Wha? 1) No - the action tag is useful! 2) Why? The property tag is flexible - not confusing!
WW has always been about few tags with many uses. -mike On 31/10/02 5:41 AM, "boxed" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) penned the words: > I have two suggestions for XWork that I think are very important. > > 1) Remove the action tag. > 2) The property tag does two things in WebWork, in XWork we should have two > tags, one for each thing. > > 1) The first one is simple enough. The action tag only removes the loose > coupling between the action(s) and the view, which is counterproductive. > Only reason to do this as far as I know is to remove the need to edit your > view mapping file, and this is a very bad reason. Is there some other reason > for it that I am not aware of? > > 2) In WW the property tag does two things. The first is that it acts much > like a change directory, and the second is that it prints the item you > specify. Having the same command for these totally different tasks is rather > counterintuitive and doesn't help the code readability of PropertyTag. I > propose <xw:property> and <xw:print> (or other better names if you have > them) as a replacement for the dual functionality of <ww:property>. > > // Anders Hovmöller > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future > of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community > Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork