We've been using the Tomcat 3.2 that is integrated with NetBeans to do our Struts development. Our test deployment server (AIX 4.3 with the IBM 1.2.2 JVM) is running a vanilla Tomcat3.2.1. Neither of these environments has any problem with the subject of this message.
Our pre-production server (AIX 4.3 with the IBM 1.2.2 JVM) is running Enhydra 3.1 and fails initialization due to the validation done by ActionServlet. We've tried forcing Xerces 1.2 in Enhydra, but Enhydra persists in it's attempt to validate using the network URL instead of the local resource.
I hacked ActionServlet.initDigester() to turn off validation and that got us by - but I know it's the wrong way to deal with this. In spite of the Barracuda project, I would hope that the Enhydra team would want to be completely Tomcat-compatible (which I think includes Struts compatibility). Still, it was easier to "fix" the ActionServlet than to fingure out why we are having this problem with Enhydra. I know, I know... I should have extended ActionServlet to override instead of butchering my clean Struts - but the question remains regarding why this seeming incompatibility exists.
Could somebody give me a clue?
- Lee
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