RE: Redux: Actions and business logic, or Using Struts with the Rational Unified Process

2002-11-12 Thread John Bigboote
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:04 AM > > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > Subject: RE: Redux: Actions and business logic, or > Using Struts with the > > Rational Unified Process > > > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

RE: Redux: Actions and business logic, or Using Struts with the Rational Unified Process

2002-11-12 Thread Robert Taylor
your business tier. Sorry for butting in, but that's just my 2 cents. robert > -Original Message- > From: John Bigboote [mailto:y0yodyne@;yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:04 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Redux: Actions and business lo

RE: Redux: Actions and business logic, or Using Struts with the Rational Unified Process

2002-11-11 Thread John Bigboote
James, Thanks for clarifying things for me. John --- James Higginbotham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > > > is an MVC framework. Granted, while it tends > toward > > the presentation layer, it does provide mechanisms > > that venture into the problem domain, like > FormBeans. > > Not qu

RE: Redux: Actions and business logic, or Using Struts with the Rational Unified Process

2002-11-11 Thread James Higginbotham
John, > is an MVC framework. Granted, while it tends toward > the presentation layer, it does provide mechanisms > that venture into the problem domain, like FormBeans. Not quite sure what you mean here, as FormBeans are simply javabeans that are used to store the user's input form data before i

RE: Redux: Actions and business logic, or Using Struts with the Rational Unified Process

2002-11-11 Thread John Bigboote
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > example apps, so I'm interested in how Struts > > > maps to the contructs of RUP. > > RUP is a software methodology framework, so I > wouldn't consider Struts something that maps to the > constructs of RUP as much as an enabler technology > designing maintain

RE: Redux: Actions and business logic, or Using Struts with the Rational Unified Process

2002-11-10 Thread James Higginbotham
Comments inline. > > Quite short on details, but the report recommends > that "the Struts framework should be used to implement > > the interaction between the presentation and business > layers". > > Comments? True. > > example apps, so I'm interested in how Struts maps > > to > > the con

Re: Redux: Actions and business logic, or Using Struts with the Rational Unified Process

2002-11-10 Thread John Bigboote
A follow-up to my initial post: I should have mentioned that a search of the Rational site yielded the following resource: http://www.therationaledge.com/content/sep_02/m_bestPractices_pr.jsp Quite short on details, but the report recommends that "the Struts framework should be used to imple

Redux: Actions and business logic, or Using Struts with the Rational Unified Process

2002-11-10 Thread John Bigboote
My company operates an electronic marketplace very much like a stock exchange. As such, there are a myriad of rules and regulations that govern its operation. We have adopted the Rational Unified Process and, not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I'm exploring how Struts would fit into an architectu

RE: actions and business logic

2002-02-26 Thread Jesse Alexander (KADA 12)
Jesse -Original Message- From: Keith Bacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Freitag, 8. Februar 2002 17:42 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: actions and business logic I agree. Is it worthwhile adding a facade layer if you only have 1 or 2 different user interfaces? I can see the val

RE: actions and business logic

2002-02-08 Thread Cheng, Sophia
9 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: actions and business logic I wanted to clarify something. We are in the design stages of our project and have to make a decision what role do Actions play in the framework. We are using JRF for the database tier, and Struts for presentation o

Re: actions and business logic

2002-02-08 Thread Keith Bacon
I agree. Is it worthwhile adding a facade layer if you only have 1 or 2 different user interfaces? I can see the value if a change to business logic requires dozens of GUI changes. Also if you are writing a UI for a part of a complex system it's a way of the owners of the system presenting you

Re: actions and business logic

2002-02-08 Thread christian_weiler
Hi! In my opinion: The Action-objects should handle the workflow, second level validation, security, ... and so on. It makes things much more complicated when you mix up workflow with business logic. So usually I try to use a facade pattern (see design pattern book from gang of 4) for getting a

RE: actions and business logic

2002-02-08 Thread Jerome Josephraj
s Users Mailing List' Subject: actions and business logic I wanted to clarify something. We are in the design stages of our project and have to make a decision what role do Actions play in the framework. We are using JRF for the database tier, and Struts for presentation one. I want to

Re: actions and business logic

2002-02-08 Thread Jay sissom
We also use JRF & Struts. We try never to put any business logic in the action object. Action objects call boundary objects and the boundary objects call business logic controller objects. All business logic goes into the controller objects. As you can see, we build our applications based on t

actions and business logic

2002-02-08 Thread Mike Dewhirst
I wanted to clarify something. We are in the design stages of our project and have to make a decision what role do Actions play in the framework. We are using JRF for the database tier, and Struts for presentation one. I want to get a clear-cut answer to decide how much business logic (such as