Doh! Sorry. Well at least I figured out what happens when one reports a bug...
Thanks to all who helped... Any ideas when the new release might be available? Geoff > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Magnus Rydin > Sent: Wednesday, 16 January, 2002 8:26 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: SV: IronFlare bug fixing policy > > > Hi Geoff, > > your bug report 695 seems to be a copy of bug 670 which has > already been fixed (not released though). > > WR > Magnus Rydin > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > > Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]För Geoff Soutter > > Skickat: den 16 januari 2002 07:06 > > Till: Orion-Interest > > Kopia: Orion Interest List > > Ämne: RE: IronFlare bug fixing policy > > > > > > Hi there EW, > > > > Thanks for the response. > > > > The one I've reported (so far) is 695 > > (http://bugzilla.orionserver.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=695). > > > > It doesn't include an .ear file or anything, but it seems to be it > > would be pretty trivial to track it down _if you had access to the > > source code_ - since I included the buggy portion of the generated > > wrapper it's clear to see where the bug is. > > > > In fact, I just did a search on the class files and I found > the likely > > location of the bug. It's probably in _ql.class, since it's > the only > > class which contains "response.iterator()" and it's this > line which is > > throwing the NullPointerException. Grrr - closed source > things annoy > > me!! > > > > So, seems like you're saying theres not much propect of bugs being > > fixed till the refactoring is over? Did they mention when this is > > likely to be? RSN I suppose :-) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Geoff > > > > BTW, seems like bugzilla is down at the moment? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: The elephantwalker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, 16 January, 2002 4:03 PM > > > To: Orion-Interest; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: IronFlare bug fixing policy > > > > > > > > > Geoff, > > > > > > Magnus Rydin told me that what they need are good > examples for each > > > bug so that they are absolutely reproducible. If you look > at some of > > > the bugs that are still open, these bugs don't have iron clad > > > examples that are reproducible. > > > > > > So each of these bugs needs to be cleared...which means Magnus R. > > > has to work on reproducing them (if they aren't immediately > > > reproducible), which of course takes time. > > > > > > What he didn't say but reported on the list is a major > refactoring > > > going on now in Orion to bring it into compliance with j2ee 1.3. > > > This includes EJB 2.0, Servlet 2.3 (not just the draft), and JSP > > > 1.2, Connections, etc. > > > > > > As we all know, fixing bugs which are going to disappear in a > > > refactoring is a bit of a waste of time. Of course, if its a bug > > > that affects you directly, you may feel differently. > > > > > > Which bug numbers did you report? > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > the elephantwalker > > > www.elephantwalker.com > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Geoff > > > Soutter > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 4:55 PM > > > To: Orion-Interest > > > Subject: IronFlare bug fixing policy > > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I reported a bug on BugZilla a few days back. It's reasonably > > > serious - basically the generated wrapper for the finder > method of > > > an EJB is throwing NullPointerException when the EJB throws an > > > exception, hiding the real cause of the problem. (And I > just found > > > another bug - ServletExceptions constructed with (string, > exception) > > > are reported without the String originally passed.) > > > > > > I haven't heard anything and the bug has not been touched > > > apparently. > > > > > > Does anyone know what IronFlare's policy is regards > fixing bugs? Do > > > they tend to fix them quickly, or are they likely to just > ignore bug > > > reports? > > > > > > > > > The reason I ask is that I'm happy to use something without much > > > support, but if they refuse to fix bugs then I think I'll have to > > > give up and try elsewhere... > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Geoff > > > > > > > > > >
