There is some validity here... if we have a nice DTD (documented as well) and make most elements optional, then a newbie should be able to use actions.xml just as easy (or more) as views.properties (maybe more-so, since there is less ambiguity).
-Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blake Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:41 PM Subject: RE: Configuration (was RE: [OS-webwork] Webwork Security Requirements) > I don't think that complicating actions.xml is going to create problems for > new users. Adding additional complexity to it would really help most of the > people on this list. Also, creating an example that fully describes how to > create your own actions.xml would be *extremely* simple. After all, XML > files do "describe themselves," don't they? > > Michael Blake Day > Artistry Studios - e-commerce design, implementation and hosting > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:opensymphony-webwork-admin@;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of > Maurice Parker > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 1:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Configuration (was RE: [OS-webwork] Webwork Security > Requirements) > > > > > Patrick Lightbody wrote: > > >http://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2002/09/15.html > > > > > Sheesh, this looks like a usability nightmare. Have I not been clear on > my feelings about complicating the Action configuration? > > I get the impression that you are forcing more configuration on the > enduser because you found that parsing the view URL to determine if it > is a view or an action proved non-trivial. > > -Maurice > > >-Pat > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jason Carreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:30 AM > >Subject: Configuration (was RE: [OS-webwork] Webwork Security Requirements) > > > > > > > > > >>What are the current thoughts on moving to one form of configuration > >>(i.e. getting rid of views.properties and just using actions.xml)? > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Patrick Lightbody [mailto:plightbo@;cisco.com] > >>Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:24 PM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Webwork Security Requirements > >> > >> > >>Oh, good! I just thought two different ServletDispatchers would be nice > >>to offer flexibility, but maybe only one is needed. Either way, doing it > >>this way is nice also because internal actions are now not exposed at > >>all. One of these days we might want to rename views.properties, since > >>it's not views at all anyone, but action definitions. In fact, I'd be > >>all for requiring an action to be aliased before it can be used (not > >>more looking in the package). I alias all my actions before using them. > >>This sorta goes back to my original hope that configuration be > >>simplified and make much more sense in version 2.0. > >> > >>-Pat > >> > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------- > >>This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in > >>Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be > >>fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > >> > >> > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in > >Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be > >fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com > >_______________________________________________ > >Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in > Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be > fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in > Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be > fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
