In my case I couldn't see a real benefit of having 2 different ways to "call" server-side functionality. For me it makes a lot of sense, that everything exposed by the server must be an action. This allows me to re-use almost everything and maybe later on to redesign my site by mixing AJAX with normal HTTP request usage.
hth, ./alex -- :Architect of InfoQ.com: .w( the_mindstorm )p. On 5/24/06, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 10:46 AM -0400 5/24/06, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: >I haven't seen your work, so I can't talk intelligently about it... I >would agree though that if DWR is going to make HTTP calls to execute >Actions (a suggestion I might add that I made about two months ago to Joe >with regard to how to better integrate with Struts), then that certainly >alleviates my concern. Forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere, but I'm still confused about why someone would want to "integrate" DWR with Struts? I've only used it a bit, but in each case, I didn't really see much value in coaxing it to work through Struts' request processing model. They co-exist quite peacefully in a webapp without needing to know anything about each other. I'd think a well designed application would have both Struts Actions and DWR remote objects obtaining services they need from the ServletContext, Spring, or some other independent mechanism, and DWR doesn't need to render a view in any conventional way... so what is left for Struts to do? I admit that I did extend DWR so that the ExecutionContext could provide a reference to a Struts 1.3 ActionContext (or rather, my custom subclass of it), so that I could maintain consistency in how I interacted with various session attributes... but it seems to me that anyone who is extending ActionContext is also in a position to extend DWR where necessary. I would think it probably better to advise people to use ServletFilters where they want common behavior on every request. Help me out here... Joe -- Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://blog.germuska.com "You really can't burn anything out by trying something new, and even if you can burn it out, it can be fixed. Try something new." -- Robert Moog --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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