On 11/14/05, Wolfgang Gehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I happen to use 1.3 with Tiles in a portlet-like manner. I call an > action (command) from a tiles definition. I have onEdit and onRender > methods. Are portlets components? Then 1.3 opened the door to component > orientation. New, WOW! All I'm saying instead of focusing on the old > stuff which everyone already knows, let's communicate the new > possibilities! And they are in the CORe chain. What we are really > talking about is programmers being able to defend why they want to use > Struts for another 5 years, with all that modern component wizardry around.
In my experience, the very best way to communicate possibilities is with examples and documentation. It's great that you are using 1.3. with Tiles in a portlet-like manner. If anyone would like to give back to the project, please consider creating an example application or HOWTO that describes what you are doing in your own projects. We also have a new CookBook application in the Struts Apps subproject [1]. (Thanks Steve!) I don't know if "Tiles as Portlets" can can be boiled down to a cookbook recipe. But, if it can, we will have a place to put it now! We're in the midst of positioning Tiles as a standalone project [2], and one of the problems we have is the original Tiles Developer's Guide is out of date. If someone needs more to chew on, there will be a lot to do there, especially in terms of documenting what Tiles can *really* do. It would also be wonderful to see more examples of using Struts with the many, many extensions that are already available. Gizmos like Struts-Menu, Struts-Layout, SSL Ext, Struts TestCase, and Struts Velocity. The original idea behind Struts SourceForge [3] was to be a home to example applications. To date, the focus has been on extensions and utilities, but it would be great to host more example applications there. Something that we moved to Struts SF, and then started to move back, is the Resource Directory. The latest version on the wiki is nice [4], but it's no where near complete. I've been wondering if we should try moving the resource directory to a Confluence wiki [5], and maybe add a blog to archive Announcements. I miss the days [6] when we were *the* portal for everything Struts. -Ted. [1] - http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/struts/apps/trunk/cookbook/ [2] -http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/struts/sandbox/trunk/tiles/ [3] - http://struts.sourceforge.net/ [4] - http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsResources [5] - http://opensource2.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/STRUTS/Home [6] - http://struts.apache.org/struts-doc-1.1/news/news_2002_q4.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
