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<author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Craig McClanahan</author>
<author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Martin Cooper</author>
<author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Husted</author>
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+ <author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Joe Germuska</author>
<title>New and Status - Jakarta Struts</title>
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</p>
<p>
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-struts/release/v1.1-b1/";>Struts
1.1b</a> is in its first <b>beta release</b> (19 March 2002).
+A second beta is anticipated in mid-July.
</p>
<hr size="1" noshade=""/>
<ul>
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<section name="News">
+<h3><a name="20020629"></a>29 June 2002 - Struts Newsletter</h3>
+<p>
+<b>Path-based action mapping in 1.1</b><br/>
+One of the architectural advances from Struts 1.0 to Struts 1.1 involved
+supporting multiple applications with a single Struts controller
+servlet. As part of the initial implementation of this functionality,
+some configuration flexibility was lost: the multi-application
+controller only supports mapping URLs to Struts "actions" by extension
+(i.e. "*.do") while Struts 1.0 also supported mapping by path prefix
+(i.e. "/do/*"). After James Young asked if any fixes were in the works
+[1], Craig McClanahan pointed out some of the complexities involved
+[2]. Ted Husted described a possible solution and asked for feedback
+about whether to pursue it. [3]</p>
+<p>
+[1] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8226";>dev
#8226</a>
+[2] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8234";>dev
#8234</a>
+[3] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8244";>dev
#8244</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>Tiles add-in to moved to core</b><br/>
+Craig McClanahan moved the "Tiles" add-in into the core CVS source tree
+from the "contrib" directory.[4] Ted Husted initiated a discussion about
+some code modifications to "Tiles" to make it work more closely with the
+core code base.[5]</p>
+<p>
+[4] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8682";>dev
#8682</a>
+[5] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8621";>dev
#8621</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>FormBean: Interface or Class?</b><br/>
+The discussion about whether the "FormBean" concept was best implemented
+as an interface or a class resurfaced, and Craig McClanahan wrote a
+decisive response explaining the motivation for maintaining it as a
+class.[6] In summary, designing FormBean as an interface would
+facilitate inappropriate tangling of the "model" layer with the "view"
+layer, while making it a class of its own encourages clean separation of
+those layers.</p>
+<p>
+[6] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8253";>dev
#8253</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>Struts and the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL)</b><br/>
+After announcing the 1.0 release of the JSTL, Shawn Bayern offered
+assistance towards integrating the rich Struts tag libraries with the
+JSTL, which in many cases offers equivalent functionality.[7] Craig
+McClanahan indicated that a likely goal for a post 1.1 release of Struts
+would be thorough integration with the JSTL expression language, and
+aiming towards an eventual replacement of the Struts "bean" and "logic"
+tag libraries with the equivalent tags from JSTL.[8]</p>
+<p>
+[7] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8434";>dev
#8434</a>
+[8] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8439";>dev
#8439</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>New Committer: James Holmes</b><br/>
+James Holmes, author of the popular Struts Console tool, was proposed as
+a committer by Ted Husted [9] and was accepted unanimously.
+</p>
+<p>
+[9] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8341";>dev
#8341</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>Steps towards Struts 1.1b2</b><br/>
+As much of the activity on the list in June involved "swatting" bugs in
+the current 1.1b1 release, Craig McClanahan proposed steps towards a
+Struts 1.1b2 by around July 8th[10] The requirements for the next beta
+are basically closing any remaining bugs and improving documentation of
+new Struts features. Committers responded promptly with +1 votes and
+further contributions.
+</p>
+<p>
+[10] <a
href="http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8691";>dev
#8691</a>
+</p>
+<hr size="1" noshade=""/>
+
<h3><a name="20020623.1"></a>23 June 2002 - Struts Controller UML Diagrams</h3>
<p>
The goal of this article is to illustrate the Struts 1.1 Controller with UML
diagrams. This article is an introduction to the Struts framework in order to help
beginners programmers to understand the MVC model 2.
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<p>
<a
href="http://rollerjm.free.fr/pro/Struts.html";>http://rollerjm.free.fr/pro/Struts.html</a>
</p>
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