David
Hi,
I was experimenting with struts and tiles (not very experienced in using them yet) and wanted to explore whether these could be combined with Java Server Faces (using struts-faces). This does not seem to be possible, as both the struts-faces integration library as tiles depend on using their own request processor class.
As far as I can tell from a quick look at the struts sources (I don't think the source code for struts-faces is available?), the main reasons why this is done is to initialize (reading their config files etc.) and intercept some forwards/requests.
I think this functionality should all be done in the plugin class (or some kind of listener interface should be created to intercept forwards). If I understand correctly, plugins are exactly meant for initializing other application components. I think that the interception of forwards should also be delegated to plugins (or refactored out of the request processor).
I understand that the way things are is for historical reasons because tiles was integrated with struts relatively recently, but it seems that in order to achieve maximum flexibility for struts, the plugin interface should become more advanced, so that special purpose request processors become unnecessary.
So, to end with a question, am I correct in my analysis? Or is there another way to combine tiles with java server faces? Can I file this somewhere as a RFE?
Ives
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