Struts is definitely due to release 1.1 very soon. I've been using nightly builds for the last year - all very stable. There was a vote posted to the struts-dev mailing list tonight on releasing 1.1b3 as 1.1RC1 and it looks like it will pass. According to the committers, I'd expect an RC2 (with bug fixes only) in early February and a final release at the end of February. Luckily, all my clients have been confident in me and have not cared what version of Struts I was using - just that it worked. When I've found problems, I've patched them - good ol' open source. I haven't found any issues in quite some time - and when I have, the committers usually fix them the same day. Gotta love that kind of customer service. Show me a company that can do that with commercial software and I'll be impressed.
Looking at this list of features that GeekBlog plans to add - I can't help but smile. I especially like the following:
Allow posting entries via EMail from weblogauthor
The best part - it's open source, so we *should* be able to copy the feature into Roller. At least I hope so. Since GeekBlog and Roller are both Java-based apps, and both are open-source, it sure would be cool to copy/borrow features from each other to make two very robuts weblogging apps.
Wooo hooo!! I made Russ's Daily Must Reads list! I must be doing something right, eh? Thanks Russ - much appreciated.
Hopefully one of you java-bloggers has seen this before and can assist. I've already sent this to tomcat-users, but since this blog seems to be more google-friendly than mailing lists - I like to post problems/solutions here. Hope you don't mind.
I am using Tomcat's JDBCRealm as well as a DBCP Connection pool. I am connecting to Oracle 9, and everything works fine - for about 24 hours. I've experienced this with MySQL and adding autoReconnect=true to the connectionURL fixed the problem. However, adding this to Oracle's connectionURL causes a "Cannot load JDBC driver class 'null'". My connectionURL is:
jdbc:oracle:thin:username/password@host:1521:sid
Julie and I are going to look at stereos for the new rig this afternoon. I've always had a nice stereo in my car, and she wants to get rid of the big speakers I have - too much trunk space. So I've agreed to put buy a whole new system (aww shucks), and we're also thinking about getting XM Radio. A friend of mine also recommended SIRIUS. Has anyone experienced either of these? Supposedly, you can get an XM Radio plug-in for your existing car stereo for around $200. Why am I so enthralled in music and good car stereos?
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
