Raible Designs

Bug in Ant 1.5.2?

I found out the hard way that there might be a bug in Ant 1.5.2. I'm running the following task as part of appfuse - and it generates a appfuse.zip file, and it's the correct size, but there's nothing in it. I reverted back to Ant 1.5.1 and everything worked fine.

<zip zipfile="${archive.target}.zip">
    <zipfileset prefix="${webapp.name}" dir="${basedir}">
        <patternset id="srcfiles">
            <include name="**"/>           
            <exclude name="build.properties"/>
            <exclude name="database.properties"/>    
            <exclude name="*.log"/>
            <exclude name="*/**.java.txt"/>
            <exclude name="${dist.dir}/**"/>
            <exclude name="${build.dir}/**"/>
        </patternset>
    </zipfileset>
</zip>

This particular problem happened with Cygwin on Windows 2000 using JDK 1.4.1_01.

String Tag Library 1.0.1

Jakarta's String Tag Library version 1.0.1 was released about a month ago. I found out today. I'm telling you here because you might be able to use it if you need to manipulate Strings for your UI. The only tag I'm using (from this library) <s:replace>, which can be very handy indeed. For instance, a common task with JSPs is the need to replace a new-line (\n) with an HTML new-line (<br />). With the String TL, it's easy (JSP 2.0 Syntax):

<s:replace replace="NL" with="&lt;br /&gt;NL" 
    newlineToken="NL">${myForm.text}</s:replace>

Struts FAQs

Every Struts Developer should probably read Sciosorks Struts FAQ. Good stuff there. Bookmark it and use it.

I rode my bike into work for the first time this year. I got lost, so it took me 20 minutes longer than it should have. Door-to-door: 1:45. I wonder how long it'll take me to get home tonight.