[Opensource] [Announce] Expresso 5.3 RC-1 Available for Download

[Michael Rimov]

Hi Folks!

Expresso 5.3 RC-1 is ready to download.  Sanity tests have been performed 
on my machine, but we need the community to test this one in preparation 
for the final release.

New in this version is:
	Struts 1.1 Full integration.
	New Look and Feel
	Updated DBMaint to support page like the forums
	Over 30 bugfixes
	Many performance improvements

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How to upgrade:

Issue the SQL statement something to the affect of:
	ALTER TABLE DBOBJLIMIT ADD COLUMN TTL INTEGER;

-Update all your struts-config.xml files to point to the Struts 1.1 DTD 
[with the appropriate doctype change]

-Launch and run DBCreate to get default TTL settings set up in your 
DBObjectLimit table.

You should be set!

The most common error you will probably encounter is failure of some JSP 
pages to compile in your own apps.  This is because of 
ConfigManager.getProperty() which was deprecated back in Expresso 4 is now 
officially gone.  Take a look at the expresso's standard.inc to see how to 
get the same capabilities without ConfigManager.getProperty()

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The versions available for download are:

complete:  Tomcat 4.1.24 source code and class files

binary:  no source code, class files jarred in 4 jar files

LE: No unit testing code, no xerces or xalan. [Also about 6 MB Smaller than 
binary] Must have JDK 1.4 to run.  It's the perfect drop-in war for Tomcat 
4.1 since there is no xerces conflicts to encounter.

src: Source code distribution.  You must grab all the 3rd party libraries

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Community Notes:

--Francesco and Gabor:  Give this a try and let me know if you're still 
having the same null errors.  I can't see any difference between the unit 
tests and the code you guys are describing, so I assume it's working 
here.  But, nonetheless I certainly could (and often do :( ) miss something.

--David L:  Your patch is not in this particular release since it was 
uploaded last night.  It will be in before the next one, thank you very 
much for resending it!

We all look forward to your feedback!
						-Mike