From a workload point of view it wouldn't have made sense for me to go
down the Java 1.4 annotations route to begin with. What would now make
it quite difficult to do ex-post is because other Java 5 features are
used in lots of places (e.g. lots of for ... loops), generics, etc - I
pretty much accepted the Java 5 limitation from the beginning.
Phil
Joe Germuska wrote:
At 9:15 AM -0800 3/20/06, Craig McClanahan wrote:
On 3/20/06, Phil Zoio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ted,
In response to your comment:
"The original Struts Action codebase suffers from design deficiencies
that would take some effort to remedy."
This may be true, but I don't believe that it is a completely lost
cause.
The work that I have been doing with Struts Java 5 extensions
proves (to me
at least) that it is possible to move from the existing 1.2 code
base to
something with compelling features and free from the issues often
associated
with the Struts Action 1.
See:
> http://www.realsolve.co.uk/site/strecks/index.php
Phil
I happened to see Phil's presentation to the JAVAWUG group in London
last
Friday. There are some interesting ideas here (and they would seem
applicable in either a 1.x or 2.x Struts Action Framework context).
I would
suggest thinking about an optional layer (requires JDK 1.5) on top of
the
base framework that made available features like this ... similar in
spirit
to what the Tiger Extensions do in Shale.
I haven't had a chance to look at Phil's work yet, but would just
point out that it's possible to use annotations without requiring Java
5. That may not be an itch Phil wants to scratch, but worth keeping
in mind unless there are other aspects which also require Java 5. I
know my sysadmin has pretty much guaranteed that we are a year or more
away from moving our hosted systems to Java 5, and I doubt he's the
most conservative one out there. (well... maybe :) naah.)
Spring, at least, supports Annotations in pre-Java-5, so there is an
example that could be mined. I don't know how much extra effort it
takes, but I thought I'd throw it out there...
Joe
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