Re: Struts Shale v1.0.2 Quality

2006-03-25 Thread Sean Schofield
+1 (non binding) for Alpha On 3/23/06, Gary VanMatre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 for Alpha as well. Outside of the one known issue with the sql-browser application, it looks good. Nice work Wendy. Gary -- Original message -- From: Wendy Smoak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: Re: Struts shale questions / modifications

2006-03-22 Thread Juan Ara
--- Please Note: This is a conv. I had with Craig and I cannot access bugzilla ATM, so I'm forwarding this to the full list with attachments. --- This email has my first email fo Craig, his reply and at last my new reply to both Craig and List. / First Email / Dear

RE: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-21 Thread David Suarez
how this may or may not suit your needs. I hope I'm not 100% off-base here. Regards...djsuarez -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:04 AM To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale It would be a good idea

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-20 Thread BERNARDO ANTONIO BUFFA
What about a UseCase, who keeps track of the state of the (dialog|conversation|navigation) with the user? No need to separate in Action (behavior of a object) and ActionForm (state of a object). Just an UseCase (oder MongoMongoBanana) to invoke its methods via reflection (a la DispatchAction).

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-20 Thread BERNARDO ANTONIO BUFFA
What about a UseCase, who keeps track of the state of the (dialog|conversation|navigation) with the user? No need to separate in Action (behavior of a object) and ActionForm (state of a object). Just an UseCase (oder MongoMongoBanana) to invoke its methods via reflection (a la DispatchAction).

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-20 Thread Dakota Jack
Not MD_20_20_State? LOL. Anyway, I like this suggestion on any day of the week. I think naming here is very, very important, by the way. So much difficulty is caused by bad naming. Jack On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:04:23 -0500, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be a good idea to name

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-20 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:12:58 -0800, Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ClientState? ViewState? What is the lifetime? If the lifetime = x, I would suggest XState. X ~= longer than a request, shorter than a session :-) Jack Craig

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Craig Wrote: My current thinking is that we want the ability to have more than one active dialog, so you can push from one dialog to another, then pop back out. That's why I made it the dialog's responsibility to clean itself up. I don't like the fact that the dialog has to know the

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-20 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:54:06 -0600, Michael Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig Wrote: My current thinking is that we want the ability to have more than one active dialog, so you can push from one dialog to another, then pop back out. That's why I made it the dialog's

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-20 Thread Dakota Jack
snip Craig Wrote: My current thinking is that we want the ability to have more than one active dialog, so you can push from one dialog to another, then pop back out. That's why I made it the dialog's responsibility to clean itself up. I don't like the fact that the

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-19 Thread Craig McClanahan
The only problem I have with wizard is that it implies a serial forwards-backwards flow. I can see cases for dialogs :-) with branches in them. (It's the same reason I took standard next and previous methods back out of the API ... the concept doesn't always apply. To me, the lifetime of the

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-19 Thread James Mitchell
Rabago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale The only problem I have with wizard is that it implies a serial forwards-backwards flow. I can see cases for dialogs :-) with branches in them. (It's the same reason I took standard next

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-19 Thread Duncan Mills
In the past I've been around this merry-go-round on another Controller implementation, the end result of that painful exercise in semantics was the following: 1) An activity - a single node on the flow - display a page, send an email, execute this code etc. 2) A Process - a group of activities,

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-19 Thread Dakota Jack
ClientState? ViewState? What is the lifetime? If the lifetime = x, I would suggest XState. Jack On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:37:58 -0800, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem I have with wizard is that it implies a serial forwards-backwards flow. I can see cases for dialogs

[shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-18 Thread Stefan Langer
Hello Craig, I see your point and I think you are right but there is one disadvantage leaving the coding of the prev and next button up to the developer. Most of the times the developers do not clean up the session when using a dialogflow or a pageflow. This leaves a lot of garbage in the

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-18 Thread Ted Husted
No one is suggesting that Shale is off-topic. Using these types of remarks in a subject line is an established courtesy on higher-traffic lists. The Shale codebase lives here, and Struts Dev is the preferred list for posts regarding Struts Shale. 'nuff said. -Ted. On Tue, 18 Jan 2005

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-18 Thread Duncan Mills
+1, In the normal case nested process scope should be automatically cleaned up, however, in order for that to be useful, there also has to be sufficient metadata defining the process to map return state from the private process (dialog) scope to the outer scope automatically, plus of course

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-18 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:14:56 +, Duncan Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1, In the normal case nested process scope should be automatically cleaned up, however, in order for that to be useful, there also has to be sufficient metadata defining the process to map return state from the private

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-18 Thread Sean Schofield
Regarding the name dialog (which Duncan also raised in his original post); I'm open to alternatives, but could not think of anything that was really more evocative. I've heard some people refer to the general idea as transaction scope, but IMHO that doesn't really match up to what you might

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-18 Thread Hubert Rabago
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:41:35 -0500, Sean Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the name dialog (which Duncan also raised in his original post); I'm open to alternatives, but could not think of anything that was really more evocative. I've heard some people refer to the general idea

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-18 Thread Dakota Jack
Duncan Mills seems to characterize this as PrivateProcess. Something like that seems far more didactic and helpful to me than something it really is not, like Dialogue or Conversation. My suggestion is that the name reflect precisely what it is. Jack On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:10:54 -0600, Hubert

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-18 Thread Mike Kienenberger
Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan Mills seems to characterize this as PrivateProcess. Something like that seems far more didactic and helpful to me than something it really is not, like Dialogue or Conversation. My suggestion is that the name reflect precisely what it is. Perhaps

Re: [shale] Re: Struts Shale

2005-01-18 Thread Sean Schofield
I almost suggested the same thing: conversation. Its length, though, could be unfriendly. ConversationController. What about dialogue with the ue at the end? What about wizard? This is what we call our own custom solution that we're using now. Wizard generally implies a guided series of

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Ted Husted
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:50:05 -0700, Craig McClanahan wrote:  My personal itch is to not have to build everything from scratch --  its to build on the JSF request processing lifecycle, without  committing you to any particular view tier templating approach.    Doing more work than that is ... more

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Dakota Jack
How could there be a reason not to do this? (This is not a rhetorical question.) Jack On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:08:40 -0400, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:50:05 -0700, Craig McClanahan wrote: My personal itch is to not have to build everything from scratch -- its

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:08:40 -0400, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:50:05 -0700, Craig McClanahan wrote: My personal itch is to not have to build everything from scratch -- its to build on the JSF request processing lifecycle, without committing you to any

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Dakota Jack
Why is it not possible for the framework to use interfaces into which JSF can be plugged in, perhaps with adapters, as an option well as other alternatives? This too is not a rhetorical question. Jack On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:16:56 -0700, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Craig McClanahan
I think that's Ted's basic point. My answer is to consider how much extra machinery you have to build in to the Struts abstraction of what a ViewController is so that an application built on top of Struts can use different technologies. Just as one example out of my list from the previous email

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread gvanmatre
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:08:40 -0400, Ted Husted wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:50:05 -0700, Craig McClanahan wrote: My personal itch is to not have to build everything from scratch -- its to build on the JSF request processing lifecycle, without committing you to any particular view

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Dakota Jack
I admit to a huge amount of ignorance about JSF. I have partly been stymied by an inability to decide on a text to read. I have always liked Hans work, and may go that direction. I cannot know, of course, how that ignorance impacts my part in this discussion. I do think that in any event it is

RE: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Anders Steinlein
19:40 To: Dakota Jack; Struts Developers List Subject: Re: Struts Shale I think that's Ted's basic point. My answer is to consider how much extra machinery you have to build in to the Struts abstraction of what a ViewController is so that an application built on top of Struts can use

RE: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Anders Steinlein
19:40 To: Dakota Jack; Struts Developers List Subject: Re: Struts Shale I think that's Ted's basic point. My answer is to consider how much extra machinery you have to build in to the Struts abstraction of what a ViewController is so that an application built on top of Struts can use

RE: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Anders Steinlein
3.1 Java2 Standard Edition APIs I'd be +1 for J2SE 5.0 Although I have no real saying in this, I am +1 on J2SE 5.0 as well. As I would anticipate 1-2 years in development on Struts 2.x, J2SE 5.0 should be widely deployed by then. If not, then our endorsement of it could encourage people to

RE: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Anders Steinlein
3.1 Java2 Standard Edition APIs I'd be +1 for J2SE 5.0 Although I have no real saying in this, I am +1 on J2SE 5.0 as well. As I would anticipate 1-2 years in development on Struts 2.x, J2SE 5.0 should be widely deployed by then. If not, then our endorsement of it could encourage people to

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:27:49 -0700, Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admit to a huge amount of ignorance about JSF. I have partly been stymied by an inability to decide on a text to read. I have always liked Hans work, and may go that direction. I cannot know, of course, how that

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:22:09 +0200, Anders Steinlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3.1 Java2 Standard Edition APIs I'd be +1 for J2SE 5.0 Although I have no real saying in this, I am +1 on J2SE 5.0 as well. As I would anticipate 1-2 years in development on Struts 2.x, J2SE 5.0 should be

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Joe Germuska
At 3:27 PM -0700 10/28/04, Dakota Jack wrote: I admit to a huge amount of ignorance about JSF. I have partly been stymied by an inability to decide on a text to read. I have always liked Hans work, and may go that direction. I cannot know, of course, how that ignorance impacts my part in this

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-28 Thread Joe Germuska
Craig is starting from his knowledge of JSF and proscribing it as a facility for providing a lot of functionality to Shale. er... prescribing. Sorry. Joe -- Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.germuska.com In fact, when I die, if I don't hear 'A Love Supreme,' I'll turn

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Ted Husted
 On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 04:56:45 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  URL: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsShale A few more more notes. 2.4 View Controller 3.3 View (Presentation) Tier APIs Proposal:: JavaServer Faces 1.1 Does the View Controller need to be tied to JSF? Could the interface be

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread James Mitchell
I would be +1 for 1.5 as well -- James Mitchell Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist EdgeTech, Inc. 678.910.8017 AIM: jmitchtx - Original Message - From: Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 1:14 AM Subject:

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Niall Pemberton
I'm +1 for 1.5 as well, but from memory I believe there were people who didn't want to be that bleeding edge. Niall - Original Message - From: James Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:16 PM Subject: Re: Struts Shale

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Craig McClanahan
Just time for a couple of notes this morning. I'm +0 on JDK 5.0 (nee 1.5) depending on how long we really think this is going to take. The struts core part of this isn't really huge or complicated, but asking a Struts developer for a timeline is probably a silly thing to do :-). Other comments

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Joe Germuska
At 5:32 PM +0100 10/26/04, Niall Pemberton wrote: I'm +1 for 1.5 as well, but from memory I believe there were people who didn't want to be that bleeding edge. Or those who use a lovely operating system whose own Tiger release is still several months away, with no plans for Java 5.0 support

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
- Original Message - From: Sean Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:35 PM Subject: Re: Struts Shale I'm +1 on JDK 1.4 (+0 on JDK 1.5). I also agree with Craig's sentiments on keeping

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Joe Germuska
At 7:02 PM +0100 10/26/04, Niall Pemberton wrote: I'm all for taking JSF faces strongly into account, but the proposal seems to be *JSF only* for the view tier - to the exclusion of all others. Since I haven't tried out JSF yet and therefore don't know enough about it that makes me uneasy. Seems

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Michael McGrady
Niall Pemberton wrote: I'm all for taking JSF faces strongly into account, but the proposal seems to be *JSF only* for the view tier - to the exclusion of all others. Since I haven't tried out JSF yet and therefore don't know enough about it that makes me uneasy. Is this correct? I did get that

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Niall Pemberton
intended as an initial *musing*. Niall - Original Message - From: Michael Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:03 PM Subject: Re: Struts Shale Some people already moan that struts is too jsp orientated with the tags

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Niall Pemberton
Subject: Re: Struts Shale Niall Pemberton wrote: I'm all for taking JSF faces strongly into account, but the proposal seems to be *JSF only* for the view tier - to the exclusion of all others. Since I haven't tried out JSF yet and therefore don't know enough about it that makes me uneasy

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Michael McGrady
Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:03 PM Subject: Re: Struts Shale Some people already moan that struts is too jsp orientated with the tags that are included I'm not trying to tip the discussion in any direction here, but I thought I would point out that JSF

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Michael McGrady
- Original Message - From: Michael Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:03 PM Subject: Re: Struts Shale Some people already moan that struts is too jsp orientated with the tags that are included I'm not trying

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Michael McGrady
Niall Pemberton wrote: OK Craig didn't say it was JSF only - but that was my interpretation of the likely direction. He said The interface as currently defined is not dependent on JSF but then went on to say that JSF already solves a whole load of the view tier issues and re-inventing them outside

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:48:33 -0700, Michael McGrady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Niall Pemberton wrote: OK Craig didn't say it was JSF only - but that was my interpretation of the likely direction. He said The interface as currently defined is not dependent on JSF but then went on to say that

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Ted Husted
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:40:59 +0100, Niall Pemberton wrote:  OK Craig didn't say it was JSF only - but that was my  interpretation of the likely direction. Something to consider is that we are not constrained to a single line of development. We could proceed with Struts Shale as a subproject

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Sean Schofield
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:50:05 -0700, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * The proposed Struts Core doesn't contain or use any JSF components -- it presumes the use of the infrastructure stuff (managed beans, expressions, navigation mapping, as well as the basic request processing

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Eddie Bush
not :-) Eddie - Original Message - From: Michael Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 1:03 PM Subject: Re: Struts Shale Some people already moan that struts is too jsp orientated with the tags that are included I'm not trying

Re: Struts Shale

2004-10-26 Thread Eddie Bush
: Struts Shale At 7:02 PM +0100 10/26/04, Niall Pemberton wrote: I'm all for taking JSF faces strongly into account, but the proposal seems to be *JSF only* for the view tier - to the exclusion of all others. Since I haven't tried out JSF yet and therefore don't know enough about it that makes me