+1 for asynchronous messages On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 00:24, Rickard �berg wrote: > Erik Beeson wrote: > > Rickard, as I understood, XWork was to break away from J2EE, hence > > removing "web" from the name. If new versions with strong web ties are > > going to remain, shouldn't they remain under the original WebWork name? > > That is something I wanted to gauge by my last couple of emails. I > personally do not believe (at this point) that making the web part > "optional" is going to work very well. I certainly don't believe that it > is going to be feasible, or even a good idea, to make a framework that > allows code to be written for both Swing and the web. They're different > beasts with different requirements, with completely different thinking > behind how code gets written. We have a lot of Swing code in our > project, and when I look at it I simply don't see how something like > XWork would fit in, or why it would be useful. > > What *is* useful is to allow actions to be called without a servlet > environment, but more or less *only* for testing/debugging purposes. > Executing actions as a response to asynchronous messages could work too. > But that's about it. I do not believe that actions (except for maybe 1% > of special cases) can be reused in so different spaces. I remain open to > the *possibility* of it, but so far I just haven't seen it. > > So, given all of this, my resignation from XWork still holds. The > requirements that have been voiced the last few days are not mine, and I > don't think they're compatible with my goals, at least not without > serious compromises that will only hurt the end result. The question > then becomes: would it be useful to do *both* XWork and WebWork, but as > separate projects with these different goals? > > /Rickard -- Peter Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Moveit Pty Ltd
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