Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-04-04 Thread Lukasz Lenart
Any other ideas for 2.3 ? What about moving Web related classes from XWork to Struts Core ? Regards -- Łukasz + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/ Warszawa JUG conference - Confitura http://confitura.pl/ - To

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Johannes Geppert
Only a thought, what are you thinking about moving the convention plugin into core? Many People don't know the convention plugin and offen i hear that Struts2 is an old fashion XML configuration MVC Framework. Johannes -- View this message in context:

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread frans
+1 Can we use another json parser like jackson --Original Message-- From: Johannes Geppert To: dev@struts.apache.org ReplyTo: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: Roadmap for 2.3 Sent: Mar 15, 2011 5:03 PM Only a thought, what are you thinking about moving the convention plugin into core

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Maurizio Cucchiara
Subject: Re: Roadmap for 2.3 Sent: Mar 15, 2011 5:03 PM Only a thought, what are you thinking about moving the convention plugin into core? Many People don't know the convention plugin and offen i hear that Struts2 is an old fashion XML configuration MVC Framework. Johannes -- View

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Frans Thamura
json parser like jackson --Original Message-- From: Johannes Geppert To: dev@struts.apache.org ReplyTo: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: Roadmap for 2.3 Sent: Mar 15, 2011 5:03 PM Only a thought, what are you thinking about moving the convention plugin into core

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Maurizio Cucchiara
Johannes, I don't know, I'd prefer to keep the core the more slight as possible (but my opinion could be biased cause I am an old fashion XML coder :) ) On 15 March 2011 11:03, Johannes Geppert jo...@apache.org wrote: Only a thought, what are you thinking about moving the convention plugin into

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Frans Thamura
we find also using old xml is easier thatn @Action/@Result what happen if we wanna to change the result from velocity to jsp, to jasper the new one cannot F On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Maurizio Cucchiara maurizio.cucchi...@gmail.com wrote: Johannes, I don't know, I'd prefer to keep

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Ian Roughley
In development mode, using XML, you can also make real-time production configuration changes without needing to restart :-) /Ian On 03/15/2011 07:27 AM, Frans Thamura wrote: we find also using old xml is easier thatn @Action/@Result what happen if we wanna to change the result from velocity

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Dave Newton
And it's easier to create documentation automatically. (Not way easier, but still.) I guess I'd be opposed to making Convention be enabled by default, but we could certainly make an effort to highlight in a more effective way. Dave On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Ian Roughley i...@fdar.com

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Chris Pratt
-1. I find programming by religion (or convention or whatever you want to call it when the computer tries to guess what you mean) to be a very bad long term decision. For small programs it works out fine, but for anything with any scale you start to run into unimagined problems because someone

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Dave Newton
There's a tension between large-scale maintainability and small-scale hurry! apps. I think it's important that S2 can do both, and our documentation should reflect its suitability for each style, and provide insight and/or mechanisms into transitioning between the two (struts.xml from

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Steven Benitez
I love annotations for a lot of things, but I also prefer the XML based configuration for actions, interceptors, results, etc. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Dave Newton davelnew...@gmail.com wrote: There's a tension between large-scale maintainability and small-scale hurry! apps. I think

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread John Lindal
+1 I've actually extended the DTD with additional configuration for security features. The XML is easier to review for errors and ommissions because it is centralized. John On 3/15/11 9:25 AM, Steven Benitez steven.beni...@gmail.com wrote: I love annotations for a lot of things, but I also

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread John Lindal
json parser like jackson --Original Message-- From: Johannes Geppert To: dev@struts.apache.org ReplyTo: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: Roadmap for 2.3 Sent: Mar 15, 2011 5:03 PM Only a thought, what are you thinking about moving the convention plugin into core? Many

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Johannes Geppert
My intention is not to replace the XML Configuration. Both configurations ways work well together. I only like to see the convention configuration as default. Because with Convention Plugin it is much more easier for the user to get involved with Struts2. And this Feature is not so well known

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Dave Newton
I'm still against having it be the default, though. If it's enabled with a single switch, I'd be okay with that. Dave On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Johannes Geppert jo...@apache.org wrote: My intention is not to replace the XML Configuration. Both configurations ways work well together. I

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Chris Pratt
I'm with Dave on this one (obviously) (*Chris*) On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Dave Newton davelnew...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still against having it be the default, though. If it's enabled with a single switch, I'd be okay with that. Dave On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Johannes

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Wes Wannemacher
I'm with Dave and Chris... I like the conventions plugin, but I think it is too big of a change to make it a new default. It could potentially be the kind of thing that we look at for Struts 3 -Wes On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Chris Pratt thechrispr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with Dave on

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Matt Raible
If the conventions plugin allows for no XML and extensionless URLs, I'd like to see it rolled into the and defaulted. I'm happy to endure the pain of upgrading for those two features. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Wes Wannemacher w...@wantii.com wrote: I'm with Dave and Chris... I like the

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Wes Wannemacher
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Matt Raible m...@raibledesigns.com wrote: If the conventions plugin allows for no XML and extensionless URLs, I'd like to see it rolled into the and defaulted. I'm happy to endure the pain of upgrading for those two features. Or you could use the plugin...

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Ben McCann
I didn't realize you could setup Struts2 without XML. That sounds fantastic to me. I'd vote in favor of moving it to the core or at least highlighting it in the documentation. Having to do configuration in XML is the one thing I dislike about Struts2 despite being a longtime and happy user of

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Philip Luppens
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Ben McCann bmcc...@google.com wrote: I didn't realize you could setup Struts2 without XML.  That sounds fantastic to me.  I'd vote in favor of moving it to the core or at least highlighting it in the documentation.  Having to do configuration in XML is the one

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread Wes Wannemacher
Another thing to keep in mind here... The way the conventions plugin works is that it hooks in UnknownHandlers. If conventions is to become the new default, I think a classpath-scanning ConfigurationProvider should be created (IMHO). -Wes On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Philip Luppens

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread frans
/ -Original Message- From: John Lindal lind...@yahoo-inc.com Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:12:37 To: Struts Developers Listdev@struts.apache.org Reply-To: Struts Developers List dev@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: Roadmap for 2.3 How big is the JSON data that you are parsing? I have heard good

Re: Roadmap for 2.3

2011-03-15 Thread John Lindal
Listdev@struts.apache.org Reply-To: Struts Developers List dev@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: Roadmap for 2.3 How big is the JSON data that you are parsing? I have heard good reports about Jackson's performance, but we will need to investigate whether it can support all the hooks provided

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-30 Thread Dakota Jack
Why is JSF looking for help? Because it is superior or because it is failing? Why there is any *shame* in choices is really beyond me. I would like someone explain to me what JSF is doing involved with Struts other than raiding the name and goodwill. Struts and JSF are inherently incompatible.

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ][Slightly OT]

2004-12-30 Thread Dakota Jack
Sometimes Martin just hits the nail on the head. The House of Lords once debated putting up neon FOG signs in London for those that could not see the obvious. We have Martin to help us. My hats are off to this bit of very important bit of common sense. Jack On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:39:27

Re: Shale for 2.x? (was Re: RoadMap)

2004-12-30 Thread Ted Husted
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:28:32 -0800, Martin Cooper wrote:   Back in the day, it might have been better if we had placed  most of our taglibs with Jakarta Taglibs, rather than keep them  all here. I think this is the same sort of thing.  The problem with this theory relates to a similar issue that  

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-29 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:21:24 -0500, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything someone would like put differently? I'm somewhat curious when the Struts committers might be willing to make a conscious choice for a Struts 2.x architecture. While I'm personally going to continue to

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-29 Thread Vic
Craig McClanahan wrote: I believe that Struts will become gradually less relevant for new application development unless it adopts JSF strongly; :-). I don't think so. and it would be a shame to have to *compete* with Struts instead of *being* Struts. Why not have JSF compete with HTML tag

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-29 Thread Craig McClanahan
Funny how, every time I raise this issue, I only seem to get responses from NON committers :-). On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:08:32 -0600, Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig McClanahan wrote: I believe that Struts will become gradually less relevant for new application development unless it

Shale for 2.x? (was Re: RoadMap)

2004-12-29 Thread Ted Husted
Objectively, I think that Shale would be a better fit for Apache MyFaces. Back in the day, it might have been better if we had placed most of our taglibs with Jakarta Taglibs, rather than keep them all here. I think this is the same sort of thing. Since I'm not doing the work, I can't make the

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-29 Thread Sean Schofield
I'm somewhat curious when the Struts committers might be willing to make a conscious choice for a Struts 2.x architecture. While I'm personally going to continue to support the 1.3.x changes for evolution of existing apps, and use of the Struts-Faces integration library with it, I believe

RE: Shale for 2.x? (was Re: RoadMap)

2004-12-29 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
Hi Ted and others, Objectively, I think that Shale would be a better fit for Apache MyFaces. Uh, interessting point. I read the Shale proposal and found it nice. I haven't tried it for now. Back in the day, it might have been better if we had placed most of our taglibs with Jakarta

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-29 Thread Martin Cooper
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:21:24 -0500, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:21:46 -0600, Joe Germuska wrote: I haven't felt like there's a clear consensus on how to move such a thing forward, and I guess I'm still in ask permission mode instead of ask forgiveness mode.

RE: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-29 Thread Deadman, Hal
@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ] Craig McClanahan wrote: I believe that Struts will become gradually less relevant for new application development unless it adopts JSF strongly; :-). I don't think so. and it would be a shame to have to *compete* with Struts

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ][Slightly OT]

2004-12-29 Thread Michael Rasmussen
other page oriented technologies as the past. The future, as I see it, is in highly dynamic apps What exactly do you mean by highly dynamic? Are you referring to applications like gmail? Do you mean XAML type applications? (God willing they won't actually be XAML ;-) ) Or are you referring

Re: Shale for 2.x? (was Re: RoadMap)

2004-12-29 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:44:47 -0500, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Objectively, I think that Shale would be a better fit for Apache MyFaces. If the scope of the MyFaces proposal were expanded to building a JSF implementation and value added 'stuff' around it instead of building a JSF

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ][Slightly OT]

2004-12-29 Thread Martin Cooper
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:36:19 -0600, Michael Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: other page oriented technologies as the past. The future, as I see it, is in highly dynamic apps What exactly do you mean by highly dynamic? Are you referring to applications like gmail? Do you mean XAML type

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-29 Thread Vic
Deadman, Hal wrote: Webstart has been around for awhile and it has its place but it's not going to make web applications go away any time soon. I Clients and users think that good is good looking. So this is one future path posibility of a dynamic/futuristic architecture, that should be easier w/

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ][Slightly OT]

2004-12-29 Thread Sean Schofield
I would classify Gmail as moderately dynamic, but it's heading in the right direction. I'm talking about things like handling wizard page changes entirely on the client, up until Apply or OK is clicked; drag and drop in the browser; master/detail handling within the browser; real-time updates

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ][Slightly OT]

2004-12-29 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:50:51 -0500, Sean Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Probably a little bit off topic, but I wanted to respond to your theory. If your theory is correct, then yes, JSF is a dead-end. I don't agree with that theory, but I'm not sure that JSF will be the next step

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ][Slightly OT]

2004-12-29 Thread Martin Cooper
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:50:51 -0500, Sean Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would classify Gmail as moderately dynamic, but it's heading in the right direction. I'm talking about things like handling wizard page changes entirely on the client, up until Apply or OK is clicked; drag and

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ][Slightly OT]

2004-12-29 Thread Vic
Sean Schofield wrote: I think of the browser as a crappier version of WebStart. ;-) Walk towards the light I try to make my apps look like they are browser based. so people I show it to say: Nice DHTML. :-). Yah. This is not the old Swing, Swing Extensions in JDNC are VERY good ... and

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ][Slightly OT]

2004-12-29 Thread Martin Cooper
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:59:17 -0800, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:50:51 -0500, Sean Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Probably a little bit off topic, but I wanted to respond to your theory. If your theory is correct, then yes, JSF is a

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-29 Thread Ted Husted
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:29:58 -0800, Martin Cooper wrote:  There are a few points that I don't necessarily agree with, but  they're all phrased as Consider X. I can't argue with considering  them, although I might argue against actually doing them. ;-) Me too. But things get mentioned, so, like a

Re: Shale for 2.x? (was Re: RoadMap)

2004-12-29 Thread Martin Cooper
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:56:35 -0800, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:44:47 -0500, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Objectively, I think that Shale would be a better fit for Apache MyFaces. If the scope of the MyFaces proposal were expanded to building a

Re: RoadMap [was Re: ViewUtils ... ]

2004-12-29 Thread Martin Cooper
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:53:52 -0500, Sean Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm somewhat curious when the Struts committers might be willing to make a conscious choice for a Struts 2.x architecture. While I'm personally going to continue to support the 1.3.x changes for evolution of

RE: Roadmap

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Stanley
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 00:22, Joe Germuska wrote: Hmmm You may be thinking of HiveMind, which is the refactored IOC-type container that grew out of Tapestry. HiveMind is similar in focus to Spring, but follows an approach that is similar to Eclipse. (separation of configuration, services,

RE: Roadmap

2004-10-15 Thread Joe Germuska
And just to be clear... I have no idea if SiteMesh is already capable of this type thing. From what I saw it was Filter focused. Please correct me if I'm wrong. No, I'm pretty sure you're right there. You make some interesting points. It seems like it would be hard to get SiteMesh involved in

RE: Roadmap

2004-10-14 Thread Joe Germuska
Struts relies on Jakarta Commons stuff. So I think the pizza base is only good as the quality of the ingredients on top of it. Is there a way, for example, to get precise line error when, say the Digester cant intercept the struts-config.xml file, or when the underlying SAX XML Parser finds fault.

RE: Roadmap

2004-10-14 Thread Mike Stanley
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:47, Joe Germuska wrote: Struts relies on Jakarta Commons stuff. So I think the pizza base is only good as the quality of the ingredients on top of it. Is there a way, for example, to get precise line error when, say the Digester cant intercept the struts-config.xml

RE: Roadmap

2004-10-14 Thread Joe Germuska
Hmmm You may be thinking of HiveMind, which is the refactored IOC-type container that grew out of Tapestry. HiveMind is similar in focus to Spring, but follows an approach that is similar to Eclipse. (separation of configuration, services, with extension points). No, I know about HiveMind,

Re: Roadmap

2004-10-13 Thread Ted Husted
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:29:40 -0700, Martin Cooper wrote:  * The request may not have come from a form or a link; it may have  been submitted using an XMLHttpRequest object. In such cases, forms  as we talk about them are not relevant. Instead, we may want to  provide the request input in the form

RE: Roadmap

2004-10-13 Thread Ted Husted
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:53:10 +0100, Pilgrim, Peter wrote:  One more thing: Could we finally start designing to Java interfaces  into Strutssup2/sup? Ta.  interface IActionRequest { ... }  interface IActionResponse { ... }  interface IActionForward { ... }  interface IActionContext {     

Re: Roadmap

2004-10-13 Thread Martin Cooper
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:53:10 +0100, Pilgrim, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Martin Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] While I don't disagree with any of Ted's points, I do think that we need to expand our horizons with Struts Next, rather than just provide

Re: Roadmap

2004-10-12 Thread Mike Stanley
On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 11:27, Joe Germuska wrote: Note that, at least with ActionConfigs, there is an important difference between type and className. className refers to the type of the ActionConfig itself, should you want to use a subclass (say, for custom properties) while type refers

Re: Roadmap

2004-10-12 Thread Mike Stanley
snip The other thing I would add is strong debuggability. Is it true that Tapestry's web debugging is the best of the current crop of web application frameworks? Line precise error messages - are very useful. This however, is not as easy with a JSP engine, given the nature of JSP (template -

Re: Roadmap

2004-10-12 Thread Martin Cooper
While I don't disagree with any of Ted's points, I do think that we need to expand our horizons with Struts Next, rather than just provide more of the same. We need to move beyond the traditional web app and embrace the next generation of web apps that have some rather different characteristics.

Re: Roadmap

2004-10-10 Thread Ted Husted
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:04:40 -0400, Mike Stanley wrote:  Another simple suggstion I would like to make (enhancement request) -   it would be extremely powerful to add the property support that  exists for plugin configuration, to action and request processors.    This can go along way for special

Re: Roadmap was (Re: [VOTE] Move minimum to 2.3 ..)

2004-09-03 Thread Susan Bradeen
IMO, FWIW ... Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/03/2004 07:11:48 AM: OK, to sum up what people seem to be saying here: [Struts 1.2.x] * The minimums for 1.2.3 will remain Servlet 2.2 * We create a branch at the 1.2.3 tag, in case we need to make critical fixes to 1.2.x

Re: Roadmap was (Re: [VOTE] Move minimum to 2.3 ..)

2004-09-03 Thread Martin Cooper
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:11:48 -0400, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, to sum up what people seem to be saying here: [Struts 1.2.x] * The minimums for 1.2.3 will remain Servlet 2.2 * We create a branch at the 1.2.3 tag, in case we need to make critical fixes to 1.2.x later. As I