I am also of the opinion that all missing links terminating to Index page is 
not useful. I always end-up with some code trying to prevent it. 

On Jan 28, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Ulrich Stärk wrote:

> There is no need to fight. Discuss your idea and try to achieve concensus. If 
> necessary call a vote.
> Or else, if you feel the change is small, or concensus is already there, just 
> do it.
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 28.01.2013 03:15, Kalle Korhonen wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Massimo Lusetti <mluse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Kalle Korhonen <
>>> kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com
>>>> My typical pattern is don't use Index pages, use servlet standard error
>>>> code mapping to Tapestry error pages, e.g:
>>> 
>> I want exactly the same, but I want to be able to use Index as I remember,
>>> for example, that the Start page is somehow deprecated in flavor of Index
>>> ones... Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes, support for Start page was completely removed... perhaps in 5.3. In my
>> opinion, Start page had it right functionality wise.
>> 
>>> I use Tynamo's tapestry-routing (http://tynamo.org/tapestry-routing+guide)
>>>> for "folder-specific" index pages, e.g:
>>>> @At("/")
>>>> public class Home {...}
>>>> I've always found Tapestry's Index page handing to be too far reaching.
>>> I don't want to use something "external" to achieve this. I think it should
>>> be part of the standard page handling/processing mechanism.
>>> Now I'm thinking about a way to reach the goal without changing the
>>> "semantic" of page request handling cause now if you have an index page
>>> with:
>>> void onActivate(String test)
>>> {
>>>   System.out.println("first context parameter: " + test);
>>> }
>>> if I call the url: /first/second/third ... My activation context method is
>>> called with the first parameter and the other discarded... My vision is
>>> that this should result in a 404.
>>> 
>> 
>> And what about onActivate(EventContext context)? If you could limit the
>> number of accepted parameters(an annotation parameter perhaps?), then that
>> might work. However, I'm often too much of a pragmatist to try to convince
>> Howard of what the framework should or shouldn't do. I'm usually happy with
>> the inherent "change it if you don't like it" flexibility of the framework.
>> Perhaps this is a battle worth fighting though and I agree that the
>> framework should have a built-in, low resource impact way of dealing with
>> 404s.
>> 
>> Kalle
>> 
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