enhanced Global Exception Handlers</li>
<li>Extends attribute for XML configurations</li>
<li>"isCommitted" Exception Handling</li>
<li>Postback Actions</li>
<li>Wildcard ActionConfig properties</li>
</ul>
<p>
The key change in this release is the "composable request
processor".
The request processor is the framework's "kernal".
The request processor methods are now command objects in a
flexible chain of
commands.
Rather than subclassing a monolithic object,
developers can now just replace commands with their own
implementations.
Commands can also be inserted or removed, if needed,
to extend or streamline the request processing gauntlet,
to better meet the needs of different kinds of applications.
</p>
<p>
The Struts 1.3.0 release,
and other milestones on the Apache Struts roadmap,
were discussed at ApacheCon on Tuesday, December 13, 2005, in
a talk,
entitled "Struts 2006: An Embarrassment of Riches".
<a href="http://people.apache.org/~husted/apachecon-2005-action.pdf">
Slides from the talk are available online</a>
.
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20051214.3">14 Dec 2005 - Apache Struts and Open Symphony
WebWork
communities to merge</h4>
<p>
Apache Struts,
the leading web application framework for Java, and Open
Symphony WebWork,
a leader in technical innovation, are working to merge their
communities
and codebases.
</p>
<p>
"A merger is an elegant approach to evolution of existing
applications
based on action-oriented frameworks,"
said Craig McClanahan, founder of the Struts project.
</p>
<p>
The merger seems like a win-win for the frameworks.
"The technical benefit is that WebWork has already done most
everything
that is on the Struts Action roadmap," noted Ted Husted, a
Struts committer.
"This is a way that [Struts] shops can use incremental
integration to take
advantage of new technologies that are already part of
WebWork, such as Spring."
</p>
<p>
"My hope is to take advantage of a larger community (Struts)
to allow
all of us to do a bit less individual effort."
said Patrick Lightbody of WebWork.
"I would expect moving to Struts lets us focus on our families
and day
jobs a bit more."
</p>
<p>
Apache projects help developers balance day jobs with
volunteer work
through the practice of collaborative developement.
Decisions are made jointly by the core community,
rather than by one or two key individuals.
The projects are organized so that individual developers can
focus on
other matters for a time,
and then return to the development community as schedules
allow.
</p>
<p>
Over the past few months,
Apache Struts has more than doubled its number of active
committers.
With the addition of two WebWork developers,
there are about fifteen active volunteers.
Right now, about half of the committers are working on the
original Struts
Action Framework and half are working on the new Struts Shale
Framework,
which utilizes JavaServer Faces.
Several volunteers are now working with both frameworks.
</p>
<p>
The merger and other milestones on the Apache Struts roadmap
were discussed
in a talk at ApacheCon on Tuesday, December 13, 2005, entitled
<a href="http://people.apache.org/~husted/apachecon-2005-action.pdf">"Struts 2006:
An Embarrassment of Riches".</a>
The talk will be presented by Lightbody, Husted, and Don
Brown, another
Struts Committer.
The Struts Shale framework is being discussed at a second
talk,
presented by McClanahan, entitled "Shale: The Next Struts??"
<a href="http://people.apache.org/~craigmcc/apachecon-2005-shale.pdf">
Slides from the talk are available online</a>
.
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20051214.2">14 Dec 2005 - Apache Struts offers "Shale"
for JSF</h4>
<p>[Note: <a href="http://shale.apache.org/">
Shale is now a top-level ASF project.</a>]
</p>
<p>
To give JavaServer Faces developers a head start on building
scalable
web applications for the enterprise,
Apache Struts now offers the Shale Framework.
Like the original "Struts",
Shale provides developers with a front controller,
and several other components,
to provide the "invisible underpinnings that hold an
application together".
</p>
<p>
"When JavaServer Faces arrived,"
explains the Struts website,
"our development community chose to 'make new friends but keep
the old'.
Some of us want (or need) to stick with the original
request-based
framework.
Others are ready to switch to an component-based framework
that builds on
JavaServer Faces.
We offer both frameworks because we have volunteers to create
and maintain
both frameworks."
</p>
<p>
Shale is based on the recently standardized JavaServer Faces
APIs,
and focuses on adding value,
rather than redundantly implementing features that JSF already
provides.
Shale will run on any compliant JSF implementation,
including the one being developed by the Apache MyFaces
project.
It also includes many features that Struts users appreciate,
such as supporting client side validation and the Tiles
framework.
</p>
<p>
Struts Shale was discussed by Craig McClanahan in a talk at
ApacheCon on
Tuesday, December 13, 2005, entitled "Shale: The Next
Struts??".
<a href="http://people.apache.org/~craigmcc/apachecon-2005-shale.pdf">
Slides
from the talk are available online</a>
.
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20051214.1">14 Dec 2005 - Apache Struts to release
"standalone" Tiles</h4>
<p>
Apache Struts introduced Tiles as a integral component of its
Struts 1.1
release in June 2003.
Since then, several other projects have been using Tiles,
even though it was embedded in the Struts JAR.
Soon, it will be much easier to use Tiles with products like
Jakarta Velocity,
Apache MyFaces, and Struts Shale.
</p>
<p>
Tiles is a templating framework that can be used to create a
common look and
feel for a web site or application and to create reusable view
components.
A key aspect of Tiles is that it can be configured from a XML
configuration file.
A Tile definition can "extend" another definition,
giving the component an object-oriented feel.
Tile developers can create a base Tile (or screen layout),
and then indicate only how other Tiles differ from the base.
Changes made to a base Tile "cascade" to Tiles that extend
that base.
Significant changes can be made to the layout of a website
just by changing a single Tile definition.
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20051125">25 Nov 2005 - Struts 1.2.8 (General
Availability)</h4>
<p>
The Struts team is pleased to announce the release of Struts
1.2.8 for
General Availability. This release is primarily to fix a Cross
Site
Scripting (XSS) vulnerability identified in Struts by
www.hacktics.com and
supersedes the earlier 1.2.7 version as the latest official
release of
Struts from The Apache Software Foundation.
</p>
<p>
For more information on the XSS Vulnerability and solutions
please see the
following pages:
<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsXssVulnerability">
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsXssVulnerability</a>
and
<a href="http://www.hacktics.com/AdvStrutsNov05.html">
http://www.hacktics.com/AdvStrutsNov05.html</a>
</p>
<p>
The binary, source and library distributions are available
from the Struts
download page:
<a href="http://struts.apache.org/download.cgi">
http://struts.apache.org/download.cgi</a>
</p>
<p>
The Release Notes are available on the Struts web site at:
<a href="http://struts.apache.org/1.2.8/userGuide/release-notes.html">
http://struts.apache.org/1.2.8/userGuide/release-notes.html</a>
</p>
<p>
Please check the wiki for the latest information on upgrading:
<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsUpgrade">
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsUpgrade</a>
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20051023.2">23 Oct 2005 - New Struts Committer: Laurie
Harper</h4>
<p>
Please join us in welcoming Laurie Harper as a new Struts
committer. Over
the last few months, he has made hundreds of helpful posts to
our lists.
Laurie is the author of the very cool
<a href="http://www.zotechsoftware.com/products/struts-sidebar">
Struts Sidebar</a>
,
and he has contributed several patches to Struts Classic,
including fixes to our unit tests (a thankless job).
</p>
<p>
Welcome, Laurie! .. We're looking forward to many more green
bars!
</p>
<p>
PMC vote: 7 +1 (binding), 1 +1 (non-binding)
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20051023.1">23 Oct 2005 - New Struts Committer: Sean
Schofield</h4>
<p>
Please join us in welcoming Sean Schofield as a Struts
committer. Sean is an
Apache MyFaces committer who also been been working on Struts
Shale.
</p>
<p>
Welcome, Sean! .. Now you can apply your own patches!
</p>
<p>
PMC vote: 5 +1, 1 +0
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20051023.0">23 Oct 2005 - New Struts Committer: Greg
Reddin</h4>
<p>
Please join us in welcoming Greg Reddin as a Struts committer.
Greg has been
an active Struts contributor for a long time now, and has been
helping us
move Tiles towards a standalone subproject.
</p>
<p>
Welcome, Greg! .. We look forward to rapid progress on
Standalone Tiles!
</p>
<p>
PMC vote: 6 +1
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20050821">21 Aug 2005 - New Struts Committer: Gary
vanMatre</h4>
<p>
Please join us in welcoming Gary vanMatre as a new Struts
committer.
Gary has been quite busy proposing code for the "Clay" plug-in
on Shale,
and has also been supportive on the dev and user mailing lists
(for both Struts and MyFaces).
We look forward to his energy being available to the entire
Struts project as well.
</p>
<p>
Welcome, Gary! .. And now you can process some of your own
outstanding code diffs :-).
</p>
<p>
PMC vote: 5 +1
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20050715">15 Jul 2005 - New Struts Committer: Wendy
Smoak</h4>
<p>
Please join me in welcoming Wendy Smoak as a new Struts
committer.
Wendy has been a tremendous asset to the Struts community for
several years now,
providing unflagging support to the user base as well as
invaluable input and feedback to the development team.
We look forward to her continued contributions as a committer.
</p>
<p>
Welcome, Wendy!
</p>
<p>
PMC vote: 7 +1, 2 +0.
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20050526">26 May 2005 - Struts 1.2.7 (General
Availability)</h4>
<p>
The Struts team is pleased to announce the release of Struts
1.2.7 for
General Availability. This release includes new
functionality, as well as numerous fixes for bugs which were
reported
against the previous release, and supersedes the earlier 1.2.4
version
as the latest official release of Struts from The Apache
Software
Foundation.
</p>
<p>
The binary, source and library distributions are available
from the
<a href="http://struts.apache.org/download.cgi">Struts
download page</a>
.
The
<a href="http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/release-notes.html">
Release Notes</a>
are available on the Struts web site.
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20050331">31 March 2005 - New Struts PMC Chair</h4>
<p>
<a href="http://struts.apache.org/dev/volunteers.html#martinc">
Martin Cooper</a>
has been appointed
<strong>Struts PMC Chair</strong>
by the ASF Board at their
<strong>February 2005</strong>
meeting.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://struts.apache.org/dev/volunteers.html#craigmcc">
Craig McClanahan</a>
stepped down
as the Struts PMC Chair in February 2005. In Craig's words "I
will continue to be active, but it's time
for someone else to take the administrative
responsibilities.".
</p>
<p>
The Struts PMC nominated Martin Cooper as their preferred
choice for the Struts PMC
Chair to the ASF Board which was approved unanimously. Minutes
of the ASF Board meeting should
be available
<a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">
here</a>
in due course.
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20050225">25 Feb 2005 - New Struts Committer: Hubert
Rabago</h4>
<p>
We are pleased to announce that Hubert Rabago has accepted an
invitation to join the
Struts development community as a committer. We were impressed
by Hubert's sustained
participation in both the user and dev mailing lists, where he
has demonstrated
knowledge and respect for the community. He has clearly put
considerable energy into
how Struts works, both from a code perspective as well as a
community perspective.
</p>
<p>
So, we've begun the formalities to get his account set up and
such, and we look forward
to the day when we can tell him to commit his own darn
patches.
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20050217">17 Feb 2005 - New Struts subproject: Struts
Flow</h4>
<p>
The Apache Struts team is pleased to announce the adoption of
its latest
subproject, Struts Flow, a continuations-based approach to
complex web
workflows. Struts Flow orginated at the struts.sf.net project
and has
been formally adopted now as a Struts subproject. Struts Flow
is a port
of Apache Cocoon's Control Flow to Struts to allow complex
workflow,
like multi-form wizards, to be easily implemented using
continuations-capable Javascript and eventually Java.
</p>
<p>
Today, Struts is comprised of nine subprojects: Core, Taglib,
Tiles, El,
Faces, Scripting, Applications, Shale, and (now) Flow. Struts
Flow is
different from Struts Scripting/BSF as where scripting brings
any
BSF-supported scripting language to Struts Actions, Struts
Flow works on
redefining the traditional Model 2 state-driven workflow into
simplified
scripots whos eexecute spans multiple requests. Currently, the
Rhino
engine, a Javascript implementation, is used to provide
continuations
support, but with the maturation of
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/javaflow/">
Commans Javaflow</a>
- a Java-based continuations implementation,
Java will soon be supported as well.
</p>
<p>
For more information, visit the
<a href="http://struts.apache.org/flow/index.html">
Struts Flow website</a>
.
</p>
<hr/>
<h4 id="a20050123">23 Jan 2005 - New Struts subproject: Shale</h4>
<p>
The Apache Struts team is pleased to announce the adoption of
its latest
subproject, Struts Shale, a JSF-based framework. The Shale
codebase was
initiated by Craig McClanahan in the Struts sandbox, and
development
traffic regarding Shale has steadily increased. As the product
is heading
towards an initial release, the Struts PMC felt it time to
formally adopt
Struts Shale as a subproject.
</p>
<p>
Today, Struts is comprised of eight subprojects: Core, Taglib,
Tiles, El,
Faces, Scripting, Applications, and (now) Shale. An initiative
is underway
to extract the Struts Tiles code into a standalone product.
Several Struts
developers plan to apply to the ASF to incubate
<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/struts/TilesTopLevel">Tiles as
a toplevel
project</a>
.
</p>
<p>
For more about the Struts Shale subproject, see the
<a href="http://struts.apache.org/kickstart.html">Kickstart
FAQ</a>
.
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