Re: [OT] Re: Patch all or individual commits?

2006-08-28 Thread Paul Speed
Antonio Petrelli wrote: Ted Husted ha scritto: Something that could go wrong under CVS is that one file's commit would fail, the others would succeed, and the repository would be in an unexpected state. Thank you, I didn't know this CVS problem (maybe because I am too much lucky :-) )

Re: Dear trolls...

2006-05-01 Thread Paul Speed
Jonathan Revusky wrote: Paul Speed wrote: Of course, there is a difference between polite discourse and trolling. I think we all know who the real trolls are and I think the term has been leveled a little heavy-handed lately. I think the bottom line is that if someone doesn't use

Re: Dear trolls...

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Speed
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On 4/27/06, Patrick Lightbody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear trolls, Please go. Or at least try to form your rambling in to some sort of actionable suggestion. But don't just bitch for the sake of knowing that people are reading, because... Dear everyone else,

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Speed
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: You are of course right about this. But, much like taking the ideas about inventory control and order processing and such from Dell and starting your own business is possible, the likelihood that you would get anything but a small fraction of the attention and

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Speed
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: [...] I don't think it is accurate to think that ego doesn't play a part in just about everything that just about everyone does. We all want to see our work benefit others. For most of us I believe its because we genuinely like the feeling we get when someone

Re: Proposal for change

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Speed
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: However, if I were to come up with one now, I would say it is simply to help ensure that Action1 does not die, and more than that, is allowed to evolve. I know it isn't going away, I know support isn't being dropped, I know all that. I also know that Ted has said he

Re: Bug report for Struts [2006/04/23]

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Speed
I think filters is the way to do this. Create a filter and then have it e-mail itself every so often. -Paul Martin Cooper wrote: On 4/24/06, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure there is a way, but my exploring and googling isn't turning up anything. Any JIRA experts out there?

Re: [VOTE] Struts 1.2.9 Quality

2006-03-17 Thread Paul Speed
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Fri, March 17, 2006 9:15 am, Ted Husted said: Anytime anyone says something like I don't want to do this work unless it's going to be accepted to the distribution, then the first thing I think is that this person is volunteering for the wrong reasons, and, if so,

Re: [OT] IDE Haters (Was Re: Logging in MailReader 1.3)

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Speed
Amen. At work I'm fond of saying Eclipse is the devil. :) It gives you tons of power (tons!) and then every now and then sends you on a two hour hunt to figure why the right jars aren't getting picked up or some weird auto-format thing that can't be turned off (yet in this version or

Re: Milestones proposal: Step 1 (revised)

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Speed
I'll mention how we do it in case it sparks inspiration... We use Jira to manage issues for several software configurations and packages. Because of our odd agile process, we never really know when we're going to cut a release (which is sort of similar to you guys but we're more customer

Re: [PROPOSAL] Target tickets to milestones and use as roadmap

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Speed
From the peanut gallery... How we do this stuff at my day job is that we create versions in Jira for each of the milestones (which I think is what you guys are talking about) which lets us use the roadmap feature, etc.. We also create an artificial milestone called Future that we assign

Re: Storing current ActionContext in ThreadLocal

2005-03-11 Thread Paul Speed
Joe Germuska wrote: So, I was just about to add support for static access to the current ActionContext using ThreadLocal, and then I realized that this approach is more commonly used with classes than with interfaces. Since ActionContext is an interface, we'd have to do something like this:

Re: [OT] Re: WeakReference

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Speed
Dec 2004 02:03:39 -0500, Paul Speed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A WeakReference is just a way of holding a reference to an object that will not keep it from being garbage collected (a very useful thing). There are also ways that you can track when it has been garbage collected. Once it has been garbage

Re: [OT] Re: WeakReference

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Speed
I don't think weak referencing is going to help you. As Craig mentioned, an Object is immutably tied to its Class... which is immutably tied to its ClassLoader. If Foo has a reference to Bar and you want to replace Bar's implementation (BarImpl) at runtime without effecting Foo then you are

Re: [OT] Re: WeakReference

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Speed
I agree with Martin which is why I originally prefixed the subject with [OT] on my first response. In the end, fleshed out, your stuff may be of interest. But in the mean time, there are probably more appropriate places for you to learn about these parts of Java on your journey to realizing

[OT] Re: WeakReference

2004-12-01 Thread Paul Speed
A WeakReference is just a way of holding a reference to an object that will not keep it from being garbage collected (a very useful thing). There are also ways that you can track when it has been garbage collected. Once it has been garbage collected, it's gone though. All you have is any

Re: Think Tank Thread on IoC, CoR, and HaD (hot arse deploy) [was Re: Chain enhancement idea]

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Speed
Just a lurker; I'm trying to follow along but I still don't get it. Dakota Jack wrote: You can tell me to use create on demand instead, but then I don't need anything fancier than an IoC framework that lets me reconfigure on the fly. And, current IoC approaches provide me other important

Re: [VOTE] Adopt HTTP Release Guidelines (was Re: [Announce] Release of Struts 1.2.5 (beta))

2004-10-19 Thread Paul Speed
From an innocent bystander... For what it's worth, based on my experience following the Tomcat developer list, it pretty much works exactly as the HTTPD description below (a). To back it up, here's the quote fromt he latest release vote: Hi, Tomcat 5.5.3 has been available for about a week

Re: svn commit: rev 54927 - struts/trunk/src/test/org/apache/struts/action

2004-10-16 Thread Paul Speed
It is kind of nice to have revision information in the javadocs though, isn't it? I've at least found it useful in my own projects. -Paul Martin Cooper wrote: I would suggest just taking this line out... -- Martin Cooper On 16 Oct 2004 16:09:27 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Separate Lists for Wiki Commits?

2004-10-07 Thread Paul Speed
Mike Kienenberger wrote: more sarcasm Otherwise, why not combine the struts-dev and and struts-user lists? After all, email filters can eliminate whichever list you don't want to receive. In fact, we can just have all apache mailing lists go to one address /more sarcasm -Mike Come

Re: Proposed Action base class change

2004-10-07 Thread Paul Speed
I'd just like to point out that the only valid way to tell if two objects are the same instance if to use ==. Any other approach will not work. Comparing the toString() method results as you do is only really comparing the hashcodes... which are not unique by a long shot (I never assume

Re: Proposed Action base class change

2004-10-07 Thread Paul Speed
Bah! Realized after I hit send that you were talking about logging. Others have already pointed out how to do that one using the System call. So, nevermind. -Paul Paul Speed wrote: I'd just like to point out that the only valid way to tell if two objects are the same instance if to use

Re: Proposed Action base class change

2004-10-07 Thread Paul Speed
- Hiran Chaudhuri SAG Systemhaus GmbH Elsenheimer Straße 11 80867 München Phone +49-89-54 74 21 34 Fax +49-89-54 74 21 99 -Original Message- From: Paul Speed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 17:41 To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: Proposed Action

Re: Struts Wiki Etiquette: Niall's Help

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Speed
Man... this is almost the exact post I've been imagining sending. I hate to do me toos... but, me too. -Paul Deadman, Hal wrote: Some of your word choices, if not personal attacks, would definitely qualify as inflammatory considering the importance of the subject matter. As an example of

Re: DispatchAction security

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Speed
Michael McGrady wrote: Mike Kienenberger wrote: Rick Reumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Kienenberger wrote the following on 9/17/2004 2:17 PM: Any time you allow an end user an opportunity to specify a parameter for reflection, you're introducing security concerns. However, a