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["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

Hi Monica,

Thanks for the descriptor and recipe.

I've modified an instance of the UI according to your 'recipe'. There are 
definitely issues about how the tag libraries work - or don't. I'll try and 
look at this early next week.

Gary

--On 10 August 2006 22:19 -0500 Monica Crawford 
<>
 wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> Thanks for the help.  I've attached two files. One explains the things
> that should change for the 2.4 servlet deployment descriptor and support
> for jsp 2.0. The other is the 2.4 deployment descriptor taken from the
> grouper-qs that is altered to use 2.4.
>
> Some more details if your interested:
> By spec a 2.4 servlet container should support a 2.3 deployment
> descriptor.  Weblogic 9.x will support a 2.3 servlet descriptor just fine
> w/ jstl 1.0 uri references for the <@taglib> jsp refs (the jar file is
> still 1.1).  This works great as long as el is not used in tiles.
> Tiles-el seems to be the main source of pain in weblogic 9.x.
>
> <Thinking out loud here...> things I can think of that might work (yet to
> try) include:
> - keep a 2.3 deployment descriptor, but somehow find another mechanism
> besides tiles-el - (maybe use the beanname?)  Is it possible to remove
> all el references from tiles? We still need to test if it is affecting
> all struts-el (html, bean, etc)
> - keep a 2.3 deployment descriptor, maybe create a custom tag to
> wrap/resolve the tiles specific el issues before hitting the page.
> - use a 2.4/jsp 2.0 environment, need to evaluate the impact.  How many
> grouper users are still on 2.3/1.2 envs? What is the protocol for
> deciding things like this? This may be way out-of-scope but an
> alternative.
>
> Let me know if there are additional questions.....
>
> Monica
>
>
> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
> > Hi Monica,
> >
> > I haven't tried getting the Grouper UI to run against servlet 2.4/jsp
> > 2.0 - I have deliberately avoided taking advantage of any new features
> > so that there aren't any backward compatability issues.
> >
> > I don't have a Weblogic instance to work against, but I'll have a go at
> > setting up the UI for Tomcat servlet 2.4/jsp 2.0 and see what errors
> > occur. If you would send me your 2.4 deployment descriptor that will
> > help me get started.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > --On 09 August 2006 17:24 -0500 Monica Crawford 
> > <>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > Is there intended support for Grouper UI running against a Servlet
> > > 2.4/JSP 2.0 deployment descriptor?
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get the Weblogic 9.x (servlet 2.4/jsp 2.0) environment to
> > > run grouper-qs and I run into errors starting with template.jsp.  There
> > > are a couple of things happening; an infinite loop in the
> > > LoginCheckFilter if the document.location.replace("error.do") isn't
> > > commented out, and the main issue - EL evaluation in the tiles tag
> > > attributes isn't happening.
> > >
> > > Seeking an answer I find this post
> > > http://forums.bea.com/bea/message.jspa?messageID=600020538&tstart=0 and
> > > try to convert the grouper-qs ui webapp to use the 2.4 deployment
> > > descriptor with some hopeful success but alas keep running into various
> > > errors regarding the taglibs on the include.jsp. Even after updating
> > > JSTL/Standard jars to 1.1 dtd references, it appears that the taglib
> > > definitions in include.jsp aren't being 'included' in subsequent jsps
> > > even if I use a dynamic include. Each new thing I 'fix' seems to open a
> > > new issue.
> > >
> > > I'm sure I'm missing something rather simple.  Any ideas for a cure? I
> > > can recreate the EL problem with a rather simple webapp, but can't
> > > recreate the include.jsp taglib issue.  Let me know what additional info
> > > you might need to further investigate.
> > >
> > > --



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing