RE: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-17 Thread Blake Day
ary 13, 2003 2:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote: > Some points that people seem to be forgetting: > - Xwork is in the SANDBOX and is eXperimental (if you like the X for that) > - Nothing in Xwork can't be chan

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-15 Thread Rickard Öberg
Jason Carreira wrote: I'm not as familiar with the non-common usages of ThreadLocals as you are. I understand how they can be gotten and set, but how do you get them from another thread to set into this thread, when a new thread is kicked off (or a new thread, like the event handler in Swing, is s

Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-14 Thread Peter Kelley
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 21:17, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Why does it have to be a MDB? Can't you just make a listener? What will > an MDB buy you? > In a word: transactions (oh also instance caching for tuning but that would be more than 1 word :) ) We use a lot of MDBs in our app for these reaso

RE: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-14 Thread Jason Carreira
Robert Nicholson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection > > > Why does it have to be a MDB? Can't you just make a listener? > What will > an MDB buy you? &

Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-14 Thread Hani Suleiman
n jobs asynchronously... > > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Peter Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:28 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection > >&

Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
AS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection After reading this for a while I cannot recall who asked for swing clients in the first place. I don't think they were ever a requirement. In terms of non web stuff I would like to see something that could talk to JMS in an asynchronous manner but I'm not go

RE: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-13 Thread Jason Carreira
Message- > From: Peter Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection > > > After reading this for a while I cannot recall who asked for > swing clients in the firs

Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Kelley
After reading this for a while I cannot recall who asked for swing clients in the first place. I don't think they were ever a requirement. In terms of non web stuff I would like to see something that could talk to JMS in an asynchronous manner but I'm not going to lose sleep if it's outside the s

RE: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-13 Thread Jason Carreira
> -Original Message- > From: Rickard Öberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Why is it difficult? Whenever there's a thread disconnect you > just get > the state, and then re-set it when you want to restart the execution. > What exactly is the difficulty? I'm not as familiar with the non

RE: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-13 Thread Jason Carreira
Can you explain? I'd like to know. > -Original Message- > From: Heng Sin Low [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 8:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Reflection > > > The multiple thread thing is simple/trivi

Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-13 Thread Philipp Meier
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:30:17AM +0100, Rickard Öberg wrote: > Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote: > >Some points that people seem to be forgetting: > >- Xwork is in the SANDBOX and is eXperimental (if you like the X for that) > >- Nothing in Xwork can't be changed, these are ideas, prototypes > >- Xwork

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-13 Thread Rickard Öberg
boxed wrote: The problem is not "right" or "wrong", the problem is the pro's and con's of the various approaches, and AFAICT the explicit approach has some limitations, whereas the non-explicit approach has no limitations. I can think of an example right now when the explicit solution is much mo

Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-13 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
On this I agree mate ;) Xwork will still be primarily a web framework, I think everyone is saying that. But as far as possible we should allow non web uses if we can. (Like the abstraction of session out - it's neater that way AND enables non web uses) Cheers, Mike PS For the record I've never

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-13 Thread boxed
> The problem is not "right" or "wrong", the problem is the pro's and > con's of the various approaches, and AFAICT the explicit approach has > some limitations, whereas the non-explicit approach has no limitations. I can think of an example right now when the explicit solution is much more flexib

Re: A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Rickard Öberg
Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote: Some points that people seem to be forgetting: - Xwork is in the SANDBOX and is eXperimental (if you like the X for that) - Nothing in Xwork can't be changed, these are ideas, prototypes - Xwork will be better for 'web work' than WebWork is! - Xwork will be better for 'n

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Rickard Öberg
Jason Carreira wrote: Actions were originally spec'd to have a method, execute(), with no parameters. That was back when we had ServletAware, etc., and the context information would be made available to the Action before it was executed. When it was decided to get rid of these interfaces, to decou

RE: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Heng Sin Low
s I think it would be > > unfortunate, however, considering the alternative (miss out > > on all the great new functionality) I still think it would be > > worth it, but that's just my thinking for all it's worth. > > > > /Robert > > > > -Original

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Peter Kelley
+1 for asynchronous messages On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 00:24, Rickard Öberg 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

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 10:18 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection >> >> >> I think there are two directions here and I don't see any >> easy resolution at this stage. So, yes I think two projec

A plea - WAS Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
rojects make sense. My next question is "Is > there room for these two projects at OS?" Does it make sense or will it be a > distraction since they do have overlap? Should WW move back out on its own? > > -Matt > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Rickard Öb

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Hani Suleiman
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:24 AM, Rickard Öberg wrote: 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 tha

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Patrick Lightbody
- Original Message - From: "Jason Carreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 11:04 AM Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Reflection > I'm not sure I see the disconnect here. What's so different about Xwork? Views can still be JSP

RE: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Jason Carreira
arlens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 1:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection > > > I have been following this list for quite some time with > great interest. I really like all the new ideas for XWork. I > think

RE: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Jason Carreira
people are talking about forking the code base and splitting Xwork and Webwork, then I think we should roll it back and discuss. > -Original Message- > From: matt baldree [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 10:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re:

Re: Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Robert Carlens
ickard Öberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:24:26 +0100 Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection 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

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread matt baldree
ove back out on its own? -Matt - Original Message - From: "Rickard Öberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection Erik Beeson wrote: > Rickard, as I understood, XWork was to break awa

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Heng Sin Low
I think it might be beneficial to do both xwork and webwork as separate project at this point of time. At least, people will spent less time debating at mailing list and get things done. I guess there is no right or wrong here, it is just that people have different preference and needs. For instanc

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Joseph Ottinger
What kind of real world example applications do you want? Wafer has a working webwork example... And docs? Who needs them - they're for people who aren't willing to roll their sleeves up and dig directly into the code, right? (Note droll humour.) On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Heng Sin Low wrote: > I thin

Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection

2003-01-12 Thread Rickard Öberg
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