Re: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Newton
I'm thinking you _still_ don't know what libel is, but feel free to sue me. Leave my employer out of it. As we're fond of saying, no jumping in. If you'd rather I posted only from one of my non-work email accounts I'm happy to do that as well if it makes you feel better. If you'd like to

Re: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread DGraham
To Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org, Rob Freda [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale? I'm thinking you _still_ don't know what libel is, but feel free to sue me. Leave my employer out of it. As we're fond of saying, no jumping

Re: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Newton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me get this right, he _told on you_ ... as in tattletale??? Yeah :D Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread Albany Rose
On 1/11/06, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you'd rather I posted only from one of my non-work email accounts Better yet, take out a gmail account under a pseudonym, and then refer to Dave Newton in the third person. :) There's a reason why executioners wore a mask. Al.

RE: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread David G. Friedman
Let me get this right, he _told on you_ ... as in tattletale??? Opinion... If I were his employer, I would like to know what how he was behaving if: 1) He was doing/posting things from a corporate email address that might reflect badly on my company. 2) Spreading inflammatory comments while

RE: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread Brantley Hobbs
Wait. You're not Dave are you? :-) B. -Original Message- From: Albany Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:54 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale? On 1/11/06, Dave Newton [EMAIL

RE: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread David G. Friedman
There's a reason why executioners wore a mask. Because they couldn't stand the smell of Dakota Jack? *snicker* Well, I've said my two snide comments as the moon nears full so I'll return you to your regularly scheduled code discussions. Regards, David P.S. Struts-Shale, that means you! ;)

Re: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread Alexandre Poitras
Mailing List user@struts.apache.org, Rob Freda [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale? I'm thinking you _still_ don't know what libel is, but feel free to sue me. Leave my employer out of it. As we're fond of saying, no jumping

Re: [OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread Albany Rose
On 1/11/06, Brantley Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're not Dave are you? :-) Dave's not here. Al. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-11 Thread Werner Punz
Dakota Jack wrote: The view controller is not a controller in the Web-MVC sense and is completely misleading, in my opinion, Mark. So part of this just may be who's dog is in the hunt? The point of the tool-based and VB analogy is that JSF tries to hide from you, to do it for you, what other

[OT] Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Newton
Dakota Jack wrote: Just so you know, Alexandre Poitras, and others with similar tendencies, calling someone a troll in a professional setting having to do with their occupation almost certainly is an actionable per se libel with presumed damages and linking the person doing the libel to any and

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-10 Thread Alexandre Poitras
Sorry to repost this, but I wanted to know if I was the only one facing this difficulty and if it's the case how to avoid it. Any thougts? On 1/8/06, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a small correction below : On 1/8/06, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-09 Thread Dakota Jack
- Original Message - From: Mark Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 6:44 AM Subject: Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale? On 1/7/06, Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-08 Thread Ted Husted
On 1/7/06, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Husted wrote: An expert uses the best tool for the job. A journeyman wants one size to fit all. Blessed are those who get to make such decisions. There are unfortunately many shops that decide what the proper technologies are

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-08 Thread Dakota Jack
Just so you know, Alexandre Poitras, and others with similar tendencies, calling someone a troll in a professional setting having to do with their occupation almost certainly is an actionable per se libel with presumed damages and linking the person doing the libel to any and all jurisdictions

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-08 Thread Gary VanMatre
From: Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just so you know, Alexandre Poitras, and others with similar tendencies, calling someone a troll in a professional setting having to do with their occupation almost certainly is an actionable per se libel with presumed damages and linking the person

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-08 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Gary VanMatre wrote: Very interesting, and only if as much intellectual collateral was spent addressing technical issues... Oh come on now Gary, that wouldn't be even HALF as entertaining;) LOL Frank - To unsubscribe,

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-08 Thread gramani
Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/08/2006 11:29:54 AM: Gary VanMatre wrote: Very interesting, and only if as much intellectual collateral was spent addressing technical issues... Oh come on now Gary, that wouldn't be even HALF as entertaining;) LOL Frank Which certainly

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-08 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Trollomic? Combination of Troll and Comic? One who is a troll and yet makes you laugh at the same time? Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/08/2006 11:29:54 AM: Gary VanMatre wrote: Very interesting, and only if as much intellectual collateral

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-08 Thread Alexandre Poitras
Just a small correction below : On 1/8/06, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am developping a navigation panel like the panel2 from tomahawk (I had to offer some more features) and I like the way you can embedd some navigation items tags (NavigationItem, NavigationItems) inside the

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-08 Thread Mark Lowe
acceptable substitutes for generating working code - Original Message - From: Mark Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 6:44 AM Subject: Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-08 Thread Alexandre Poitras
I am developping a navigation panel like the panel2 from tomahawk (I had to offer some more features) and I like the way you can embedd some navigation items tags (NavigationItem, NavigationItems) inside the navigation tag to specify the different elements of the panel. Since the navigation model

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Dakota Jack
JSF is page centric rather than Action centric. There is no controller as you understand that in Struts with JSF. JSF is for a tool based, dumbed down, approach: JSF is to Struts as Visual Basic is to C++. On 1/6/06, Rick Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response, Craig. It's nice

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Mark Lowe
On 1/7/06, Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JSF is page centric rather than Action centric. There is no controller as you understand that in Struts with JSF. JSF is for a tool based, dumbed down, approach: JSF is to Struts as Visual Basic is to C++. JSF is more page centric than struts,

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Dakota Jack
The view controller is not a controller in the Web-MVC sense and is completely misleading, in my opinion, Mark. So part of this just may be who's dog is in the hunt? The point of the tool-based and VB analogy is that JSF tries to hide from you, to do it for you, what other frameworks, like

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Mark Lowe
are more than acceptable substitutes for generating working code - Original Message - From: Mark Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 6:44 AM Subject: Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Alexandre Poitras
substitutes for generating working code - Original Message - From: Mark Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 6:44 AM Subject: Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale? On 1/7/06, Dakota

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Ted Husted
On 1/7/06, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't believe me, you can look in the famous pattern books out there (Fowler, J2EE core patterns). Some of which used Struts as one of the use cases to prove a pattern exists. :) But, in the end, it is what it is. What we call a

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Ted Husted wrote: An expert uses the best tool for the job. A journeyman wants one size to fit all. Blessed are those who get to make such decisions. There are unfortunately many shops that decide what the proper technologies are *before* any project kicks off, all in the name of

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 1/7/06, Mark Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/7/06, Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JSF is page centric rather than Action centric. There is no controller as you understand that in Struts with JSF. JSF is for a tool based, dumbed down, approach: JSF is to Struts as Visual

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 1/7/06, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a JSF application, there's actually two ways to implement classic Front Controller type functionality, such as send the user to the logon page if they are not currently logged on: Concrete examples will help make this clearer, so here

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Dakota Jack
LOL I gave him the very same answer that you did, including the same citations. The difference is that I did not gloss over the confusion you have systematically engendered by not just owning up to the differences from day one. You don't have to love something to explain it. Otherwise, who

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Alexandre Poitras
Ok can we all ignore the troll and go back to the original subject... Like Craig pointed out Rick, I think you should play around with JSF first and then Shale. The IBM serie Cleared FUD about JSF is a good introduction to. I think one of the previous poster posted the link. Shale is decomposed

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-07 Thread Craig McClanahan
Just a couple of comments intermixed below. On 1/7/06, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok can we all ignore the troll and go back to the original subject... Like Craig pointed out Rick, I think you should play around with JSF first and then Shale. The IBM serie Cleared FUD about

Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Rick Mann
Hi. I've done a couple of industrial-strength websites using Struts, Tiles JSTL. I decided to start on a little personal project, mostly as a way to get on board with some technologies, some of which I've used before (maven 1/2, torque), some which I want to learn (JSF, Shale). I looked

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 1/6/06, Rick Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've done a couple of industrial-strength websites using Struts, Tiles JSTL. I decided to start on a little personal project, mostly as a way to get on board with some technologies, some of which I've used before (maven 1/2, torque), some

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Rick Mann
Thanks for the response, Craig. It's nice to get an answer from THE authority :-). Questions below... On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Craig McClanahan wrote: I'd definitely ignore anything about prereleases of JSF 1.0 ... that has been out for nearly two years now. A good starting place for

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Rick Mann
I should clarify: not all our Actions are just glue. They perform significant work when such work is constrained to the website needs (choosing what data to display). When it comes to purchases and registration, however, they are more like glue, even even more so when some functions are

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 1/6/06, Rick Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response, Craig. It's nice to get an answer from THE authority :-). Questions below... On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Craig McClanahan wrote: I'd definitely ignore anything about prereleases of JSF 1.0 ... that has been out for

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Rick R
Craig, do you have this posted anywhere other than here on this list? This is a great summary that I've actually been looking for, so I'm glad I peeked into this thread. Thanks. You should add this to your blog somewhere or it should be on JSF Central. I'd like to bookmark it. Craig

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Laurie Harper
Rick Mann wrote: Okay, I'll try to find a hello world JSF example. That might be enough for me to build on. One series of articles from IBM that I found very helpful when I first started looking at JSF (thanks Wendy for linking them!) can be found here, if you're still looking for a good

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Ted Husted
On 1/6/06, Rick R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig, do you have this posted anywhere other than here on this list? This is a great summary that I've actually been looking for, so I'm glad I peeked into this thread. Thanks. You should add this to your blog somewhere or it should be on JSF