+1 for combining efforts. Eric, could you submit the topics stuff as a patch for Johannes' plugin?
I would like for us to define some strategy for this, and don't let drag for months. Do we all agree that bringing this into the sandbox is a good idea then? musachy On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Obinna<obi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with Renee, Wes et al that having some kind of 'official' ajax > plugin is almost a requirement for a serious UI framework as serious now. > I've used ajax feature pretty heavily on the last 4 projects (all using > struts) I've worked on. The first two using dojo, and the last two using a > homegrown jquery integration which has turned into my plugin that Wes > referred to. I am a fairly heavy user of jquery now and would certainly > provide support a struts plugin. I am very impressed by Johannes' plugin > especially considering how quickly/solidly it's come together. I think as > Wes said, we should combine our efforts together now to provide something we > can all support together. For example, while Johannes' plugin focuses > heavily on interface features/ widgets and effects, mine focuses more on the > event handling and integrating events between componenent or custom js code > (using a publish/subscribe framework). Looking at the respective code bases > I think that these feature sets can be combined fairly easily. > > To summarize, I'm +! for the plugin and will help implement and support it > if/when approved. > > - Eric > > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Musachy Barroso <musa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am also a jquery user, so I can help support this. >> >> musachy >> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Wes Wannemacher<w...@wantii.com> wrote: >> > [thread snip] >> > >> > I looked through the code and it is fairly straightforward. There are >> > Components, Beans and freemarker files. I didn't notice anything overly >> complex >> > in the build process. It looks like Johannes used eclipse, but setup the >> > source tree just like any maven project (src/main/java, >> src/main/resources). >> > There are no unit tests that I saw, but I don't think this should block >> us >> > from bringing into the sandbox (if we do promote this to being part of >> > struts). >> > >> > At this point, I think I am going to defer to Martin, as far as moving >> > forward. I think whichever way we go, I am going to volunteer to work on >> this. >> > If we bring it in to Apache, obviously I'll support it, but if we don't I >> will >> > probably start posting patches at Google Code. Personally, I'd rather see >> it >> > become part of Apache since it will gain more exposure (and transitively, >> > better support). I don't think it's a finished product, but it's much >> closer >> > than my plugin and will probably be easier to support than the existing >> ajax >> > plugin. >> > >> > I'd like to hear back from Martin, or anyone else against adoption before >> I >> > start working on it. If we decide not to bring it in, I can respect that, >> but >> > if we do bring it in, the first thing will be to maven-ize it, and use >> the >> > struts2-plugin artifact as the parent, etc. >> > >> > -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 >> >> > -- "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
