Re: Which Struts Version To Use?

2017-09-19 Thread David Greene
Just from my personal experience, migrating from 2.3.x to 2.5.x was a very small development task. I was actually surprised at how few changes were required. As someone else mentioned, a little bit of regex to weed out the now-unused tag arguments was probably the 'hardest' part. I would

Re: Which Struts Version To Use?

2017-09-19 Thread Yasser Zamani
I'm sorry for duplicate mails. Microsoft's outlook services was down yesterday! while I thought there is a problem with me :) Bruce, I had experience with migrating from 2.3 to 2.5. Its time commitment is not high. I did a few small steps manually but for rest, I could do them by a regular

Re: Which Struts Version To Use?

2017-09-19 Thread Lukasz Lenart
Bruce Struts 2.5.x is not only due to build on JDK7, also there were few important architectural changes which may be backward incompatible in some cases. Also 2.5.x brings more new features and improvements that also at some point can break backward comaptibility. 2.5.x is a good choice when you

Re: Which Struts Version To Use?

2017-09-18 Thread bruceaphill...@gmail.com
Thank you for the reply. I still don't understand why there are two active branches, especially since JDK7 was EOL some time ago. If the 2.3.X line is going to be ended soon and the 2.5.X line is the future then I'd like to get our Struts apps on 2.5.X But if 2.3.X is going to be maintained

Re: Which Struts Version To Use?

2017-09-18 Thread Yasser Zamani
On 9/18/2017 7:35 PM, Phillips, Bruce A wrote: > We still have a couple of web apps that are using Struts version 2.3.32 > > We want to update those web apps to the latest version of Struts but I’m not > sure what version to update to. > > I see a 2.5.13 and a 2.3.34 – both tags seem to be

Re: Which Struts Version To Use?

2017-09-18 Thread Yasser Zamani
On 9/18/2017 7:35 PM, Phillips, Bruce A wrote: > We still have a couple of web apps that are using Struts version 2.3.32 > > We want to update those web apps to the latest version of Struts but I’m not > sure what version to update to. > > I see a 2.5.13 and a 2.3.34 – both tags seem to be

Re: Which Struts Version To Use?

2017-09-18 Thread Yasser Zamani
On 9/18/2017 7:35 PM, Phillips, Bruce A wrote: > We still have a couple of web apps that are using Struts version 2.3.32 > > We want to update those web apps to the latest version of Struts but I’m not > sure what version to update to. > > I see a 2.5.13 and a 2.3.34 – both tags seem to be

Re: Which Struts Version To Use?

2017-09-18 Thread Jason D. Burkert
On 2017-09-18 11:05 AM, Phillips, Bruce A wrote: We still have a couple of web apps that are using Struts version 2.3.32 We want to update those web apps to the latest version of Struts but I’m not sure what version to update to. I see a 2.5.13 and a 2.3.34 – both tags seem to be recently