Robert,
That's interesting, and certainly worth noting. I'll keep my eyes out for
that. I agree it sounds kind of vendor specific, but... How did your team
get around that? Or are they still battling there?
I'm curious, how did your portlets invoke the Struts actions?? Did you
write a central (controller?) portlet, and have config files indicate which
action it should call?? Did you write a portlet for each actions?? Forgive
me for prying. Can you describe the approach your team took?
Regards,
-Larry
-Original Message-
From: Robert Augustyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:29 PM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Migrating from Struts to Portlets
Larry,
We have concerted our app from Struts on Tomcat and
jboss to Struts on
Oracle Portal and jboss.
One problems which we run into was that some struts
jsp tags just would
not work.
I think this problem was Oracle Portal specific but I
do not know for
sure so this could be something to consider.
robert
-Original Message-
From: Tambascio, Larry
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:36 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Migrating from Struts to Portlets
Hi,
There's a rumbling in the not too distant future of my
application, and
it involves a portal implementation. This rumbling is
approaching more
quickly than I fear Struts 2.0 (which I'm very excited
about) is. I am
wondering if anyone else has already dealt with this
issue.
I'd like to be able to re-use my existing forms,
actions, and JSP pages
to render the portlets as much as possible. It seems
like there should
be a fairly thin layer on top of struts that adapts
the portlet
environment to struts (or vice-versa). At kind of a
low level, it seems
that having a portlet's processAction method delegate
to a specific
struts action should be easy to do. Capturing the
actionForward from it
in the request scope so that the portlet's render
method could simply
include that page (forwards apparently
non-deterministic according to
the spec) also seems relatively trivial. There would
have to be an
obvious refactoring of the JSP pages to use the
portlet tag's
actionURL to generate action URLs for forms.
So, who has converted a Struts based app to a portlet
presentation
method?? What were you able to reuse? What worked and
what didn't??
What would you do differently if you had to do it over
again?
Obviously, I'd like to minimize refactoring (perhaps
building adapters)
and maximize reuse. :-) And when Struts 2.0 DOES come
out, hopefully
I've done nothing to preclude myself from returning to
the fold, but
that's kind of a low priority. Could a custom
RequestProcessor that
also implemented the Portlet interface do the job?? I
just honestly
don't know, and am hoping to leverage some communal
experience.
Thanks,
-Larry
This email and its attachments are confidential under
applicable law are
intended for use of the senders addressee only, unless
the sender
expressly agrees otherwise, or unless a separate
written agreement
exists between
Iron Mountain and a recipient company governing
communications between
the
parties and any data that may be so transmitted.
Transmission of email
over the Internet is not a secure communications
medium. If you are
requesting or have requested the transmittal of
personal data, as
defined in applicable privacy laws, by means of email
or in an
attachment to email, you may wish to select a more
secure alternate
means of transmittal that better supports your
obligations to protect
such personal data. If the recipient of this
message is not the recipient named above, and/or you
have received this
email in error, you must take no action based on the
information in this
email. You are hereby notified that any dissemination,
misuse or copying
or
disclosure of this communication by a recipient who
has received this
message in error is strictly prohibited. If this
message is received in
error please
return this email to the sender and immediately
highlight any error in
transmittal.
Thank You
-
To unsubscribe, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
__
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway
http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/
-
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This email and its attachments are confidential under applicable law are
intended for use of the senders addressee only, unless the sender expressly
agrees otherwise, or unless a separate written agreement exists between
Iron Mountain and a recipient company governing communications between the
parties and any data that may be so transmitted. Transmission of email over
the Internet is not a secure communications
