While I appreciate the idea, I don't particularly think that plugins should be deterministic. Perhaps plugin is the wrong word as it brings to mind descriptors, versioning, dependencies, etc. for some people. In this case, I see it as simply a way to organize code and provide default configuration for that code. Anything that is common to multiple plugins should be pushed into the core.

Now, since the names of what configuration files are configurable, you could change it to load "struts-default.xml, struts-plugin.xml, struts-plugin-ext.xml, struts.xml" or whatever other files you'd like. From a core framework POV, I think simply loading struts-plugin.xml in a non-deterministic order is fine for our needs.

Don

tm jee wrote:
Hi guys, Just some thoughts, maybe we could have an order parameter introduced eg struts-plugin.xml
 <struts>
     <param name="order">10</param>
     <package ....>
</package>
 </struts>
So we could have control of which plugin gets the priority when loading and we could defined order 1-100 is for struts, custom plugin starts from 101 etc. Ordering for plugins with same ordering would be undefined. The ordering could maybe applied only to plugin (struts-plugin.xml) as we have just one bootstrap configuration (struts.xml) Thoughts? rgds
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From: David H. DeWolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, 28 September, 2006 12:15:12 AM
Subject: Re: Struts plugins

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but the patch to upgrade from 0.2 to 2.0 exists:

https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-1418



Also, while you're looking at this, here's another patch related to tiles that I'd be interested in:

https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-1450


David


Don Brown wrote:
Is there any Tiles 2 migration code I can put into a block or does it need to be written yet? I do agree it would be a great candidate.

Don

Antonio Petrelli wrote:
Don Brown ha scritto:
The first batch of plugins:
1. Configuration Browser
2. Jasper Reports
3. JFreeChart
4. JSF
5. Pell Multipart handler
6. Sitemesh
7. Struts 1
You forgot Tiles 2 :-)

Ciao
Antonio


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