Hi, Joe, Thanks for the response.
This is what you asked for last time. I assume this means that what I provided is not enough to talk about? That sort of surprises me, because I thought that showed how you can do the same thing without any backward compatibility issues? Didn't it? How does the use of Strategy I suggested do anything inconsistent with code that already exists? I guess I don't see where the incompatibility lies. That is why I gave the example of an actual class (the popluate class) in the present work on the chain supplanting the RequestProcessor. I guess I don't understand what you are saying there because there was what I thought was a clear showing of how you could use the Strategy pattern, avoiding the difficulties of the Template Method pattern, without incurring any costs. Didn't the code show that? If the code did not show that, could you please tell me why? I thought that is just what it showed. That is why I gave it to you in response to your question. Certainly your question was more than legitimate. I just thought I had answered it. If you mean that to suggest alternatives I have to code all of Struts rather than suggest and show how it could be done to open conversations, then I don't understand. I am sure you don't mean that/ On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:30:00 -0600, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:36 PM -0800 3/5/05, Dakota Jack wrote: > >I gave you a specific, but you did not respond, Joe. Can you tell me why? > > OK, ready to reply. > > Basically, we're aiming to release a version of Struts 1.3.0 which is > completely backwards compatible with Struts 1.2.x. At this point, > the template method works and provides backwards compatibility; > furthermore, the nature of the ComposableRequestProcessor is such > that people who are ready to press forward with new designs can do so > with minimal impact to the released codebase and with whatever level > of concern for backwards compatibility is appropriate. > > In short, if you want to use the Strategy method, please, feel free. > If you want to put up some web pages explaining to people how to use > it and perhaps providing code, I think that would be very nice. Over > time, it may make sense to change the way that the Struts core code > works to use the Strategy pattern. Or, it may not. > > For example, look at Hubert's FormDef project. He had an idea for a > different way to use Struts; he put it together and made it available > to people. People who are ready to use it can do so. > > Joe > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Narrow minds are weapons made for mass destruction" -The Ex > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
