second round of public beta bugfixes:

- fixed a bug in navigation between conferences via post links
- fixed the "your post is 'new'" bug (this was actually another bug, in
  postNewMessage())
- some other stuff

src/com/silverwrist/venice/servlets/ConfDisplay.java

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ public class ConfDisplay extends VeniceServlet
    *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
 
-  private static Category logger = Category.getInstance(ConfDisplay.class.getName());
+  private static Category logger = Category.getInstance(ConfDisplay.class);
 
   /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    * Internal functions

src/com/silverwrist/venice/servlets/ConfOperations.java

@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ public class ConfOperations extends VeniceServlet
 
   private static boolean validateNewTopic(ServletRequest request, String on_error) throws ErrorBox
   {
-    boolean is_title_null, is_zp_null;
+    //boolean is_title_null, is_zp_null;
 
     String foo = request.getParameter("title");
     if (foo==null)
       throw new ErrorBox(null,"Title parameter was not specified.",on_error);
-    is_title_null = (foo.length()==0);
+    //is_title_null = (foo.length()==0);
 
     foo = request.getParameter("pseud");
     if (foo==null)
@@ -94,9 +94,13 @@ public class ConfOperations extends VeniceServlet
     foo = request.getParameter("pb");
     if (foo==null)
       throw new ErrorBox(null,"Body text was not specified.",on_error);
-    is_zp_null = (foo.length()==0);
+    //is_zp_null = (foo.length()==0);
 
+    /* EJB 4/5/2001 - remove this for consistency.  FUTURE: bring it back under a global option?
     return is_title_null || is_zp_null;
+    -- end removed code */
+
+    return false;
       
   } // end validateNewTopic
 
@@ -709,8 +713,11 @@ public class ConfOperations extends VeniceServlet
 
 	} // end catch
 
+	/* EJB 4/5/2001 - code removed for consistency - FUTURE: bring it back controlled by
+	   a global option?
 	if (ntf.isNullRequest())
 	  return null;  // no title or text specified - "204 No Content"
+	-- end removed code */ 
 
 	setMyLocation(request,"confops?sig=" + sig.getSIGID() + "&conf=" + conf.getConfID() + "&cmd=T");
 	return ntf;

src/com/silverwrist/venice/servlets/format/TopicPosts.java

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package com.silverwrist.venice.servlets.format;
 import java.util.*;
 import javax.servlet.*;
 import javax.servlet.http.*;
+import org.apache.log4j.*;
 import com.silverwrist.util.StringUtil;
 import com.silverwrist.venice.core.*;
 
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ public class TopicPosts implements JSPRender
    *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
 
+  private static Category logger = Category.getInstance(TopicPosts.class);
+
   // Attribute name for request attribute
   protected static final String ATTR_NAME = "com.silverwrist.venice.content.TopicPosts";
 
@@ -60,6 +63,10 @@ public class TopicPosts implements JSPRender
 		    TopicContext topic, int first, int last, boolean read_new, boolean show_advanced)
       throws DataException, AccessError
   {
+    if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
+      logger.debug("TopicPosts: sig=" + sig.getSIGID() + ", conf=" + conf.getConfID() + ", topic="
+		   + topic.getTopicNumber() + ", range=[" + first + ", " + last + "], rnm=" + read_new
+		   + ", shac=" + show_advanced);
     this.engine = engine;
     this.sig = sig;
     this.conf = conf;
@@ -70,9 +77,12 @@ public class TopicPosts implements JSPRender
     this.unread = topic.getUnreadMessages();
     if (read_new)
       topic.setUnreadMessages(0);
+    if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
+      logger.debug(this.unread + " unread messages");
     this.messages = topic.getMessages(first,last);
     this.visit_order = TopicVisitOrder.retrieve(request.getSession(true),conf.getConfID());
-    visit_order.visit(topic.getTopicNumber());
+    if (visit_order!=null)
+      visit_order.visit(topic.getTopicNumber());
     List aliases = conf.getAliases();
     topic_stem = (String)(aliases.get(0)) + "." + String.valueOf(topic.getTopicNumber()) + ".";
 
@@ -173,7 +183,10 @@ public class TopicPosts implements JSPRender
 
   public int getNextTopicNumber()
   {
-    return visit_order.getNext();
+    if (visit_order!=null)
+      return visit_order.getNext();
+    else
+      return -1;
 
   } // end getNextTopicNumber
 
@@ -203,8 +216,9 @@ public class TopicPosts implements JSPRender
   public String getNextLocator()
   {
     StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer("sig=");
-    buf.append(sig.getSIGID()).append("&conf=").append(conf.getConfID()).append("&top=");
-    buf.append(visit_order.getNext());
+    buf.append(sig.getSIGID()).append("&conf=").append(conf.getConfID());
+    if (visit_order!=null)
+      buf.append("&top=").append(visit_order.getNext());
     return buf.toString();
 
   } // end getNextLocator
@@ -257,7 +271,10 @@ public class TopicPosts implements JSPRender
 
   public boolean canDoNextTopic()
   {
-    return visit_order.isNext();
+    if (visit_order!=null)
+      return visit_order.isNext();
+    else
+      return false;
 
   } // end canDoNextTopic
 

src/com/silverwrist/venice/servlets/format/TopicVisitOrder.java

@@ -99,13 +99,9 @@ public class TopicVisitOrder
     TopicVisitOrder tvo = (TopicVisitOrder)(session.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE));
     if (tvo!=null)
     { // make sure the conference is OK
-      if (tvo.confid!=confid)
-      { // wrong conference - remove this
-	session.removeAttribute(ATTRIBUTE);
+      if (tvo.confid!=confid) // wrong conference - remove this
 	tvo = null;
 
-      } // end if
-
     } // end if
 
     return tvo;