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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is great news.

Big thanks to Murod and Lars for this - the reduction in startup time will
be highly appreciated by all our desktop users!

Knut

2009/8/20 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi,
>
> I have merged in Murod's work on the Struts2 upgrade. Thanks to Murod
> for good work on this!
>
>
> Additionally the dhis-support-webwork (struts) has been merged with
> dhis-web-commons as the code fit nicely here. (You can remvoe
> dhis-support-webwork from your IDE.)
>
> There are lots of good things about this:
>
> - The login time has gone from 21 sec to 1 sec.
>
> - We were allowed to remove the custom webwork configuration
> initialization code. Struts handles loading of config files from jars
> itself.
>
> - Struts2 has a lot of nice features, like support for validation,
> i18n, and direct submission of forms to domain objects which can
> improve our code potentially.
>
>
>
> For those interested in learning more I have uploaded Struts2 In
> Action here: http://folk.uio.no/larshelg/readings/Stuts2_In_Action.pdf
>
>
> I will have a go at the local modules too soon. Migration guide for
> web modules below.
>
> The Spring security upgrade needs some more work before being merged in.
>
>
> Lars
>
>
>
> - Rename xwork.xml to struts.xml, change root xml element tag from
> <xwork> to <struts> and change the DTD to:
>
> <!DOCTYPE xwork PUBLIC "-//OpenSymphony Group//XWork 1.0//EN"
>  "http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/xwork-1.0.dtd";>
>
> - In web.xml, replace the WebWork filter definition with
>
> <filter>
>    <filter-name>Struts</filter-name>
>
>  <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class>
>  </filter>
>
> and change the name of the filter mapping from WebWork to Struts.
>
> - In action classes, change all package names from
> "com.opensymphony.xwork" to "com.opensymphony.xwork2", and
> "com.opensymphony.webwork" to "org.apache.struts2".
>
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-- 
Cheers,
Knut Staring