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11.09.2002 - A New File Upload Library Release
Posted By: Jayson Falkner
Jason Hunter has posted an update of the com.oreilly.servlets package: "This release includes numerous file upload enhancements, bug fixes, and workarounds for various browsers. Among the most important:

• Resolved an issue where exceptions were thrown if a boundary hit just at the end of the 64k read buffer.
  
• Enhanced MultipartRequest to include query string parameters in its parameter list.
• Added support to MultipartParser for browsers that send preambles.
• Added a MultipartParser constructor that takes a character encoding.
• Added support for unquoted header values (helpful to lynx browsers).
• Added support for file names as part of the Content-Type header (helpful to Opera browsers).
• Made DefaultFileRenamePolicy thread-safe.

I also enhanced Base64Encoder/Decoder and the MailMessage class, and added new entries to the FAQ and Servlet Bugs You Need to Know About listings.

Nearly all these improvements came as suggestions from users. My sincere thanks to everyone who wrote in with ideas and problem diagnoses. You'll see your names in the code. Keep the ideas coming!

Posted by Jason Hunter at November 06, 2002 03:11 PM"

11.08.2002 - Struts Article targeted toward very new users and management
Posted By: Kevin Bedell
I've just had an article on Struts posted at developer.com. I specifically targetted the article to very new users and those needing articles or information to give to managers.

My hope is that new users can get a basic understanding of Struts by reading it. In addition, I specifically tried to make it so you could print it and give it to your boss to help justify adopting Struts.

The article references a companion Powerpoint presentation designed to help 'sell' struts to management - but developer.com publsihed it so fast that I hadn't finished the presentation! (see you later, I better get working on it!)

This is the first of a series of articles. Later articles will cover building a first application as well as advanced topics such as JUnit and Cactus testing using strutstestcase.

Let me know what you think and if there are other topics that need coverage!

Thanks - and especially to the commiters for building a great framework. Kevin

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