craigmcc 00/10/31 16:39:32
Modified: . RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-M4.txt
Log:
Bring the release notes for milestone 4 up to date with respect to changes
made so far.
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--- RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-M4.txt 2000/10/19 00:57:59 1.1
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Release Notes
=============
-$Id: RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-M4.txt,v 1.1 2000/10/19 00:57:59 craigmcc Exp $
+$Id: RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-M4.txt,v 1.2 2000/11/01 00:39:32 craigmcc Exp $
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NEW FEATURES:
============
+All: Tomcat 4.0 now defaults to using the JAXP 1.1-ea XML parser, which
+includes SAX2 support (required by Jasper). In addition, the build scripts
+have been modified to let you conveniently select the XML parser you wish
+to use (must be JAXP-compliant) for:
+- Ant execution (i.e. the parser Ant uses to read build.xml files)
+- Catalina (the parser that is installed in $CATALINA_HOME/server) for
+ reading server.xml and web.xml files
+- Jasper (the parser that is installed in $CATALINA_HOME/lib) for
+ reading xxxxx.tld and web.xml files
+
+Catalina: The JDBCRealm implementation in Tomcat 4.0 has been updated to
+include features that were added to the Tomcat 3.x version, including:
+- Digested passwords (rather than plaintext)
+- The connectionName and connectionPassword properties for configuring
+ JDBC drivers that require them separate from the connection URL
+
+Servletapi: All of the changes that occurred in the Proposed Final Draft
+versions of the Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specifications are present.
+
+Webapps: Updated the example filters to use the revised filter syntax.
+
+Catalina: Support the new ServletContext.getResourcePaths() method, which
+returns the set of resource paths visible within this web application.
+
+Catalina: Process the <display-name> configuration element in web.xml, and
+return any value set there via the new ServletContext.getServletContextName()
+method.
+
+Catalina: Re-implemented support for filters to reflect the revisions in
+Servlet 2.3 PFD. Compared to the original model, the following changes
+are notable:
+- Single instance of a filter per filter definition (like servlets)
+- FilterChain objects represent the dynamic state of the handling
+ of a particular request
+- Filters are now initialized at application startup and finalized
+ at application shutdown (and also around context reloads)
+
+Jasper: Reflect the following changes in JSP 1.2 PFD:
+- PageInfo was renamed PageData
+- New signature for TagLibraryValidator.validate()
+
+Webapps: Add a commented-out invocation of a request dumper filter, which
+reports all request parameters to the servlet context log. This can be a very
+useful tool when debugging web-based requests.
+
+Jasper: Support the new "pageEncoding" attribute on the <%@ page %> directive.
+
+Catalina: Support the following changes to the deployment descriptor format
+per Servlet 2.3 PFD:
+- New <resource-env-ref> element
+- New <res-sharing-scope> subelement of the <resource-ref> element
+- Various documentation clarifications in the DTD itself
+
+Jasper: Support the new TLD elements that enable tag developers to avoid the
+need to write TagExtraInfo classes in many cases.
+
+Jasper: Reflect the revised element names for JSP 1.2 TLD elements. (As
+before, TLDs in the JSP 1.1 syntax are still accepted).
+
+Jasper: Support the new JSP 1.2 feature enabling translation time validation
+of the XML view of a JSP page by a custom tag library.
+
+Jasper: Support the new JSP 1.2 feature of hosting multiple TLDs (and
+therefore multiple custom tag libraries) in a single JAR file.
+
+Catalina: Enhance SSL client certificate support so that you can have multiple
+web applications configured, some that require client certificates and some
+that do not, communicating through the same SSL sockets.
+
=========
BUG FIXES:
=========
+Jasper: Better error message when an included file is not found.
+
+Jasper: Avoid NullPointerException when processing parameters for a forward
+or include, when no parameters are present.
+
+Catalina: When parsing parameters for a large POST request, only the first
+512 bytes were being processed. Now, they are all read.
+
+Catalina: Correct the manifest constants used to expose the SSL cipher suite
+and key size as request attributes.
+
+Catalina: Do not set a default content type of "text/plain".
+Catalina: When scanning for TLDs in JAR files (to register listeners), scan
+all TLD files under META-INF, not just META-INF/taglib.tld.
+Jasper: Accept the "jsp_precompile=" query parameter in conformance to the
+specification.
+
+
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KNOWN PROBLEMS IN THIS RELEASE:
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@@ -65,5 +152,11 @@
* Deploy from an unpacked directory (on the same server) instead of from
a WAR file (this is often more convenient in a development environment
anyway).
+
+
+Running Web Apps Under A Security Manager
+-----------------------------------------
+Support for running individual web applications under the protection of a
+security manager has not yet been completed.
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