Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-20 Thread Peter Pilgrim
Ted Husted wrote: We might want to keep a straight-line mapping in the naming conventions, where OpenSymphony - Apache Struts WebWork - Action A good reason to prefer action-default.xml to struts-default.xml is that we want people to be able to use Struts Action 1 and Struts Action 2 in the

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Claus Ibsen
Bob this is really a great list for doing some house cleaning. - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=26278messageID=52211#52211

RE: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Lee Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:56 PM To: Struts Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0 On 4/18/06, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would tend

RE: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Konstantin Priblouda
--- Pilgrim, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a new user of WebWork 2.2 I dont see much of XWork except for the xwork.xml file. So I agree totally. This is not to say that as an advanced user, one day I might decide to exploit an XWork feature. Actions itself, parameter setting /

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Jason Carreira
I've added my comments inline... As an aside, any chance of us getting Confluence set up? It's painful going back to a regular wiki :-) On 4/18/06, Bob Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll set up the rough spots page. http://wiki.apache.org/struts/RoughSpots?action=show Bob

Rough Spots (was: XWork and Struts Action 2.0)

2006-04-19 Thread Gabe
Carreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dev@struts.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:38:10 AM Subject: Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0 I've added my comments inline... As an aside, any chance of us getting Confluence set up? It's painful going back to a regular wiki :-) On 4/18/06, Bob Lee [EMAIL

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Patrick Lightbody
OK, I read this whole thread and will provide my general comments here and my specific comments about Bob's wiki entry on the wiki itself. First, we need to recognize there are a few different proposals here: 1) Drop XW directly in to WW (ie: fork). This is Bob's proposal. 2) Move XW over to

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Don Brown
Patrick Lightbody wrote: We can definitely start by reading struts.xml rather than xwork.xml. +1, works great with struts-default.xml Don - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Ted Husted
We might want to keep a straight-line mapping in the naming conventions, where OpenSymphony - Apache Struts WebWork - Action A good reason to prefer action-default.xml to struts-default.xml is that we want people to be able to use Struts Action 1 and Struts Action 2 in the same application

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Bob Lee
I vote for struts-action.xml. Bob On 4/19/06, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We might want to keep a straight-line mapping in the naming conventions, where OpenSymphony - Apache Struts WebWork - Action A good reason to prefer action-default.xml to struts-default.xml is that we want

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Don Brown
Bob Lee wrote: I vote for struts-action.xml. +1 Don Bob On 4/19/06, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We might want to keep a straight-line mapping in the naming conventions, where OpenSymphony - Apache Struts WebWork - Action A good reason to prefer action-default.xml to

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread James Mitchell
+1 to your +1 -- James Mitchell On Apr 19, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Don Brown wrote: Bob Lee wrote: I vote for struts-action.xml. +1 Don Bob On 4/19/06, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We might want to keep a straight-line mapping in the naming conventions, where OpenSymphony -

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Ian Roughley
+1 for struts-action.xml Bob Lee wrote: I vote for struts-action.xml. Bob On 4/19/06, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We might want to keep a straight-line mapping in the naming conventions, where OpenSymphony - Apache Struts WebWork - Action A good reason to prefer

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Ricardo Lecheta
+1 for struts-action.xml - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=26278messageID=52352#52352 - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Claus Ibsen
+1 struts-action.xml - Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=26278messageID=52373#52373 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Bob Lee
On 4/19/06, Patrick Lightbody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Drop XW directly in to WW (ie: fork). This is Bob's proposal. Just to clarify what I already said on the wiki page, I propose that we make XWork an implementation detail, not part of our API. This means creating a thin abstraction layer

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Ted Husted
On 4/17/06, Gabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's telling that the lion's share of code related issues we've discussed so far about Struts 2 on this list (Annotation driven actions, pluggability of expression language, use of dev mode, etc., etc.) are really issues that should be brought to

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Ian Roughley
Don Brown wrote: Bob Lee wrote: Also, how do the tags relate to JSTL? Are we just going to ignore JSTL? Or are we going to use JSTL for JSP with some WebWork-specific extensions and the WebWork tags for other template engines? I personally prefer the latter option. Struts has always tried to

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Don Brown
Ian Roughley wrote: Don Brown wrote: Bob Lee wrote: Also, how do the tags relate to JSTL? Are we just going to ignore JSTL? Or are we going to use JSTL for JSP with some WebWork-specific extensions and the WebWork tags for other template engines? I personally prefer the latter option.

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Jason Carreira
This doesn't concern XWork itself. Huh? I thought we were talking about moving it? The question is can Struts continue to depend on XWork externally and actually be cohesive? I want one comprehensive manual. I don't necesarily want the servlet API to be readily available, but when I

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Bob Lee
On 4/18/06, Jason Carreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This doesn't concern XWork itself. Huh? I thought we were talking about moving it? I didn't say anything about moving it. Okay, so make your Action implement ServletContextAware, ServletRequestAware, etc. I was specifically thinking

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Jason Carreira
On 4/18/06, Jason Carreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This doesn't concern XWork itself. Huh? I thought we were talking about moving it? I didn't say anything about moving it. Ahh, you're talking about forking it and copying the source into Struts Action 2? -(as many as I'm allowed

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Bob Lee
On 4/18/06, Jason Carreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahh, you're talking about forking it and copying the source into Struts Action 2? No... but I do think we should shield Struts users from the XWork API/documentation as much as possible (i.e. a lot more than WebWork does). I _suppose_ it's

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Ted Husted
On 4/18/06, Bob Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No... but I do think we should shield Struts users from the XWork API/documentation as much as possible (i.e. a lot more than WebWork does). I _suppose_ it's nice that you can drop down to XWork and do non-web things, but I don't think we need to

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Gabe
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:24:06 PM Subject: Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0 I would tend to disagree. I feel that the separate of concerns between XWork and a web application front end are important. I don't believe it would be helpful to start lumping things back together again. I would

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Bob Lee
On 4/18/06, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would tend to disagree. I feel that the separate of concerns between XWork and a web application front end are important. I don't believe it would be helpful to start lumping things back together again. Providing Struts users with a complete,

[action2] Java 5 support (was XWork and Struts Action 2.0)

2006-04-18 Thread Don Brown
This has been a topic I've been wondering about for a while: would it be possible to move to Java 5, then use a tool such as Retroweaver [1] to provide Java 1.4 support? I'm not prepared to completely abandon Java 1.4 users, but Bob does make some good points regarding the concern for falling

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Ted Husted
On 4/18/06, Bob Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without saying whether we should support 1.4 or not, realistically we're talking about Struts 2.0.0 in production some time after August depending how long it takes users to port their applications, not right now, at this moment, right? JDK 1.6

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Bob Lee
You mean we have committers who aren't running 1.5 yet? For shame. ;) I'll set up the rough spots page. Bob On 4/18/06, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When a committer votes +1 on a release, it's taken to mean that the committer is using the release in production his or herself, and that

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Bob Lee
On 4/18/06, Bob Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll set up the rough spots page. http://wiki.apache.org/struts/RoughSpots?action=show Bob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Don Brown
This is a great list, thanks for taking the time to put it up. I may not agree with everything, but it is sure to spark conversation :) Don Bob Lee wrote: On 4/18/06, Bob Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll set up the rough spots page. http://wiki.apache.org/struts/RoughSpots?action=show

XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-17 Thread Bob Lee
What's the plan for XWork? I would recommend against keeping it as a third party dependency and for copying the necessary code over into the Struts repository and refactoring it (clean up exception handling, remove statics, better integrate APIs, etc.). We could keep the Java packages separate (if

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-17 Thread Jason Carreira
-1 to moving it over. XWork is not just part of WebWork, it's used other places. You're more than welcome to help do the cleanup in XWork for a 2.0 release. - Posted via Jive Forums

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-17 Thread Don Brown
Whether XWork is moved to Apache or not, I 100% agree the docs and API should be in a single location. WebWork has been doing this for a while, and I think we should continue the practice. The relationship between Action 2 and XWork could be like Action 1 and Commons Validator - the user

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-17 Thread Bob Lee
This doesn't concern XWork itself. The question is can Struts continue to depend on XWork externally and actually be cohesive? I want one comprehensive manual. I don't necesarily want the servlet API to be readily available, but when I need it, I'd prefer not to go through a ThreadLocal. Having

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-17 Thread Don Brown
Bob Lee wrote: Also, how do the tags relate to JSTL? Are we just going to ignore JSTL? Or are we going to use JSTL for JSP with some WebWork-specific extensions and the WebWork tags for other template engines? I personally prefer the latter option. Struts has always tried to work well with

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-17 Thread Gabe
this, i was told to get the XWork developers involved, so I think I will go do that now. ;-) Gabe - Original Message From: Jason Carreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dev@struts.apache.org Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 4:37:59 PM Subject: Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0 -1 to moving it over