RE: [AXIS4STRUTS]Generating XML from Struts JSP

2003-01-28 Thread Mike Oliver
The JavaWorld article is indeed pretty good, except for the predating of the XHMTL tag in the struts-html tag library. Also it seems to me that the meat of the servlet they use in their example code could be encapsulated in a single custom tag that inserted the xml in the output. So if you take t

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS]Generating XML from Struts JSP

2003-01-28 Thread Mike Oliver
4-1036 -----Original Message- From: Mike Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 7:30 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS]Generating XML from Struts JSP Craig, Excellent! That leads to the not so trivial, for Axis4Struts to wor

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Oliver
Hal, I started this thread thinking not in terms of a holistic optimal architecture but a simple lightweight generic Axis access method. I completely concur with you and others that if requirements drive a ground up architectural integration of a combination of User Access and Application access

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
Developers List Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 22:41, Mike Oliver wrote: > Oh and BTW I believe you are taking a too narrow view of VIEW, so at > least on that point we disagree. I would define view as the > presentation layer as you do, but the consume

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
o some of these issues. :) I could be missing the point. Most of my comments are from an XML-RPC perspective, where types are more rigid. Document type services may be more flexible. On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 18:51, Mike Oliver wrote: > Ben, > > When I say, "An Actor posts a request

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
pes are more rigid. Document type services may be more flexible. On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 18:51, Mike Oliver wrote: > Ben, > > When I say, "An Actor posts a request to Struts, the data passed in the > request is used to determine what action to take, execute the action and &g

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
Ben, When I say, "An Actor posts a request to Struts, the data passed in the request is used to determine what action to take, execute the action and return a response to the requesting Actor". In the above statement am I talking about a User on a Browser or an Application as the "Actor"? If

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
One of the biggest benefits from doing Axis4Struts is that we all learn something and find other ways of doing things, so when presented with a problem we have knowledge and tools that enable us to solve the problem. I don't disagree with you, I started this thread because I saw a need and have us

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
- From: Benjamin Tomasini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:23 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out Thanks... I think the interaction with Flash, et. al. could be a big deal. [Mike Oliver>>] Me thinks you think I think

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
Me too, but way down the road, perhaps when you have decided what will go into Struts 2.0 in the form of Alternative Transports, from JMS, to RPC to HTTP to SOAP, etc. For now just an easy standard way to access struts via Axis seems valuable enough and small enough to avoid paralysis. Michael Ol

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
I think you are quite right in that if you are building some kinds of applications you might want to make the Axis layer integration at another level, and not use Axis4Struts, but on the other hand if you have 95% of your application accessors via users on web browsers and 5% a subset of requests f

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
David, I think it safe to say that many are probably already returning XML with Style sheets from Struts. That being the case I see little difference between the response of a Web Browser action request being an XML/XSLT page or a SOAP Client getting a response with an XML SOAP Response except of

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
benefit for Axis. Web Services have much promise, when applied to the right problem. [Mike Oliver>>] And Axis4Struts is meant only to make it easier and more standardized to access Struts applications in the case where you NEED both a Browser UI and an Axis SOAP/RPC Client to access the same bu

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
If I the project had a motto it would be..."In the end, the Web Service is just another View in the Model-View-Controller architecture. The value of building this is that this "View" allows Struts Model and Controller components to be accessed by a much broader range of clients than currently." Mi

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
Thanks Kevin, good start! I didn't want to sour the pool with my thoughts on these questions up front but I will, rest assured...;-) Michael Oliver AppsAsPeers LLC 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Phone:(520)574-1150 Fax:(520)844-1036 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

[AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
If we start with the idea [Kevin's suggestion] that on the Axis side we develop a Web Service that accepts SOAP Requests with an XML payload and spins that payload into an HTTP POST/GET to a Struts Application as if that POST or GET was coming from a Web Browser. Then we need not make any changes

[AXIS4STRUTS] Axis4Struts package names

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Oliver
Ok, thanks for the info. I was just overwhelmed with all these axis emails. Can we agree that axis emails be prefixed with [AXIS] so we can filter appropriately? David >From: "Mike Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" &

RE: Axis4Struts package names

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Oliver
Craig asked us to discuss the Struts side here. I suppose when the SourceForge Project gets rolling, we will have some threads here (struts specific), some on the SF Project forums for details regarding the play things and even some on the axis-dev and axis-user lists as appropriate. Michael Oliv

RE: Axis4Struts package names

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Oliver
g a "org.apache" name may seem presumptuous - but if the Struts developers don't mind having this project use org.apache.struts.axis (or org.apache.struts.anything...) then that's probably as good as anything. Comments? "Mike Oliver"

RE: Axis4Struts package names

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Oliver
xis4struts. If you're planning on making axis4struts either a contribution to struts or integrate it with struts you should use org.apache.struts.axis. David >From: "Mike Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL P

RE: Axis4Struts package names

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Oliver
too bulky and cheesy. Why not something >elegant like org.apache.struts.axis? > >Mark > >-Original Message- >From: Mike Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 2:08 PM > >Before we start prototyping components for the marriage of Axis

RE: First Topic for discussion on Axis4Struts

2003-01-20 Thread Mike Oliver
Yup just brainstorming at this point, thanks. Michael Oliver AppsAsPeers LLC 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Phone:(520)574-1150 Fax:(520)844-1036 -Original Message- From: David Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

RE: First Topic for discussion on Axis4Struts

2003-01-20 Thread Mike Oliver
se some business logic through a Web Service to some non-java client (or even a non-http Java client), then this gives you a way to do that. [Mike Oliver>>] conversely if you start with a web service and have a need to build a Struts User Interface to some or all of it you would put Axis be

RE: First Topic for discussion on Axis4Struts

2003-01-20 Thread Mike Oliver
on Axis4Struts > Thanks Kevin, > > I agree from a 30,000' point of view. See my comments below. > Thanks Mike - at least there's a basis to begin more discussions now! > > > http://www.strutskickstart.com > [Mike Oliver>>] BTW Bought the book.

RE: First Topic for discussion on Axis4Struts

2003-01-20 Thread Mike Oliver
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Axis4Struts package names

2003-01-19 Thread Mike Oliver
Before we start prototyping components for the marriage of Axis to Struts why don't we decide on the package path. It should be obvious IMHO that it should be related to the package path for Struts but unique. So I propose a root to the package path at: org.apache.struts.axis4struts

RE: Axis/SOAP proposal for Struts

2003-01-18 Thread Mike Oliver
. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 2:33 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Axis/SOAP proposal for Struts On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Mike Oliver wrote: > Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:14:19 -0700 > From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-T

First Topic for discussion on Axis4Struts

2003-01-18 Thread Mike Oliver
And if you (or any of the Tucson JUG) want to contribute just let me know and I will add you in. http://sourceforge.net/projects/axis4struts/ And Warner if you want to contribute you can take the task of creating a snazzy Home page for: http://axis4struts.sourceforge.net You will get a lot of e

RE: [VOTE] Declare Struts 1.1b3 as Struts 1.1 RC1

2003-01-17 Thread Mike Oliver
+1 Michael Oliver AppsAsPeers LLC 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Phone:(520)574-1150 Fax:(520)844-1036 -Original Message- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 6:14 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: [VOTE] Declare Struts 1.1

FW: SourceForge.net Axis4Struts Project Approved

2003-01-17 Thread Mike Oliver
Ok here we go, gotta go buy Kevin's book. Michael Oliver AppsAsPeers LLC 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Phone:(520)574-1150 Fax:(520)844-1036 -Original Message- From: SourceForge.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: Struts UML diagrams

2002-07-09 Thread Mike Oliver
Oh YES! I too would be very much interested in these. Ollie At 04:50 PM 7/9/2002 +0200, you wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a specification document for my struts application, > and I am searching diagrams (class diagram, collaboration diagram, > sequence diagram)

Re: [PROPOSAL] Using Commons file upload implementation

2002-07-07 Thread Mike Oliver
I couldn't agree more, having used the O'Reilly multipart libraries with a lot of effort this would be a big win for those of us building document oriented systems on Struts. Ollie At 08:49 PM 7/7/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Although several bugs have been fixed in the Struts multipart handling si

Re: JBuilder development of struts and web.xml

2001-04-16 Thread Mike Oliver
t; I personally gave up on the built-in Tomcat that JBuilder 4 provides > (3.0 I think), and I build one of 3.3 head, 3.2, or 4.0 head, and just > add it to the project explicitly, and then debug through it. > > Scott Sanders > > Mike Oliver wrote: > > >> Hi, my team

Re: JBuilder development of struts and web.xml

2001-04-16 Thread Mike Oliver
tomcat server.xml > Are all of your file paths set up correctly? I get no errors when I do a make or a build from JBuilder. I have set the context path to /DocumentOEC which is the subdirectory under tomcat/webapps/ where I root everything. > > > Mike Oliver wrote: > > >>

Re: JBuilder development of struts and web.xml

2001-04-16 Thread Mike Oliver
]> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: Re: JBuilder development of struts and web.xml > Mike Oliver wrote: > > >> Do you mean you used the run configuration? > >> > > Yes. That is exactly what I do. > > Scott > > >

Re: JBuilder development of struts and web.xml

2001-04-16 Thread Mike Oliver
lder 4 provides > (3.0 I think), and I build one of 3.3 head, 3.2, or 4.0 head, and just > add it to the project explicitly, and then debug through it. > > Scott Sanders > > Mike Oliver wrote: > > >> Hi, my team and I are building a system on top of struts and are excit

JBuilder development of struts and web.xml

2001-04-16 Thread Mike Oliver
Hi, my team and I are building a system on top of struts and are excited about what we see and think we can do. The first problem we have encountered is the use of web.xml to map the *.do requests to the action servlet. Ok that works fine on jakarta-tomcat in the webapps, but it doesn't work in

Re: development issues

2001-03-27 Thread Mike Oliver
requiring two languages to support one application is not a good thing in a commercial application, but there may be instances where existing perl applications need to interoperate with struts applications so it is a fait de accompli (sp?), the 'right' thing is to accomodate BOTH. M

Re: development issues

2001-03-27 Thread Mike Oliver
We too are in favor of regex validation in Struts and will participate in development and testing. Mike Oliver Morningstar Systems. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:36 AM Subject: RE: development issues

Re(2): JSP Components

2001-03-13 Thread Mike Oliver
We are taking a slightly different approach that you may like. We are overriding ActionServlet to add two hooks, a //execute BeforeAction event queue if (!processBeforeAction(mapping, formInstance, request,

PROPOSAL loosely coupled events execution and personalization.

2001-02-22 Thread Mike Oliver
We are incorporating Struts into our product plans because the MVC design pattern and use of servlets and JSP are so similar to what we were already designing that it would be foolish to re-invent the wheel. However our requirements exceed the Struts requirements in the area of the ActionServlet