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by Marc Logemann.
Original Post: new Struts, new Tomcat, new everything?
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Today my RSS Reader spit out new versions of popular projects like Struts and Tomcat. I use both of them in many projects and was excited to see the massive enhancements, massive because Tomcat made quite a big version step and Struts released a version after a long time of nothing. So i read the release notes and qickly get dissapointed.
Lets get to Tomcat first. It now runs on JDK 1.5, ok, this is useful if you allready use 1.5 features, i dont do that yet, so no winner for me. Jasper now uses EclipseJDT for compiling JSP pages, which means i can get along without a JDK. This is indeed a neat feature, but will only bring some smiles to the faces of the deployer / admin guys. But i am wondering why the compiler will only be included in the binary versions, is there some kind of closed source issue or is it just for the sake of simplicity, because most people cant compile C sources? I dont know. The other changes are not too spectacular and i hope the 5.5 release will bring more than just J2SE 5.0 and Eclise Compiler stuff.
Struts 1.2.2 (why not 1.2 or 1.3. but 1.2.2?) seems to be a refactoring release, most of the stuff in the release notes seem deletions and movements of packages. But dont get me wrong, i like deleting things that are deprecated for ages, look at the Date() Nightmare to see what can happen if you dont delete things. I also appreciate the deletion of DataSources, i mean, who need a Generic Struts DataSource. If i need one, i will grab one of my DB vendor or DBCP if i need vendor neutral pooling. The Validator enhancements are also neat but why Maven is again creeping into a project puzzles me. It seems that i am the only one (despite of the bileblogger) who just dont like this project and their overall idea.
After all, i thought that after this long release cycle that there can be more discovered in Struts, but 1.1 was not so bad, so that it must be this way perhaps, but i am missing some real "new" features.
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