That's a good point Wes. In fact I sent my first patch today and it got applied already :). I almost have XML working and I will be adding more tests in the next few days. When the plugin is ready we can bring it in, and see how people like it, and how it performs in production.
musachy On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Wes Wannemacher <w...@wantii.com> wrote: > On Saturday 28 March 2009 20:42:32 Musachy Barroso wrote: >> I wanted to get some discussion going on the possibility of using a >> third party framework for validation, and deprecating XWork's one in >> the future. If there is a good library, well documented and powerful, >> which does all we need, I don't really see the point in maintaining >> our own implementation. Thoughts? >> >> //look mom, I am tryin' to deprecate more code! >> >> musachy >> > > Advantages - > 1. Most likely less code for us to maintain > 2. Oval implements the closest thing to a validation standard for beans in > java that I know of > 3. Possibly reducing the training curve of new developers adopting struts > 4. Being abstracted to a plugin allows for future enhancement via dropping in > other validation implementations > > Disadvantage - > - We don't own Oval and will not have much say in its future. I would say that > if using OGNL should have taught us anything is that if we want to use it as a > dependency, we should volunteer on that side of things so that we can make > sure it is maintained in the future (probably not a problem with Oval, but > wouldn't hurt). > > Despite listing a disadvantage, I'm still +1 on this. I think users will > likely welcome the added features of validation through Oval. > > -Wes > > > > -- > > Wes Wannemacher > Author - Struts 2 In Practice > Includes coverage of Struts 2.1, Spring, JPA, JQuery, Sitemesh and more > http://www.manning.com/wannemacher > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org > > -- "Hey you! Would you help me to carry the stone?" Pink Floyd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
