Ted,
Looks good. I'd like to see a little more "visibility" for the
internationalization capabilities in Struts, though. In my experience,
that's something that catches peoples' attention, because they know they'll
have to do it one day, and knowing that the framework comes with built in
support is a big plus. Perhaps you could add a fourth bullet that says
something about how the content of a page can be obtained from resources
based on the user's locale, or something like that.
One other minor point: independant --> independent
--
Martin Cooper
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Husted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts 1.0 (Final) Released
> I put together something in a press release format to distribute to my
> local Java Users Group, et cetera.
>
> Comments?
>
> --
>
> (June 15, 2001) The production release of Struts 1.0, an open source
> framework for building Web applications, is now available for download
> at jakarta.apache.org. Struts encourages application architectures based
> on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and provides services common
> to most Web applications. Struts helps developers deploy products that
> are reliable, scaleable, and easier to maintain.
>
> The Struts framework offers services in three primary areas:
>
> * A controller servlet to dispatch requests to specific Action classes
> (provided by the application developer).
>
> * JSP custom tags to help developers create interactive form-based
> applications.
>
> * Utility classes for XML parsing, automatic JavaBean population, and
> internationalization of prompts and messages.
>
> In addition to the Struts official distribution, several third-party
> libraries are already available, which offer enhanced support for JSP
> templates, HTML form validation, and automatic JavaBean creation. Struts
> has also been integrated with the Expresso Framework distributed by
> JCorporate Ltd. (jcorporate.com).
>
> Struts can be used with a J2EE Application server to deploy distributed
> applications, but will run under any compliant Servlet container
> (Servlet API 2.2+, JSP 1.1+), including Tomcat 3.2 or later. In fact,
> Struts is already used as an informal compliance test for Java Servlet
> containers and J2EE Application servers.
>
> The Struts project was founded in May 2000 by Craig McClanahan.
> McClanahan is also the lead developer of Tomcat 4.0, Sun's reference
> implementation for Java Servlet and ServerPage containers. Both Tomcat
> and Struts are open source available under the Apache Software License,
> and may be downloaded at jakarta.apache.org.
>
> Twenty-six independant developers contributed to the creation of Struts
> 1.0, with the help of over a thousand subscribers to the Struts mailing
> lists.
>
> ###
