Jakarta Struts Cookbook

1.4. Upgrading from Struts 1.1 to Struts 1.2

Problem

You want to upgrade an application based on Struts 1.1 to Struts 1.2.

Solution

1. Download the Struts 1.2 binary distribution from http://struts.apache.org/acquiring.html.

2. Copy the JAR files and Tag Library Descriptor (TLD) files from the Struts lib folder to your application's WEB-INF/lib folder.

3. If you use absolute URIs for the taglib directives in your JSP pages, change these to use the new URIs shown in Table 1-4.

Table 1-4. Struts 1.1 and 1.2 Taglib URIs

Struts 1.1 Taglib URI	Struts 1.2.4 Taglib URI
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-bean	http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html	http://struts.apache.org/tags-html
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-logic	http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-template	http://struts.apache.org/tags-template
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles	http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-nested	http://struts.apache.org/tags-nested

1. Change the DOCTYPE declaration at the beginning of your validation.xml file(s) to the following:

   <!DOCTYPE form-validation PUBLIC 
   "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Commons Validator Rules Configuration 
   1.1.3//EN" "http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1_3.dtd">

2. Change the DOCTYPE declaration at the beginning of your struts-config.xml file(s) to the following:

   <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD ...