Sorry for the unjustified criticism. It is going to be difficult for people to get the correct jar, as it is not a link on the Tiles site. I had to guess that the 2.0.3 download url was a mod of the 2.0.4 url, and fortunately, it was. - rc
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Al Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <user@struts.apache.org> > Subject: RE: Struts 2.0.8 upgrade question > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:34:00 +0100 > > > Ray, > > The tiles-jsp jar was an addition between the tiles release in S2.0.6 and > Tile 2.0.3, the packaging script therefore didn't include it and I only > raised it after I was testing 2.0.8 when the call for a vote on 2.0.8 had > already gone out. It's been fixed for future releases, but by the time I > raised the issue 2.0.8 was already packaged and ready to roll. I'm pretty > sure the tests for Struts don't include any tiles jsp tests because, after > all, tiles is tested by the tiles group, and we don't want to have the > nightmare of developing tests for every library included in S2. > > Then there was a bit of bad luck was that the 2.0.4 release was made the day > after the 2.0.8 release was rolled, hence why 2.0.8 has Tiles 2.0.3 bundled. > > Hope this helps you understand why what happened was a little less than > insanity and more some unfortunate circumstances:). > > Al. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Clough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 June 2007 22:09 > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: RE: Struts 2.0.8 upgrade question > > > I got it to work with 2 steps. 1) I downloaded the 2.0.3 version of Tiles. > > Note that this requires knowing the download url, because the current Tiles > download page is for v2.0.4 only. The difference in the download url is > only the version number. 2) The Tiles DTD seems to have changed. The > 'put' tag is now 'put-attribute'. Of course, that is a Tiles issue, not a > Struts issue. > > As a commentary, omitting an important and required dependency from a > well-understood sister-project seems to argue some sort of insanity in the > Struts-2 release process. (you say that you had previously raised the > issue, yet they still failed to include it.) > > - Ray Clough > > > > > Al Sutton-4 wrote: > > > > Grab the distribution from tiles.apache.org and copy the jsp jar > > into your webapp. > > > > This is something I raised on the dev list and the jar will be > > part of future builds. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Ray Clough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: user@struts.apache.org > > Sent: 6/13/07 9:00 PM > > Subject: Re: Struts 2.0.8 upgrade question > > > > > > Nope. It seems pretty clear that something is missing. Here is the > > error: > > > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > > org.apache.tiles.jsp.context.JspTilesContextFactory > > > > For Tiles 2.0.4, that file is found in the file > > "tiles-jsp-2.0.4.jar. I don't know about Tiles 2.0.3 that is > > bundled with Struts-2.0.8, but 2.0.8 does not include a > > 'tiles-jsp-2.0.3.jar' file. > > > > - Ray Clough > > > > > > > > Al Sutton-4 wrote: > >> > >> Have you checked the old version of tiles has been removed?, the > >> version shipped with 2.0.6 was a pre-release of Tiles 2 and the > >> internal APIs changed, I had some problems until I realised my > >> appserver was caching the old tiles jars and the problems were > >> comming > from an API mismatch. > >> > >> Ray Clough wrote: > >>> It doesn't seem to be a straight forward upgrade from 2.0.6, at > >>> least so far as Tiles is concerned. We get a bunch of > >>> different exceptions, depending on what we try to do. Each fix > >>> seems to break something else, though. > >>> > >>> Advice? > >>> > >>> - Ray Clough > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://www.nabble.com/Struts-2.0.8-upgrade-question-tf3917170.html#a11 > > 107695 Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Struts-2.0.8-upgrade-question-tf3917170.html#a11109011 > Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Ray Clough [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
