This reads like Shale is not only a proposal but part of Struts. Is that true? If that is true, can someone explain how that happened? What the process was?
On 12/14/05, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 14 Dec 2005 - To give JavaServer Faces developers a head start on building > scalable web applications for the enterprise, Apache Struts now offers the > Shale Framework. Like the original "Struts Action Framework", Shale > provides > developers with a front controller, and several other components, to > provide > the "invisible underpinnings that hold an application together". > > "When JavaServer Faces arrived," explains the Struts website, "our > development community chose to 'make new friends but keep the old'. Some > of > us want (or need) to stick with the original request-based framework. > Others > are ready to switch to an component-based framework that builds on > JavaServer Faces. We offer both frameworks because we have volunteers to > create and maintain both frameworks." > > Shale is based on the recently standardized JavaServer Faces APIs, and > focuses on adding value, rather than redundantly implementing features > that > JSF already provides. Shale will run on any compliant JSF implementation, > including the one being developed by the Apache MyFaces project. It also > includes many features that Struts users appreciate, such as supporting > client side validation and the Tiles framework. > > Struts Shale was discussed by Craig McClanahan in a talk at ApacheCon on > Tuesday, December 13, 2005, entitled "Shale: The Next Struts??". Slides > from > the talk are available online [ > http://people.apache.org/~craigmcc/apachecon-2005-shale.pdf]. > > For more about Shale, visit the Struts Shale website [ > http://struts.apache.org/struts-shale/]. > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~
