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Thursday December 18, 2003

Stop Tomcat from persisting sessions I can't seem to find the blog post about how to disable Session persistence for a given <Context>. Anyone got a link? Posted in Java at Dec 18 2003, 09:49:38 PM MST 2 Comments

[ANNOUNCE] Ant 1.6 Released! Big news baby - the best Java tool in the world has a new release. I don't know that I'll use any of the new features (such as antlib, macrodef, presetdef, ssh tasks), but I do love to upgrade. Downloading now...

Later: It looks like Canoo's WebTest is not compatible with Ant 1.6. Reverting back to 1.5.4.

C:\Source\appfuse\test\web\web-tests.xml:29: Task must be of type "Step": invoke at 
C:\Source\appfuse\test\web\login.xml:1:  is of type org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement

Line 29 is: <canoo name="login">. I've notified the webtest mailing list, hopefully there will be a resolution shortly. Posted in Java at Dec 18 2003, 08:17:01 PM MST 3 Comments

Interested in Java ISP Options I'm not exactly looking for a new ISP, but I am interested in exploring my options. I'm currently averaging about 10 GB of bandwidth usage per month, and it's unlikely to go down. I only pay around $50/month, so it's not bad, but I wouldn't mind some more RAM. I don't want to administer the server per say - I'd like backups and e-mail setup/config done for me. I don't think I want my own server b/c I don't want to be a sysadmin - I only want to worry about the Java server setup. Below is my ideal setup - please let me know if you think there's other things I should be looking for.

• Linux
• 512 MB RAM
• 1 GB disk space
• A Fat Pipe (100 MB+)
• 25-50 GB traffic
• Tomcat or Resin (Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 at a minimum)
• MySQL databases (2-5)

Posted in Java at Dec 18 2003, 02:09:30 PM MST 12 Comments

Struts 2.0 There's a flurry of e-mails about Struts 2.0 dancing around on the Struts Developers Mailing List. Looking at the Overview or the ReadMe, you can see that there's some major (revolutionary) changes being discussed. The Struts Bandwagon is alive and well. The proposal is called Jericho (since it tries to tear-down the walls within the Struts architecture) and proposes to open-up Struts by:

• Declaring interfaces for all core components.
• Providing working base implementations for all core components.
• Encapsulating alll path references within "Location" objects (fka ActionForwards) and referring only to Locations from all other objects.
• Providing additional extension points from core components so that the "Inversion of Control" pattern is fully realized. (e.g., a populate method for the FormHandler.)
• Providing "POJO" signatures that encapsulate servlet/portlet behavior so that applications can be freed of servlet/portlet semantics, if so desired. This strategy would also be applied to optional packages like Validator and Tiles.
• Retain optional access to servlet/portlet objects so that applications can be free to do whatever they need to do.

Also under consideration - adding Struts Menu to the core. Good stuff my friends, good stuff.

Also noticed on the mailing list - Tomcat is not the Servlet/JSP reference implementation (news to me):

There is a (mis)conception, for example, that Tomcat is the RI for the servlet and JSP APIs. That is not the case -- the official RI is the "J2EE SDK" available at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/download-dr.html. It happens to *include* code from Tomcat, but this is the real RI.

Posted in Java at Dec 18 2003, 11:24:32 AM MST 4 Comments