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        <section name="Introduction" href="Introduction">

            <p>This document contains the release notes for
                <strong>Version 1.0-beta-3</strong>
                of the Struts Framework,
                and covers changes that have taken place since
                <a href="release-notes-1_0-b2.html">Version 1.0-beta-2</a>
                was released. The following sections cover
                <a href="#New">New Features</a>
                and
                <a href="#Changes">Changes</a>
                to Struts.
            </p>

        </section>


        <section name="What's Included?" href="Included">

            <p>The binary distribution of this release includes the following
                files relevant to Struts 1.0:</p>
            <ul>
                <li>
                    <code>INSTALL</code>
                    - Brief installation instructions. See
                    the
                    <code>Struts Documentation Application</code>
                    , or online at
                    <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/">
                        http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/</a>
                    for more information.
                </li>
                <li>
                    <code>LICENSE</code>
                    - The Apache Software Foundation license that
                    defines the terms under which you can use Struts (and
                    other software
                    licensed by Apache).
                </li>
                <li>
                    <code>README</code>
                    - A brief introduction to Struts.
                </li>
                <li>
                    <code>lib/</code>
                    - Directory containing files you will need in
                    your own applications. The individual files of interest
                    are:
                    <ul>
                        <li>
                            <code>struts.jar</code>
                            - JAR file that contains the compiled
                            Java classes for both version 0.5 and 1.0 of
                            Struts. You must
                            place this file in the
                            <code>/WEB-INF/lib</code>
                            directory of
                            your web application.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <code>struts-xxxxx.tld</code>
                            - The tag library descriptor files
                            for the Struts 1.0 tag libraries (bean, html,
                            logic, and
                            template). You must place these files in the
                            <code>/WEB-INF</code>
                            directory of your web application, and reference
                            them with
                            appropriate
                            <code>&lt;taglib&gt;</code>
                            directives in your
                            web.xml file.
                            <strong>NOTE</strong>
                            - The struts-form.tld
                            file is deprecated; you should use the
                            struts-html.tld file
                            instead.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <code>jdbc2_0-stdext.jar</code>
                            - The JDBC 2.0 Optional Package
                            API classes (package
                            <code>javax.sql</code>
                            ). You will need to
                            include this file in the
                            <code>/WEB-INF/lib</code>
                            directory
                            of your application, if it is not already made
                            visible to web
                            applications by your servlet container.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <code>struts-config_1_0.dtd</code>
                            - The document type descriptor
                            (DTD) for the Struts configuration file (which is
                            typically named
                            <code>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</code>
                            . Your configuration file
                            will be validated against an internal copy of this
                            DTD -- this
                            copy is available for reference purposes only.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <code>web-app_2_2.dtd</code>
                            - The document type descriptor (DTD)
                            for web.xml files conforming to the Servlet 2.2
                            specification.
                            This copy is for reference purposes only.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <code>web-app_2_3.dtd</code>
                            - The document type descriptor (DTD)
                            for web.xml files conforming to the Servlet 2.3
                            specification.
                            This copy is for reference purposes only.
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li>
                    <code>webapps/</code>
                    - Web Application Archive (WAR) files for the
                    web applications that are included with Struts.
                </li>
            </ul>

            <p>For backwards compatibility only, the binary distribution also
                includes the following files that conform to the Struts 0.5
                milestone
                release APIs. Usage of these files and APIs is deprecated, and
                they
                will be removed from releases after Struts 1.0:</p>
            <ul>
                <li>
                    <code>lib/</code>
                    - Directory containing files you will need in
                    your own applications. The individual files of interest
                    are:
                    <ul>
                        <li>
                            <code>struts.jar</code>
                            - JAR file that contains the compiled
                            Java classes for both version 0.5 and 1.0 of
                            Struts. You must
                            place this file in the
                            <code>/WEB-INF/lib</code>
                            directory of
                            your web application.
                        </li>
                        <li>
                            <code>struts.tld</code>
                            - The tag library descriptor file for
                            the 0.5 version of the Struts tags. You must place
                            this file
                            in the
                            <code>/WEB-INF</code>
                            directory of your web application,
                            and reference it with appropriate
                            <code>&lt;taglib&gt;</code>
                            directives in your web.xml file.
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
            </ul>

        </section>


        <section name="What's New?" href="New">

            <p>
                <strong>DEPRECATIONS</strong>
                - The entire custom tag library
                that is documented in
                <code>struts.tld</code>
                has been deprecated.
                These tags correspond to the Struts 0.5 functionality that is
                also
                deprecated, and have been replaced (and considerably enhanced)
                in
                the various individual tag libraries.
            </p>

            <p>
                <strong>DEPRECATIONS</strong>
                - The entire custom tag library
                that is documented in
                <code>struts-form.tld</code>
                has been deprecated
                because this library has been renamed
                <code>struts-html.tld</code>
                instead.
            </p>

            <p>
                <strong>DEPRECATIONS</strong>
                - Several classes in the
                <code>org.apache.struts.util</code>
                package have been marked as
                deprecated in their entirety, because they will be replaced by
                versions from the Jakarta Commons project once those packages
                are
                released. These deprecated classes will
                <strong>not</strong>
                be
                removed until a release after Struts 1.1. In general, the only
                change required inside user code using these classes will be
                to
                update the
                <code>import</code>
                statement. The following classes
                are involved:
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li>ArrayStack</li>
                <li>BeanUtils</li>
                <li>ConvertUtils</li>
                <li>FastArrayList</li>
                <li>FastHashMap</li>
                <li>FastTreeMap</li>
                <li>GenericConnection</li>
                <li>GenericDataSource</li>
                <li>PropertyUtils</li>
            </ul>

            <p>The following new features have been added to the basic
                controller
                framework (package
                <code>org.apache.struts.action</code>
                ):
            </p>

            <p>The following new features have been added to the utility
                classes
                (package
                <code>org.apache.struts.util</code>
                ):
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li>
                    <code>GenericDataSource</code>
                    can now be configured with a "ping"
                    type command (via the
                    <code>pingCommand</code>
                    and
                    <code>pingQuery</code>
                    properties) that will be executed before
                    returning a connection from
                    <code>getConnection()</code>
                    . This
                    can be used to detect stale connections due to timeouts or
                    a
                    database server restart. If the ping command fails, the
                    corresponding
                    connection will be thrown away, and a new one allocated.
                </li>
            </ul>


            <p>The following new features have been added to the
                <em>struts-html</em>
                custom tag library (package
                <code>org.apache.struts.taglib.html</code>
                ):
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li>It is now possible to use any object in the values and
                    labels
                    collections for the
                    <code>&lt;html:options&gt;</code>
                    tag.
                </li>
                <li>Added the missing
                    <code>tabindex</code>
                    attribute to the
                    <code>&lt;html:radio&gt;</code>
                    tag.
                </li>
                <li>On the
                    <code>&lt;html:img&gt;</code>
                    ,
                    <code>&lt;html:link&gt;</code>
                    ,
                    and
                    <code>&lt;html:rewrite&gt;</code>
                    tags, you can now specify
                    arbitrary object values in the
                    <code>Map</code>
                    used to include
                    dynamic request attributes, as long as the
                    <code>toString()</code>
                    method renders the values appropriately.
                </li>
                <li>In all cases where "minimized" attributes were being
                    generated
                    (
                    <code>checked</code>
                    ,
                    <code>disabled</code>
                    ,
                    <code>multiple</code>
                    ,
                    <code>readonly</code>
                    , and
                    <code>selected</code>
                    ), the generated
                    attribute has a value (such as
                    <code>selected="true"</code>
                    ) for
                    XML syntax compatibility.
                </li>
            </ul>

            <p>The following new features have been added to the
                <em>struts-logic</em>
                custom tag library (package
                <code>org.apache.struts.taglib.logic</code>
                ):
            </p>

            <p>The following new features have been added to the
                <em>struts-template</em>
                custom tag library (package
                <code>org.apache.struts.taglib.template</code>
                ):
            </p>

            <p>The following new features have been added to the Struts
                Documentation
                application (and corresponding contents on the Struts web
                site):</p>


        </section>


        <section name="Changes and Bug Fixes" href="Changes">

            <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the
                configuration
                files related to Struts:</p>
            <ul>
                <li>The DTD for
                    <code>struts-config.xml</code>
                    files had an incorrect
                    ENTITY declaration for the
                    <code>Location</code>
                    element.
                </li>
                <li>The DTD for version 2.3 web application deployment
                    descriptors has
                    been updated to the most recent (Proposed Final Draft 2)
                    version.</li>
            </ul>

            <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the basic
                controller framework (package
                <code>org.apache.struts.action</code>
                ):
            </p>


            <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the
                utilities
                (package
                <code>org.apache.struts.util</code>
                ):
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li>The
                    <code>FastArrayMap()</code>
                    ,
                    <code>FastHashMap()</code>
                    , and
                    <code>FastTreeMap()</code>
                    classes not correctly implement the
                    <code>clone()</code>
                    ,
                    <code>equals()</code>
                    , and
                    <code>hashCode()</code>
                    methods consistent with the requirements
                    of the Java standard Collections APIs.
                </li>
                <li>
                    <code>PropertyUtils</code>
                    can now access public methods defined
                    in nested interfaces.
                </li>
                <li>A misleading error message returned by
                    <code>BeanUtils</code>
                    has been corrected.
                </li>
                <li>Work around a problem compiling the
                    <code>FastXxxxx</code>
                    classes
                    with the VAJ compiler, because the superclass already
                    includes a
                    private class named
                    <code>Iterator</code>
                    .
                </li>
                <li>Remove a JDK 1.3 dependency that prevented compiling
                    <code>BeanUtils</code>
                    under JDK 1.2.
                </li>
                <li>Generate "&amp;amp;" instead of "&amp;" in query strings
                    that
                    contain more than one name/value pair.</li>
            </ul>

            <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the
                <em>struts-html</em>
                custom tag library (package
                <code>org.apache.struts.taglib.html</code>
                ):
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li>Restore the ability of the
                    <code>&lt;html:button&gt;</code>
                    tag to
                    retrieve the button text from the nested body content (so
                    that it
                    can be easily internationalized).
                </li>
                <li>If the property name used in the
                    <code>labelProperty</code>
                    attribute of an
                    <code>&lt;html:options&gt;</code>
                    tag is invalid,
                    report the correct property name in the error message.
                </li>
            </ul>

            <p>The following changes and bug fixes have occurred in the
                <em>struts-logic</em>
                custom tag library (package
                <code>org.apache.struts.taglib.logic</code>
                ):
            </p>


            <p>The following changes and bug fixes to the Struts Documentation
                application (and corresponding contents on the Struts web
                site) have
                occurred:</p>
            <ul>
                <li>Fix a reference to an old Struts 0.5 tag in one of the
                    User's Guide
                    examples.</li>
                <li>Fix the stylesheet used to transform XML into HTML
                    documentation so
                    that nested
                    <code>&lt;body&gt;</code>
                    tags are not created.
                </li>
                <li>The DTD for Struts configuration files has been refined to
                    highlight
                    the fact that you should use
                    <code>&lt;set-property&gt;</code>
                    elements to configure your data source implementation.
                </li>
            </ul>

            <p>The following changes and bug fixes to the Struts Example
                Application
                have occurred:</p>


            <p>The following changes and bug fixes to the Struts Template
                Example
                Application have occurred:</p>


        </section>


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