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The following page has been changed by RainerHermanns: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/RoughSpots ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * [jcarreira] I'd encourage people to give the ww: tags a spin... they're really much more powerful than the JSTL or previous struts tags and you don't need so many tags to do things. On being closer to HTML attributes, do you have some examples? * [mrdon] +1 for aligning attributes with HTML attributes * [tm_jee] -1. If I'm not mistaken I think WW's tag are doing stuff in a broader perspective, typically in a theme perspective and I hope we could still keep it that way, if possible. A textfield for example, merely says its a textfield, how it behaves is entirely up to the particular theme. Normally, one would extends from a parent theme, and overide those components' template that they want alteration accordingly or introduce other templates that could co-exists with their counterparts to skin the component. + * [rainerh] Big -1... The ww tags are no dynamic replacement for simple HTML tags, but a complete set of UI components. With these themeable components small and large webapps can be easily build. All (important) HTML attributes are supported, not for the simple tags, but for the complete component. 1. Actions should return concrete objects, not symbolic results. Symbolic results might have been optimal when you had one event/method per action and the outcomes were always whole-page views, but they get in the way now. When you want to return anything that requires more than the symbol, you have to do some less than intuitive things to make the Action and the Result cooperate. I'd prefer to see a concrete Result get returned from Action methods, which would allows developers to do more powerful things more easily. There are a bunch of ways to make it backward compatible too. You could return 'new SymbolicResult("success")' and have the SymbolicResult do the lookup stuff (You could even redefine the String constants to be SymbolicResults). You could alternatively use a static class to do Results.find(SUCCESS). Or you could even allow method to continue to return String or Result, and if String wrap it in a SymbolicResult. * [frankz] +1. This is one area where I personally think Struts had it right and we've seen frameworks getting it "wrong" subsequently. !ActionForward I believe is the right concept, even if the realization might not be optimal. I think the difference between return "ok"; and return new ActionResult("ok"); is pretty minimal, but the later opens up a lot of possibilities being a true object that can have behaviors and properties and such. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
