On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, James Holmes wrote:
> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 10:30:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [newsletter] some topics
>
> +1, looks really good. I think it will be hard to
> pick just a few each month since the User (and dev
> lately) list is so active.
>
> I think we should probably put some sort of blurb with
> a link to the news page so that people reading the
> general newsletter can click over to the news page to
> see more struts specific news.
>
+1 as well.
> -james
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.jamesholmes.com/struts/
>
Craig
>
>
> --- Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I haven't seen anyone else put forth pieces for the
> > "jakarta
> > newsletter", so I thought I'd take a crack at it. I
> > just browsed the
> > list archives to refresh my memory, so chances are
> > good I missed
> > something. Also, I didn't pay very close attention
> > to the CVS and
> > bugzilla posts, so I may have overlooked some
> > important fix or
> > addition...
> >
> > I have no great pride in the text either, so please
> > feel free to "patch"
> > anything below...
> >
> > * Path-based action mapping in 1.1
> > One of the architectural advances from Struts 1.0 to
> > Struts 1.1 involved
> > supporting multiple applications with a single
> > Struts controller
> > servlet. As part of the initial implementation of
> > this functionality,
> > some configuration flexibility was lost: the
> > multi-application
> > controller only supports mapping URLs to Struts
> > "actions" by extension
> > (i.e. "*.do") while Struts 1.0 also supported
> > mapping by path prefix
> > (i.e. "/do/*"). After James Young asked if any
> > fixes were in the works
> > [1], Craig McClanahan pointed out some of the
> > complexities involved
> > [2]. Ted Husted described a possible solution and
> > asked for feedback
> > about whether to pursue it. [3]
> > [1]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8226
> > [2]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8234
> > [3]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8244
> >
> > * Tiles add-in to moved to core
> > Craig McClanahan moved the "Tiles" add-in into the
> > core CVS source tree
> > from the "contrib" directory.[4] Ted Husted
> > initiated a discussion about
> > some code modifications to "Tiles" to make it work
> > more closely with the
> > core code base.[5]
> > [4]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8682
> > [5]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8621
> >
> > * FormBean: Interface or Class?
> > The discussion about whether the "FormBean" concept
> > was best implemented
> > as an interface or a class resurfaced, and Craig
> > McClanahan wrote a
> > decisive response explaining the motivation for
> > maintaining it as a
> > class.[6] In summary, designing FormBean as an
> > interface would
> > facilitate inappropriate tangling of the "model"
> > layer with the "view"
> > layer, while making it a class of its own encourages
> > clean separation of
> > those layers.
> > [6]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8253
> >
> > * Struts and the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
> > After announcing the 1.0 release of the JSTL, Shawn
> > Bayern offered
> > assistance towards integrating the rich Struts tag
> > libraries with the
> > JSTL, which in many cases offers equivalent
> > functionality.[7] Craig
> > McClanahan indicated that a likely goal for a post
> > 1.1 release of Struts
> > would be thorough integration with the JSTL
> > expression language, and
> > aiming towards an eventual replacement of the Struts
> > "bean" and "logic"
> > tag libraries with the equivalent tags from JSTL.[8]
> > [7]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8434
> > [8]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8439
> >
> > * New Committer: James Holmes
> > James Holmes, author of the popular Struts Console
> > tool, was proposed as
> > a committer by Ted Husted [9] and was accepted
> > unanimously.
> > [9]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8341
> >
> > * Steps towards Struts 1.1b2
> > As much of the activity on the list in June involved
> > "swatting" bugs in
> > the current 1.1b1 release, Craig McClanahan proposed
> > steps towards a
> > Struts 1.1b2 by around July 8th[10] The
> > requirements for the next beta
> > are basically closing any remaining bugs and
> > improving documentation of
> > new Struts features. Committers responded promptly
> > with +1 votes and
> > further contributions.
> > [10]
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=8691
> >
> >
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