Frankly, since these seem to be problems in the tests and demo applications, rather than in the base code, I'd be -1 on this. Going to a beta 5 seems to me to be a unnecessary step unless the problem is in the actual core libraries themselves.
James > -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 6:14 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: [VOTE] Convert RC2 to Beta 5 > > > In final testing of RC2, some compatibility issues have been found > between Tomcat 3.3.1 and the struts-exercise-taglib > application as well > as the tiles-documentation application. > > Martin Cooper has been looking into the problems and has > found that for > the struts-exercise-taglibs cookie test, it is the > > <jsp:getProperty name="sess" property="name"/> > > expression that is failing. > > The <jsp:getProperty> tags earlier on the page succeeded. The > only difference seems to be that the earlier ones all have > setters as well as > getters in the Tomcat CookieFacade class, whereas there is > only a getter > for 'name'. So this actually looks like some kind of > JSP/reflection bug, > not related to Struts. (The <bean:cookie> tag must have > worked, because > we know the <jsp:getProperty> tag is trying to access a cookie!) > > Also, the (rather complex) comparison test is killing the JVM > when run > under TC3. > > In the Tiles application, servlet exceptions are being noted. One > example is the extendedDefinitionTag page, but there may be others. > > Unless fixes to these problems are immediately forthcoming, I propose > that we document the issues and release Stuts 1.1 beta 5. > > By getting this milestone out to the community, we would have > a better > chance of resolving the remaining issues so that we can go to Struts > 1.1. final as soon as possible > > This proposal has my +1. > > -Ted. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
