On 10/5/07, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/5/07, Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would be hesitant about doing this - mostly because no one else does > > it. > > If we let that stop us, then there would be no Struts project. :) > > > It might work well for developers, but does it really enhance the > > users' experience? > > Speaking as a user (and *every* active Struts committer I know *is* a > user), I would say projects like Struts-Menu and Struts-Layout have > shown that there are many ways to enhance the user experience. By > moving the original tags to a plugin, it becomes much easier for > people to create startling, leading-edge alternatives, far beyond > anything we would want to attempt in the core. As Don expressed in his > bullet points, it's a win-win for everyone. > > The only downside is the number of artifacts an application needs to > carry in its lib folder. As mentioned elsewhere, the ideal solution > there would be to create an omnibus struts JAR, like the spring.jar, > that contained the core and the "standard" plugins (tags, dojo, > code-behind, ...). > > I'm not sure of the licensing issues, but, in terms of "user > experience", it would be even better if we could roll the freemarker, > ognl, xwork, and common-logging-api JARs into the omnibus struts.jar, > so that there would be exactly one Struts artifact for a > "run-of-the-mill" application.
I agree that if we can roll everything into a single struts.jar that will eliminate any issues I have. With Maven users, it's a non-issue, but I think Maven still has a pretty small market share overall. Matt > > -- HTH, Ted > Attend "Migrating to Ajax" at ApacheCon US 2007: > * http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/1883 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://raibledesigns.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
