Modifying source to return empty string instead of

[akede2001]

Greetings,

We've recently run into an issue with JBoss 4.2.1 GA which bundles Tomcat. In the past, we've modified the Tomcat source to return an empty string instead of a string containing "null".

Now that JBoss 4.2.x bundles Tomcat, we're having a little issue with finding the files to modify so that we can use this upgraded version with our new projects. The business logic requires that the resulting values yield an empty string rather than providing one of "null", as null is utilized in the backing databases.

If anyone has any ideas on where to look at modifying the source, I'd love to hear it. I've downloaded the 4.2.1 GA source tree, but see no mention or configuration options would yield the result we're looking for.

Thanks!
Michael Martinek

[akede2001]

Ok, so as an update.. I've located a bundled zip file with what appears to be the web engine. The name of the .zip file is jbossweb-src.zip and is packaged at jboss-4.2.1.GA-src\thirdparty\jboss\web\lib.

Now to work on getting the changes to compile.

[akede2001]

It would appear the jbossweb-src.zip, even without changes, cannot be compiled, jarred, and included with the JBoss build. It won't deploy.

[peterj]

When I have only a few classes that need to be changed, I usually compile those sources against the original jar file, and then replace only those changed classes in the original jar file.