I've been tasked with making some changes to an old webwork web application, and I'm stuck because I just can't get the application to behave the same in my development and test systems as it does in the production system. I don't really know a lot about webwork and it seems hard to find good documentation online.
More specifically, there is a JSP that displays a date. In production, the date includes the time, which is necessary, but in test only the date portion shows.
In production I get dates like this:
7/16/2013 11:00 AM
and in test I get dates like this:
7/16/2013
After a lot of digging I discovered that the production tomcat "work" folder wasn't where I thought it was and it has some ..._jsp.class files that I guess aren't associated with the JSP files I have. However, version control says the portion of the JSP file that prints the date hasn't changed, so I still don't understand how to fix my test system.
It is using the webwork taglib:
<%@ taglib uri="webwork" prefix="ww" %>
and displaying the dates using the property tag in an iterator:
<ww:iterator value="busySearchDTO.freetimes" status="index2">
<ww:property value="start"/>
freetimes is a java.util.Collection of TimeDTO which has this field and method:
/**
* Holds value of property start.
*/
public java.util.Date start;
/**
* Getter for property start.
* @return Value of property start.
*/
public java.util.Date getStart() {
return this.start;
}
Any explanations or pointers would be appreciated.
The solution was actually fairly mundane.
There was an xwork-conversion.properties file that had been deleted from and ignored in version control but was still on the server. Somehow I missed it. It specified a class to format java.util.Dates.