On 5/26/06, John Mettraux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Anthony,

On 5/24/06, Anthony Bigbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/24/06, John Mettraux <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
> > Unless I've done something wrong, a note in future
> > > READMEs should point out incompatibilities between distributions.
> >
> >
>
> > Have you check the encodings your XML files declare AND use ?
>
>
> An interesting theory -- but why would they work with 1.7.0pre0 but not
> 1.7.0b?

It's not a theory, it's a question. I've had numerous forum post
leading to mismatch between the XML header and the actual encoding, so
allow me the question.

It is a good question.  I recently discovered that Java does not correctly deal with BOM in UTF-8-based files.
This is a very interesting thread on that subject:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4508058

My current solution has been to start from the new  .xml files in the 1.7.0b distribution and so far that has  restored functionality. 

> And an error on my part, it's etc/worklist/passwd.xml that was problematic.
> I'm using a combination of uman and vi or emacs to do the configuration
> editing for both.

I think that now I understand : since OpenWFE 1.7.0preX (where X > 0),
jars are divided among regulars jars (jars/*.jar) that have all
permissions, and restricted jars (jars/restricted/*.jar) that have
only the permissions given by their component policy file and their
passwd.xml.

That's useful to know, thanks.

>  I was indirectly volunteering to be a guinea pig for new stuff before it
> was distributed at large.   It doesn't matter to me who does the testing,
> but it might prevent some of the issues discovered lately.  I thought it
> might just save other people some pain.

Tony, please understand that it's open source software and that I do
it apart from my regular job. I'm sorry if you lost time, but I have
to say that it's difficult for me to understand the tone of your
emails... I'm not a supplier.

I understand.  I tried to keep the tone constructive, but obviously that didn't happen.
Open source efforts vary in their 'corporate backing'.  My thinking was to volunteer a little time to be a tester for one or two different platforms.   I know it's tough for a small effort to test on the major ~4 platforms adequately.

best,
Tony

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