Re: i18n and Resources
Ted Husted (a Struts commtter) and several others are trying to put together a proposal for a code sharing subproject/repository/something on the GENERAL list right now -- this sounds like another candidate for code that could be shared once the infrastructure of the sharing is set up. I've been following it, I've just been quiet :-) Jason, does this also relate to the DbResources discussion recently on VELOCITY-DEV, or is that something different? A little different I think: that was more about velocity related tools, or even webapp related tools, versus general tools like a services framework or db connection pool. I guess it's time for me to jump into the discussion of sharing tools :-) If I can I would like to share an introspector between struts and velocity. I have a feeling that the structs introspector is more complete so I would be all for using the struts introspector and it can probably be done :-) jvz.
RE: i18n and Resources
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Schachter, Michael wrote: Jason, I don't see why not, the general idea is the same. Maybe there should be an org.apache.services package and a separate repository for this sort of thing? The kind of thing where Turbine and Struts committers can both participate? There's a discussion on the general list about general tools and frameworks. I guess we should jump in there as there is a discussion in progress! If there was collaboration, I'd prefer it not to be Struts or Turbine based. A framework where the community at large decides on how the interface methods are declared would be a powerful thing, and shouldn't be interfered with because different design methodologies for web applications cause different projects to exist. I mean, this is open source. There's a services framework in Avalon and there is one in Turbine. I'm all for melding them into a single framework. There's probably good things about both of them, I am only familiar with the Turbine service framework, but I will be looking at the Avalon way soon! jvz.
Re: i18n and Resources
I guess it's time for me to jump into the discussion of sharing tools :-) If I can I would like to share an introspector between struts and velocity. I have a feeling that the structs introspector is more complete so I would be all for using the struts introspector and it can probably be done :-) It should be feasible to share this. The needs look to be reasonably similar. I recently refactored this family of classes to have no dependencies on other Struts APIs (or even on servlet APIs for that matter). Future enhancement plans include support for PropertyEditor classes (to let apps customize the property--String translations necessary when going to and from an HTML page) and bean properties that are Collections (treating them sort of like indexed or array-based properties), which would also benefit both Velocity and Struts. I think it's totally feasible. The idea of a pluggable introspector came up on the vel-dev list a couple weeks ago and that's probably a good idea and if that were done then we could probably share the introspector that's in struts. Velocity has some non-standard behavior like picking values out of Maps, but the introspector proper could probably be shared without much work. If I could get the struts introspector working in velocity maybe we could make that the first tool placed in the org.apache.util package! :-) We'll show them we can play nice ;-) jvz.
