IntelliJ IDEA Free for Open Source Community

Please forgive this message if it's inappropriate. Apparently JetBrains is offering IntelliJ IDEA for free to those in the open source community. I know that at least a few of you are big IDEA fans - this might be worth looking into for the Struts contributors...

Re: [validator-plugin] MASK_VALIDATOR

Hi Matthias, I believe that the ^ and $ in a regular expression pattern are used to symbolize the start and end of the evaluated string. Thus: ^a means the string must begin with an a, a$ means the string must end with an a. Struts may handle regex differently, but if you remove them, it will o