Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-27 Thread Ted Husted
Yes, I just want to get a handle on GXP first, to see if there's any synergy between the two proposals. (Trying to get the tests to run now.) On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My hand are full for the next couple of weeks (releases at work), but > I can

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-27 Thread Musachy Barroso
My hand are full for the next couple of weeks (releases at work), but I can jump in and help from time to time. Ted, do you want get started on them? I would suggest we setup a project in the sandbox. musachy On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Jeromy Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Husted wr

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-27 Thread Rene Gielen
It's interesting to see the list of dojo sponsors and supporters (http://dojotoolkit.org/foundation) on the one side, and the slow and always API breaking development on the other. If they had a 1.0 out a year ago, along with a stable API, it might have had a chance to become something like a stand

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-25 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
- Original Message From: Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Developers List Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:38:37 AM Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin I was thinking about all this last night. One thing that might be useful is to provide enough information to i

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-25 Thread Struts Two
. - Original Message From: Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Developers List Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:38:37 AM Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin I was thinking about all this last night. One thing that might be useful is to provide

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-25 Thread Dave Newton
ation guide. Dave --- On Thu, 7/24/08, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin > To: "Struts Developers List" > Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 3:48 PM > I'd su

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-24 Thread Jeromy Evans
Ted Husted wrote: I'd suggest that we put a replacement together before pulling the Dojo plugin out of the distribution (I can help). We could at least deprecate Dojo in the meantime. -T. I can help too but I'm moving house today so may be offline for a while (it takes weeks to get a new a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-24 Thread Musachy Barroso
ate >>> additional tags to suit their needs. >>> >>> So I vote +1 for removing the existing Dojo plugin (+0 for deprecating) and >>> +1 for creating the simplistic components and example integrations. >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> --- On Tue,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-24 Thread Ted Husted
s. >> >> Dave >> >> --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> From: Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin >>> To: "Struts Developers List"

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-24 Thread Musachy Barroso
7/22/08, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin >> To: "Struts Developers List" >> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 9:34 AM >> I think D

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Newton
, 7/22/08, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin > To: "Struts Developers List" > Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 9:34 AM > I think Dave also had a JQuery

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-23 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I think that ignores the underlying complexity of developing complex RIAs today. I would take any of the apps I've developed on the job over the past 5+ years and put them up against any out there in terms of complexity... when I talk to other developers about what they're doing it's nearly al

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-23 Thread Bob Tiernay
Having a simple taglib-based approach to do some of the more common AJAX-y things, maybe some widgets here and there too, means that Java developers can leverage their existing skills without having to take the plunge into heavy client-side development, which I can say from the experience of

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Benedict
If this is the case, I would not recommend we create an "ajax" plugin, but call it the "ajax-yui" plugin or a "ajax-whatever" plugin so that people can use different ajax implementations. Paul On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Jeromy Evans < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Benedict wrote: > >> D

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Jeromy Evans
Paul Benedict wrote: Dojo 0.4.3 is old :-) I didn't know that. No one wants to move it to 1.x or wherever they are now? Paul Many have tried. In general, the effort doesn't justify the result. ie. you put a lot of effort writing new templates and tags that predominately wrap and constra

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Al Sutton
ExtJS is a big no-no in my book. To use it in a commercial project you need to buy a license, which would put off a lot of commercial customers. Personally I use YUI for two reasons; 1) It's easy to separate out and include only the parts I need in my webapp so I don't end up with war bloat.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Benedict
Dojo 0.4.3 is old :-) I didn't know that. No one wants to move it to 1.x or wherever they are now? Paul On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you could probably guess, I've had a lot of success with AjaxParts > Taglib ;) I've also had a lot of succe

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
As you could probably guess, I've had a lot of success with AjaxParts Taglib ;) I've also had a lot of success with Dojo, ExtJS, ActiveWidgets, dHTMLx and my personal favorite, DWR (I've found that DWR, plus best-of-breed widgets is all the "framework" I need, which is why I haven't posted her

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Ted Husted
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Bob Tiernay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I really don't see why even a taglib is even on the table. > > I think the issue was a "let's make some of this cool stuff really easy for > the people that don'

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Bob Tiernay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really don't see why even a taglib is even on the table. I think the issue was a "let's make some of this cool stuff really easy for the people that don't know JavaScript." To steal the phrase: now you have two problems. I'm not su

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Martin Cooper
> From: "Martin Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:36 PM > To: "Struts Developers List" > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Te

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Musachy Barroso
> Has anyone had good or bad experiences with tag-based libraries like these? > I used to maintain Ajax Tags, but I thought there were too many frameworks already and gave it away :). I haven't used any of the other ones. musachy --

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Bob Tiernay
ns logging. -- From: "Martin Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:36 PM To: "Struts Developers List" Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:5

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Piero Sartini
> What does anyone think about donating the dojo plugin to codehaus? I think > it's a better idea than letting the code go stale. You could even try > donating to the dojotoolkit project. I am not sure what you mean by donating it to codehaus. If someone wants to support the plugin he may do so u

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Musachy Barroso
That would be totally fine, but I doubt anyone would be interested in Dojo 0.4.3 at this point. musachy On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does anyone think about donating the dojo plugin to codehaus? I think > it's a better idea than letting the code

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Martin Cooper
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dojo seems to get the most lip service, but I've seen persistence > reports that YUI has broader acceptance. The thing is, it depends a whole lot on what you are doing with it. For example, the people I know who are develo

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Benedict
What does anyone think about donating the dojo plugin to codehaus? I think it's a better idea than letting the code go stale. You could even try donating to the dojotoolkit project. Paul On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 for Musachy's suggestion, and I'm

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Ted Husted
+1 for Musachy's suggestion, and I'm also at a point where I could help with the implementation. As to Ajax-enabling some of the tags, there are several tag-based Ajax libraries out there that we could look at embedding or emulating. In this case, we wouldn't be adopting a general-purpose Ajax lib

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Ted Husted
Dojo seems to get the most lip service, but I've seen persistence reports that YUI has broader acceptance. -Ted. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Isn't Dojo the defacto ajax standard on the w

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Gabriel Belingueres
Tapestry is using Dojo too [1]. I'm not developing any AJAX application so my comments could be somewhat biased, but either the dojo toolkit is used or not in upcoming S2 versions, I think it is still worthwhile providing easy to use, good looking javascript/dhtml widgets to quickly solve form inp

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't Dojo the defacto ajax standard on the web? In terms of deployments I'd put money on Prototype and/or jQuery. Not that it's a large sample size, but I don't know *anybody* using Dojo outside of S2. Dave -

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Benedict
Isn't Dojo the defacto ajax standard on the web? I know there is no such "certification" :-) but why deprecate something so popular? If anything, I would spin off the project into Codehaus and let the world continue writing it. Paul On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Dave also had a JQuery plugin somewhere, isn't that right? I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of said project. I started to convert the Dojo tags to jQuery and stopped again pretty quickly; I only had with a sin

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Lukasz Lenart
> You would have to start the tags from scratch. Very optimistic ;-) Maybe than, the jQuery is a better option to start from scratch.. Regards -- Lukasz http://www.lenart.org.pl/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Musachy Barroso
You would have to start the tags from scratch. musachy On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Lukasz Lenart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >> Disregarding what path we take, I think it is fairly obvious that the >> Dojo plugin will end up unmaintained, that's why we should users know >> that we do

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread Musachy Barroso
I think Dave also had a JQuery plugin somewhere, isn't that right? musachy On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:49 AM, alvins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1 to remove. > > Valid points raised by all. I personally use JQuery in my daily life and > have written my own tags to do these functions. I did prev

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-22 Thread alvins
+1 to remove. Valid points raised by all. I personally use JQuery in my daily life and have written my own tags to do these functions. I did previously look at the effort required to update the current tags to the latest dojo but it would be very time consuming and far easier to start from scratc

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-21 Thread Lukasz Lenart
Hi, > Disregarding what path we take, I think it is fairly obvious that the > Dojo plugin will end up unmaintained, that's why we should users know > that we do not plan on upgrading from 0.4.3. I'm just wondering, what have to be done to migrate to the latest version of Dojo toolkit? I'm not usi

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-21 Thread Musachy Barroso
I am not sure about that approach. On one hand it is very "strutsish", in that is supports many ways of doing the same thing, and provides ways to extend what is provided, on the other hand, I think we should learn from other frameworks and just don't give users that many options, for they can be c

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-21 Thread Jeromy Evans
Musachy Barroso wrote: With all the problems/questions and time that the ajax tags have caused, and not having any takers on porting to the latest Dojo release. I would propose to deprecate, or even remove the Dojo plugin, or at least let users know that we will not be upgrading to a newer Dojo v

RE: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-21 Thread Karr, David
> -Original Message- > From: Musachy Barroso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:36 AM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin > > With all the problems/questions and time that the ajax tags > have caused, and not having a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-21 Thread Miguel
I have some code using jquery that submits a form using jquery and fits the returned result in a target div, and a A tag that does the same. Both codes don't have topics or any other sofistication. In fact, using jquery is a breeze (and i feel dojo an *extremely* complicated thing). Making the jque

Re: [PROPOSAL] Deprecate or remove Dojo plugin

2008-07-21 Thread James Holmes
+1. I'd rather us not lose the AJAX tags, but rather implement with something more lightweight like Prototype, jQuery, or similar that's much easier to work with. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With all the problems/questions and time that the ajax