Re: Bunch of issues...

> (sorry for posting this in dev, but I was told it's
> better if i post this here)
> 
> 1) Why does WW silently swallow OgnlExceptions that
> should be reported?

Already addressed in the Jira. https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-1277

> 2) How do I tell the datepicker what date format it
> should use, and why is the default so stupid? By
> default (ww:datepicker name="date" />), if I
> initialise it to the current date (new Date()), it's
> show as M-dd-yy. Soon as I pick a date in the picker,
> it becomes MM-dd-yyyy. Pretty unpolished.

Use format="%d-%m-%Y %H:%M" or whatever you need.
 
> 5) What's the point of ww:date, if I know how to
> format dates in i18n bundles, or did the author just
> not know basic java?

I wrote the tag because I needed a lot of date formatting in one of my latest projects. Found it really useful. You're welcome to use whatever basic java solution you can come up with.
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