Hi all, I'm using the latest struts-2.3.15.3 on our web application. Is it fine to use the latest third party libraries other than what's included in the distribution (struts-2.3.15.3-lib.zip and struts-2.3.15.3-all.zip) ?
For example Is it fine to use javassist-3.18.0-GA, commons-io-2.4, freemarker-2.3.20, commons-beanutils-1.8.3, commons-validator-1.4.0 rather than the included javassist-3.11.0.GA, commons-io-2.0.1, freemarker-2.3.19, commons-beanutils-1.8.0, commons-validator-1.3.1 I'm excluding libraries that are not simple drop-in replacements, like commons-collections4-4.0 is not a simple drop-in replacement for commons-collections-3.1. Basically I'm asking whether struts-2.3.15.3 is sort of "certified" to be working properly with the bundled libraries ? Is there a high degree of something breaking if I use the latest libraries ? (Are the libraries there because developers haven't gotten the time to update them or because they are the versions that are known to be "rock solid" so I should stick with them ?)
