Re: Short term plans

2003-03-04 Thread Ted Husted
Redundant only if you're using the appropriate prerequisites. As a practical matter, not everyone can migrate as quickly as they might like. In the 2.x series, the JSTL argument would have some technical merit. In the 1.x series, it is not applicable to everyone in our target base. Of course,

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-04 Thread Eddie Bush
Thought are welcome, patches are appreciated. Test cases are ... really nice :-) If there's one thing I've found, persistence (polite persistence) is a very good thing to have as well ;-) John Yu wrote: At 08:31 pm 01-03-03, you wrote: First, David was probably trying to be helpful. (Why rei

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-03 Thread David Graham
Summing up, is it fair to say that "an enhancement request which comes with a patch (and possibly some test cases) will be given relatively higher priority, regardless whether its functionality overlaps with other technologies"? (And "persistence counts as well.") I personally won't commit any c

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-03 Thread John Yu
At 08:31 pm 01-03-03, you wrote: First, David was probably trying to be helpful. (Why reinvent the wheel?) No dispute about that! David's and other committers' dedication of time and energy is much appreciated. But to answer your question, I think the litmus test would be whether there is a wor

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-03 Thread John Yu
At 01:36 am 02-03-03, you wrote: The test I use is this: Does the requested feature exist in JSTL? If so, don't duplicate the effort in Struts. This is not just my opinion, it has been discussed among the committers before. I don't think people requesting enhancements or patches realize the am

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-03 Thread John Yu
At 03:15 am 02-03-03, you wrote: My personal preferences on the immediate future are to make Struts 1.2 an evolutionary path for existing 1.0 and 1.1 users, but adopt a "release often" model of 1.2.x releases like what the Apache HTTPD server does, and what Tomcat 4.1 and 5.0 have adopted -- relea

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-02 Thread Eddie Bush
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Ted Husted wrote: Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:56:04 -0500 From: Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Short term plans Craig R

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-02 Thread Eddie Bush
Thank you for reminding us of that - seems (nearly) everyone (except you, I, and [ probably still ] Craig) wants to do that in 1.2.0 and that was, at the time we decided to make 1.2.x move to an incremental build system, determined to be more than 1.2.0 should entail. ... and folks wonder why

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread Niall Pemberton
The sentiments are good but the reality is sometimes different. I submitted two sets of logic tags in May 2001 which provided switch/case and if/and/or/else logic. They were basically wrappers for the existing struts logic tags. They were rejected at the time because the JSTL would be providing t

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Ted Husted wrote: > Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:56:04 -0500 > From: Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Short term plans >

RE: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread James Mitchell
d Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 6:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Short term plans > > > How about we solve the 7 remaining 1.1 bugs first ;-). > > Dave > > > > >From: Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &g

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread David Graham
How about we solve the 7 remaining 1.1 bugs first ;-). Dave From: Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Short term plans Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:56:04 -05

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread Ted Husted
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: My personal preferences on the immediate future are to make Struts 1.2 an evolutionary path for existing 1.0 and 1.1 users, but adopt a "release often" model of 1.2.x releases like what the Apache HTTPD server does, and what Tomcat 4.1 and 5.0 have adopted -- release a ne

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread Ted Husted
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: http://www.geocities.com/fullback_21_csca/index5.htmlhttp://www.geocities.com/fullback_21_csca/index5.htmlhttp://www.geocities.com/fullback_21_csca/index5.html * I'm interested in decoupling the controller part of Struts from its current heavy reliance on the Servlet AP

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, John Yu wrote: > Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 16:34:07 +0800 > From: John Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Short term plans > > A

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread David Graham
standard taglib. David From: John Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Short term plans Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 16:34:07 +0800 At 11:46 am 01-03-03, y

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread David Graham
The plan is to change the base servlet requirement in 2.0 not 1.2. David From: Vic Cekvenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Short term plans Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 07:37:38 -0500 Yes, it

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread Vic Cekvenich
ices" in 1.2. Alternative? Struts 1.2 in 18 months? .V Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, David Graham wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:50:08 -0700 From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PR

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread Ted Husted
First, David was probably trying to be helpful. (Why reinvent the wheel?) But to answer your question, I think the litmus test would be whether there is a working patch annexed. All anyone has said is that since the attention of the Committers in their own work is likely to be on other technolo

Re: Short term plans

2003-03-01 Thread John Yu
At 11:46 am 01-03-03, you wrote: JSTL (and JavaServer Faces, when it becomes available) require Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2, so they are not even an option for a very significant portion of the Struts user community. Thus, it would be irresponsible to abandon our focus on ensuring the quality of the S

Re: Short term plans

2003-02-28 Thread David Graham
uts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Short term plans Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:46:27 -0800 (PST) On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, David Graham wrote: > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:50:08 -0700 > From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL

Re: Short term plans

2003-02-28 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, David Graham wrote: > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:50:08 -0700 > From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Short term plans > > The taglibs are a heavi

Re: Short term plans

2003-02-28 Thread David Graham
The taglibs are a heavily used feature. We get a lot of bug reports on them so the tests are badly needed. There is no doubt that we should use JSTL but at this point not everyone has that option. David With respect, consider how much time struts-devs should spend on tags, I kind of agree wi

Re: Short term plans

2003-02-28 Thread Vic Cekvenich
With respect, consider how much time struts-devs should spend on tags, I kind of agree with those that say slowly move them over to taglibs and separate jar away from "core" struts, for example if JSTL can do it. Of course I know, open source means donating contributors kind of get to work on w

RE: Short term plans

2003-02-28 Thread Karr, David
> -Original Message- > From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > My plans are to finish up html this weekend, and tiles, upload, and > validator by the end of next week. After that I hope to get all the > nested tags done between 3/15 and 3/22, then move on to the struts-el > tag

Re: Short term plans

2003-02-28 Thread David Graham
Sounds great James! Thanks a bunch for doing the tests. David From: "James Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Short term plans

Short term plans

2003-02-28 Thread James Mitchell
Committers/Developers As most of you know, I've been adding Cactus tests to try and cover (hopefully) all the core taglibs with every conceivable combination of attributes. Considering the hierarchy of how the tags are implemented, someone might say that a lot of these tests are redundant, but

RE: Comptability of JSR 127 and Struts [Was: SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-16 Thread Nicholas Lesiecki
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:41 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: Comptability of JSR 127 and Struts [Was: SHORT TERM PLANS] "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > I've got one more useful new goody on my workbench - an ActionForm > implemen

Re: Comptability of JSR 127 and Struts [Was: SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-15 Thread Ted Husted
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > I've got one more useful new goody on my workbench - an ActionForm > implementation that uses the new DynaBean APIs in the Commons version of > BeanUtils that let you define form beans without having to write all the > properties in individual bean classes. Bryan Fi

Re: Comptability of JSR 127 and Struts [Was: SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-15 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, John Yu wrote: > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:13:47 +0800 > From: John Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Comptability of JSR 127

Re: Comptability of JSR 127 and Struts [Was: SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-14 Thread John Yu
opers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Comptability of JSR 127 and Struts [Was: SHORT TERM PLANS] > > > > I'm wondering how JSR-127 will fit with Struts. > > > >It's too early to know much, bu

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread Martin Cooper
the release process, and will have very little impact on the way people build Struts today.) -- Martin Cooper - Original Message - From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002

Re: Comptability of JSR 127 and Struts [Was: SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, John Yu wrote: > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:13:34 +0800 > From: John Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Comptability of JSR 127 and Strut

Comptability of JSR 127 and Struts [Was: SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread John Yu
I'm wondering how JSR-127 will fit with Struts. While it's beyond my comprehension how JSR-127 will look like and offer, I have this gut feeling that there is an architectural impedance. Frankly, it's still vague to me what and how JSR-127 tries to achieve and I always thought the JSR-127 effo

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread Ted Husted
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > What about the stuff that's shared across multiple taglibs > (org.apache.struts.util.*, org.apache.struts.action.*, and so on)? I > haven't checked them all, but I'd be surprised if *any* of the tag > libraries can stand on their own without needing the proposed > s

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Martin Cooper wrote: > Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:16:29 -0800 > From: Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread Ted Husted
> Take a squizz at the tutorials I put up on my nested extension page. http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=squizz :) -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Building Java web applications with Struts. -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ -- To un

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread Ted Husted
Arron Bates wrote: > PS: Any tag extensions planned for the "Short Term Plans"? :) I think most of us are waiting on the JSTL. What we have now seems sufficient, especially in a MVC environment, and I would be concerned about doing anything that would heighten the migration path.

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread Arron Bates
hat the effort in creating tutorials in such a manner is beneficial. It does add to the development time however. All that other stuff in the blank.war etc... blank.war was how I first started hacking Struts, so I'm +1 on keeping that system alive. Arron. PS: Any tag extensions planne

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread Ted Husted
Martin Cooper wrote: > I'm planning on making some other changes to the Struts build process in the > near future, and I could certainly roll these in if people think it would be > desirable. Here's a different but related issue. For the example applications, I'm wondering if we want to adopt a

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-13 Thread Ted Husted
I'm definately +1 on a core Strut JAR. I'm alo +1 on a struts-template.jar. We might consider moving this to contrib, since many people are migrating to Tiles. I could help with that if it matters, or just update the documentation when we are through. I'm +0 on either putting the others (bean,

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2002-01-12 Thread Martin Cooper
t; Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS] > Ooops, one more. > > * Adjust the build process so that there is a struts-core.jar and a > struts-tags.jar > > > Ted Husted wrote: > > > > So to wrap up several outstanding threads, he

Re: [SHORT TERM PLANS]

2001-12-15 Thread Ted Husted
Ooops, one more. * Adjust the build process so that there is a struts-core.jar and a struts-tags.jar Ted Husted wrote: > > So to wrap up several outstanding threads, here's what is on my > near-term agenda > > * Commit the initial ContextHelper to ActionServlet. > > * Commit the InvokeActi

[SHORT TERM PLANS]

2001-12-15 Thread Ted Husted
So to wrap up several outstanding threads, here's what is on my near-term agenda * Commit the initial ContextHelper to ActionServlet. * Commit the InvokeAction class to ActionServet. * Commit a SuperForm base class to action, for discussion purposes. * Develop a "smart" ActionForward class,