RE: [logging] parent-first classloaders

2005-03-10 Thread Sharples, Colin
I don't know much about classloaders, but I was working with the WebSphere administration console today and I noticed a drop down for choosing parent-first or child-first classloaders. There's quite a good description of WebSphere's classloader policies at: http://tinyurl.com/6l98v Also

RE: Http Client- How to send and recieve Serialized Object using Http Client

2005-02-07 Thread Sharples, Colin
Assuming it's not just because of the typo in the content type (should be application/octet-stream), you could try base 64 encoding the object output stream, and then you can just use text/plain content type. On the other end you base 64 decode the response body before passing it to the object

RE: [digester] initial code for Digester2.0

2005-02-02 Thread Sharples, Colin
My major concern is that if we are going to warn people not to implement the Action interface, then what really is the point of providing it in the first place? As I said above, I just cannot think of any situation where a class would want to be an Action *and* extend some other class.

RE: [digester] initial code for Digester2.0

2005-02-01 Thread Sharples, Colin
- Why is Action an abstract class? So that we can later add new functionality to Action without breaking custom Action subclasses that users have written. As long as we can provide a suitable default implementation in the Action abstract class, everything runs smoothly. One example is

RE: AW: AW: AW: [proposal] avoiding jar version nightmares

2004-12-21 Thread Sharples, Colin
And, in my experience watching work done with tools like Gump, any time people do weird trickery with package names, like Sun renaming some packages from x.y.z to com.sun.x.y.z, this inevitably seems to cause lots of problems somewhere down the line. Exactly. Remember the howls of

RE: AW: AW: AW: [proposal] avoiding jar version nightmares

2004-12-21 Thread Sharples, Colin
I do not think you can compare JDK APIs to commons APIs as you hardly have more than one version of JDK API in your classpath ;) You mean you've never written an RMI app where the client and server were running different JVM levels? ;-) Colin Sharples IBM Advisory IT Specialist Email: [EMAIL

RE: Migrate to SVN?

2004-11-29 Thread Sharples, Colin
I doubt Eclipse will ever have built-in svn support because there are several third party plugins available. Since adding a plugin update site is so trivial in Eclipse I wouldn't think this would be a big deal. The plugin I use with Struts svn is http://subclipse.tigris.org/. It works

RE: [workflow] new contributor

2004-07-15 Thread Sharples, Colin
I'm going to make Colin happy :-), and go through his outstanding patches this evening (Pacific time in the US), applying what I can. :-)) Thanks, Craig. My project has its first release in a couple of weeks, so after that I will start to take a look at harvesting out re-usable stuff and

RE: [workflow] new contributor

2004-07-14 Thread Sharples, Colin
I have used commons-workflow on a couple of projects - using it right now in fact. I'm using it for two purposes which are I think a little beyond the original scope: 1) As a lightweight RPC mechanism, to locate and run server activities from any arbitrary client (e.g. struts action, browser

RE: [workflow] outstanding bugs

2004-05-26 Thread Sharples, Colin
i'd probably be willing to take a look at the patches once things are a little less hectic (which the way things have been going might be quite a long while) but i suspect that the best plan would be wait until after java one when craig is going to have some more time. Thanks, Robert, I

RE: [workflow] outstanding bugs

2004-05-25 Thread Sharples, Colin
Well, if no-one else wants to do it, how do I get committer rights so that I can do it? ;-) -Original Message- From: Sharples, Colin Sent: Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:31 a.m. To: Commons-Dev (E-mail) Subject: [workflow] outstanding bugs Hi, I have a few bugs outstanding

[workflow] outstanding bugs

2004-05-12 Thread Sharples, Colin
Hi, I have a few bugs outstanding on the Workflow component that I would quite like to see fixed - I have supplied patches. Craig is a very busy person, so I don't know if he has time to look at those. Is there anyone else who can take a look at them and apply the patches? The bug numbers are:

Workflow status

2004-02-11 Thread Sharples, Colin
I've been off the list for a while, but I've started a new project on which I'm using the workflow component. Has anything been happening on that lately? The CVS repository looks pretty quiet. I have a couple of patches I'd like to submit - should I put them into bugzilla or send them to the