The / impact or how to lose one day.
I was developing a master-detail administration module for an ERP at the company I am working now.
So, I finish my task, hand it over to the administration team and start working on the next one.
The next day I have received a bug report that was saying my module did not worked at all. I tested it myself on the deployment server and it was true. I was seeing only a blank page.
I am relatively new to the j2ee / struts development so I did not know what was happening. On my jboss local server everything was working OK, on the Oracle Application Server – blank page.
The worst part for this it was that I did not have rights to make debug on the Oracle. After a day of struggle one colleague enlighten me: it was a “/” missing from the struts-config action’s forward definition.
I had written:
<forward name="default" path="template.jsp?page=erp/...
and it should have been:
<forward name="default" path="/template.jsp?page=erp/...
Not very smart of me… 
