Hello all, The topic of adapting Struts to be a portlet framework compliant with JSR-168 was discussed earlier. I remember that some of you were interested in contributing to such a project. Now is the opportunity. One of the goals of the next generation of Struts, Struts 2.0, is "Transparent support for a portlet environment (JSR 168)". Development for Struts 2.0 has already begun little by little. Here is the roadmap page for Struts: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/status.html Please scroll down for the part that is titled "Struts 2.0.x" and then the part under it that is titled "Portlet (JSR-168) Whiteboard". Struts committers are seeking out the help of others to make suggestions and improvements to these initial development stages of Struts 2.0. Jetspeed developers and users can be especially useful in making sure that Struts 2.0 addresses the needs of portlet developers. You can do this by sending your feedback to the Struts committers. Here is what Craig McClanahan wrote about building portlet support in Struts:
"One approach to dealing with it has (in fact) already begun -- in the "contrib/struts-chain" subdirectory in the CVS sources is the beginnings of a refactoring of the standard RequestProcessor based on the "commons-chain" package in the Commons Sandbox. If this actually works, two really good things might be able to happen: * It'll work for both servlets and portlets (you can see how the command implementations are being abstracted so that the chain will just do the right thing for each environment). * It is likely to be backwards compatible with Struts 1.1 as well, possibly with some restrictions yet to be discovered. The best way to get involved would be to check out CVS sources for both jakarta-struts and jakarta-commons-sandbox, become familiar with the code referenced above, and start making suggestions and improvements. A really good starting point would be portlet-specific implementations of all the commands that currently have only servlet-specific implementations. " I would recommend anyone who is interested to give feedback to the Struts committers on the struts-dev mailing list. Thanks, Mete --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
