[appfuse-user] side effects with struts-plugins in m5

[Travers Snyman]

I had a number of side effect issues while integrating the struts
plugins jfreechart and jasperreports in Apffuse 2 m5 with basic struts
archtype. These included freemarker template errors, validation problems
when persisting data in simple CRUD operations and numerous conflicts
with opensymphony Xwork. These are all solved when setting the scope in
the dependency to "runtime" instead of "compile" . I now have a very
clean integration of Jfreecharts and Jasperreports in my Appfuse
application and it works really well. For reference, here are the
dependencies for these plugins in the pom.xml

 

      <dependency>

            <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>

            <artifactId>struts2-jfreechart-plugin</artifactId>

            <version>2.0.8</version>

         <scope>runtime</scope>

      </dependency>

      <dependency>

            <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>

            <artifactId>struts2-jasperreports-plugin</artifactId>

            <version>2.0.8</version>

            <scope>runtime</scope>

       </dependency>

      <dependency>

            <groupId>jasperreports</groupId>

            <artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>

            <version>1.3.4</version>

            <scope>compile</scope>

                <exclusions>

                        <exclusion>

                                <groupId>eclipse</groupId>

                                <artifactId>jdtcore</artifactId>

                        </exclusion>

                </exclusions>

       </dependency>

       <dependency>

            <groupId>jfreechart</groupId>

            <artifactId>jfreechart</artifactId>

            <version>1.0.0</version>

         <scope>compile</scope>

       </dependency>

 

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