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StrutsTestCase 1.8 Released

I missed this one by a long shot (released 7.17.02), but I'll tell you anyway. StrutTestCase is a shortcut to using cactus to test your Struts Actions. Use it, it will descrease your development time.

I also am a little partial to this release since I helped Deryl get it working with LookupDispatchAction and Tiles. He did a great job in getting it all to work after I sent him the bugs. I had the easy job ;)

StrutsTestCase for JUnit - release 1.8
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This release introduces improved support for Struts 1.1,
provides several requested enhancements, and fixes many
reported defects.

The StrutsTestCase library is now available as four distinct
releases supporting both the 2.2 and 2.3 versions of the 
Servlet specification, and both the 1.0.x and 1.1 versions
of the Struts Framework.

The StrutsTestCase library supports Struts 1.1b1 and the
latest nightly builds, as well as Cactus v1.3 and JUnit
v3.7.

Roller Login Enhancement

I added an enhancement to roller today. Basically, it's a trick I learned with form-based authentication. Rather than having 2 different pages (one for the login, and one for the login failure), you use one page and specify a paramter, such as /login.jsp?error=true for the <form-error-page> value. This makes it easy to add a error message at the top with something like this:

<div class="error">
<logic:present parameter="error">
     <bean:message key="error.password.mismatch"/>
</logic:present>
</div>

Created new XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 compliant Theme

You're looking at it right now! Click on the W3C icons on the bottom right to verify compliance.

Roller installed successfully!

I finally got this application installed at my ISP (kgbinternet.com). As an FYI, here are the issues I experienced while installing.

1. I had to copy WEB-INF/lib/jaxrpc.jar to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib.
2. I was getting the following error on Linux/Tomcat 4.0.3:
   
   

   2002-07-31 13:28:12 ROLLER> PersistenceException getting database connection
   [org.exolab.castor.jdo.DatabaseNotFoundException: The JNDI
   name java:comp/env/jdbc/rollerdb does not map to a JDBC DataSource]
   

   ... and since I was able to reproduce this on WinXP/Tomcat 4.0.3, I upgraded to 4.0.4 at my ISP. BTW, they let ME do this - very cool ;-)
3. Then I was getting the following error:
   
   

   TyrexDataSourceFactory:  Cannot create DataSource, Exception
   java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hsql.jdbcDriver
   

   ... so I sent a message to the Keith at kgbinternet - a couple of hours ago - and I don't know if he did anything, but I'm posting on the working app as we speak!