+1
--- "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I cc'd to this list, the 1.0 versions of the
> beanutils, collections,
> and digester packages have been released under the
> Commons project. Now
> that these are official 1.0 releases, I propose to
> modify the Struts 1.1
> environment to depend on these packages, instead of
> the internal Struts
> versions (which have generally been deprecated).
>
> This will involve the following steps:
>
> * Modify the build environment to depend on these
> three packages
>
> * Modify internal Struts classes that rely on these
> packages to use
> the commons packages instead (normally just a
> change to the "import"
> statement).
>
> * Remove the internal versions of these classes.
>
> * Include these three packages in the Struts
> distribution (including
> inside the WAR files for each of the Struts web
> apps.
>
> * Modifying the appropriate documentation to mention
> the fact that these
> JARs, along with "struts.jar", must be included in
> the /WEB-INF/lib
> directory of Struts-based web applications.
>
> Making these changes will allow Struts itself to
> remain focused on the
> framework and custom tag libraries, while also
> benefitting from
> improvements in these three packages made by other
> projects that utilize
> them. (In the future, we'll probably do the same
> thing with the generic
> connection pool).
>
> Is everybody OK with doing this?
>
> Craig
>
>
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