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WNUR Jazz Show, September 2 2004

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Not a lot of insightful commentary about this weeks show. I was pleased to find that the Lounge Lizards are still recording, and Queen of All Ears sounded pretty good.
Scott made his set this week from “on-the-spot” exploring the library, rather than bringing it from home, and he said he was pretty excited by his finds. I was in the back previewing tracks for the rest of the show, so I didn’t get to hear much of it…

artist: “track” – album   (label)

Jeff Parker Trio: “Like-Coping” – Like-Coping (Delmark)
Lennie Tristano/Warne Marsh: “Marionette” – Intuition (Capitol)
Leo Cuypers: “Blue Tango” – Heavy Days are Here Again (BVHaast (Unheard Music Series))
The Lounge Lizards: “Queen of All Ears” – Queen of All Ears (Strange and Beautiful)
Ken Vandermark’s Sound in Action Trio: “Law Years” – Design in Time (Delmark)
begin apprentice set
Omar Sosa: “L3zero” – Mulatos (Ota)
Lafayette Gilchrist: “The Return of Jes Grew” – The Music According to Lafayette Gilchrist (Shantytone)
The Blueprint Project: “Abdullah” – The Blueprint Project (CNM)
The Moving Form: “Saba” – Year of the Endless Moment (Engine Studios)
end apprentice set
Sex Mob: “Holiday of Briggan” – Din of Inequity (Knitting Factory Works)
Zony Mash: “Brand Spankin’ New” – Brand Spankin’ New (Knitting Factory Works)
Andrew Cyrille/James Newton/Lisle Atkinson: “Nicodemus” – Good to Go, with A Tribute to Bu (Soul Note)
Paul Termos/Misha Mengelberg: “Rumboon” – The Termos Sessions, Vol. 1 (X-OR)
Circulasione Totale Orcestra: “Cherry’s Cherry” – Accent (Odin)
Universal Congress Of: “Small World” – The Sad and Tragic Demise of Big Fine Hot Salty Black Wind (Enemy)
Julius Hemphill: “Skin 1” – Reflections (Freedom)
William Parker/Hamid Drake: “Black Cherry” – Volume 1: Piercing the Veil (AUM Fidelity)
William Parker/Hamid Drake: “Nur al Anwar” – Volume 1: Piercing the Veil (AUM Fidelity)
Bernard Woma: “Kelewele” – Live at the Pito Bar (Avant)
Bobby Bradford/Trevor Watts/Kent Carter/John Stevens: “Roswita’s Dance” – Love’s Dream (Emanem)
Birth: “Pakora Menorah” – Find (Hopscotch)
Available Jelly: “Wigwam” – Monuments (Ramboy)
New Horizons Ensemble: “Bold Souls” – Chicago Now, Vol. 1 (Silkheart)
Kahil El’ Zabar’s Ritual Trio: “Trane in Mind” – Renaissance of the Resistance (Delmark)

Struts 1.2.2 whoops

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Well, unfortunately, it looks as though the Struts team moved a little too quickly to vote Struts 1.2.2 as GA. It turns out that some code which depends on JDK 1.4 crept in (a couple of cases of Boolean.valueOf(...)), and I guess the wrong version of Commons Validator crept into the binary distribution.
Martin Cooper is working on a Struts 1.2.3 release which should go up for a vote next week. As a committer, I’ve gotten sort of indifferent about release numbers. My theory of open source is that you should treat open source projects as extensions of your local code base, not as products for which you depend on release cycles and such. At least, most open source projects don’t have such resources that a specific release number carries a lot more weight as “tested” or “vetted” compared to any nightly build. Obviously, when major development is going on, things are different, but Struts has been in maintenance mode for months now. (Some discussion on the list suggests this might change soon, but then again, we’ve had such flurries before.)
In short, though, if you use JDK 1.4, you can certainly use Struts 1.2.2 — you may just need to change the Validator JAR. We use Maven to manage dependencies, so that wouldn’t be an issue for us either, and might not be for you…