Mohan-

sounds interesting! Thanks for the paper ;)

One question:
Why are you using a Struts Plugin (SkinPlugin) instead of
ContextListener ?

With a context listener your framework is not *tied* to struts.

-Matthias

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohan Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 4:44 AM
> To: dev@struts.apache.org
> Subject: Lightweight Skin Framework
> 
> http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs527/DOWNLOAD/MohanKishore%2FCSS+Skin
> -final.doc
>    
>   As part of my course at UIUC, I have written a "CSS Skin" 
> pattern - along with a sample implementation. I would like to 
> contribute that to the struts framework. It is relatively 
> independent of the struts library (much like the Tiles 
> framework), but I feel that it would be most useful to the 
> web developers when bundled with Struts.
>    
>   I am aware of a much more powerful framework "XKins" - but 
> imho, that is an overkill for most applications. My pattern 
> assumes that most web developers already have a CSS file that 
> abstracts the pure presentation elements out of the JSP 
> files. This pattern allows you to provide alternative CSS 
> files in the form of skins. 
>    
>   regards,
>   Mohan
>    
>   [PS: please let me know if you want the pattern in a 
> different format]
> 
> 
> Mohan Kishore
> 1137 Foster City Blvd, Apt 2
> Foster City, CA 94404
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
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