In that case, how are you differentiating between 1.2.0 and 1.2.1?
Struts 1.2.0 is the code in CVS under the tag STRUTS_1_2_0
And if all, I need to get the CVS code, which days code should I take?
Normally when you check code out of CVS, you get the newest of everything -- so it's not a specific day's code, it's NOW -- this is what's known as CVS HEAD, and technically, it's a moving target, although realistically, it hasn't been changing that quickly in the last couple of months.
It is always possible using CVS to check out code to a specific date and time, or when tags have been applied, to a specific tag.
If you use CVS to keep a current copy of the working code, then it's easy to keep up to date -- you can just do a CVS update and pick up any changes, bug fixes, or enhancements which have been made since your last checkout. Much easier than downloading a new source package, especially if you also make any local modifications to the code yourself -- Struts will deal with merging repository changes into your local copy.
It just so happens that I just applied a patch to ExceptionHandler, so at this very instant, CVS is one bug "better" than the nightly source distribution (until the next one is made, of course.)
Joe
Abhishek
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 13:09, Joe Germuska wrote:At 12:35 PM -0700 5/18/04, Abhishek Khandelwal wrote: >Thanks Joe for your detailed reply. > >Where can I get Struts 1.2.1 Version source code? >I am little skeptible of taking the todays nightly-build source code.
There's no "release candidate" code for 1.2.1. Once commons-validator is released, we'll assess the open bugs, fix what we can and mark the others for "LATER", and then use that day's "nightly-build source code" to cut 1.2.1 -- so you can't do much better than CVS HEAD. (I never did understand the appeal of downloading source tarballs; it's much easier to keep up with changes using CVS...)
>I have few more questions, like, does the 1.2.1 version support Tomcat >5.0. Since I am using Tomcat5. I can see from build-test.xml that it has >cactus test case for tomcat5. > >Also, if it supports tomcat5, would it be compatible to Servlet2.4? > >And lastly, would it be backward compatible, in terms of supporting >previous versions of tomcat?
Regarding Servlet versions, Struts is built to work against Servlet 2.2/JSP 1.1. One of the outstanding bugs refers to some issues with differences between the HttpServletRequest interface, (as implemented in MultipartRequestWrapper) which has sprouted new methods in 2.3 and again in 2.4. But if you aren't using any of those things, then it should work fine in Tomcat 5 -- several people who post to this list or the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list refer to running Struts under Tomcat 5, although I have no personal experience.
Open source code is yours -- especially if you're building from source -- so just grab what's in CVS HEAD and if you find bugs, fix 'em! (Or at least report 'em.) This is how we make it better.
Joe
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