"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Jonathan wrote: > > > Hello all. > > It seems that there is a back log of documentation to do and I would like to > > offer to help with it as I am very good at explaining things. It also helps > > me understand the framework in a deeper way. However, because I am still > > relatively green with Struts (3 months) I will need to correspond with some > > of you outside of the list to get questions answered (I dont want to clutter > > up the list with these questions). I can complete sections according to > > when you want them, or I can do it in the order I want. > > > > Sounds great! This is a good place to talk about what the docs should > include. > > On my personal wish list: > Another nice item would be more info on the XMLs. I've had to go through the DTD files before to figure out what some attributes do. A detailed description of all tags and attributes for the struts-config.xml would be great. Along with the same for setting up the ActionServlet in the web.xml. Alan Yackel Creatrixs INC. > > * High-quality UML diagrams covering all aspects of the architecture > of Struts (especially sequence diagrams of how requests are handled). > Anybody know some good+cheap tools for this purpose? > > * Tutorials (and example webapps) for a few common design idioms, such as > a wizard-type multipage dialog. Although, maybe we ought to wait on > this particular one if we're going to add pager-type tags. > > * Examples of extending the controller servlet to initialize your own > application resources. > > * Examples that integrate some other commonly available tag libraries > (such as those in jakarta-taglibs). However, I'm not personally a > huge fan of using the DB tags, because it can encourage you to stray > away from MVC :-). > > * Step-by-step how to construct a web app. Yes, this covers a lot of > ground that is not Struts-specific, but this would clear up a lot of the > complexity faced by new developers. A good starting point might be the > "Application Developer's Guide" that ships with Tomcat (disclaimer: I > wrote it, so don't be too hard on me :-). > > * Completed "package.html" files for the remaining packages (used as > Developer's Guide links in the documentation). > > * A comprehensive example that uses Data Acess Objects to talk to a > relational database. Ted's got some good starts here, but I'm thinking > more about a "real" application -- perhaps something like the > FAQ-O-MATIC idea, but written based on Struts? > > * A comprehensive example that uses EJBs to delegate business logic to > session beans, and persistence logic to entity beans. Obviously not > everyone will be able to run this, but you can at least look and see > how such an app could be constructed. > > A couple of things to think about before we start writing docs that will > be out of date quickly: > > * I'm planning to migrate to jakarta-commons versions of the shareable > pieces of Struts that have migrated there, including: Bean Utils, > Digester, DBCP (connection pool), Collections classes, and Message > Resources. Docs are still welcome in all of these areas, but they > should probably be done in jakarta-commons instead of here. > > * The JSP Standard Tag Library will have an early access version of their > tags available in the near future. There will be some significant > overlap with our tags in the struts-bean and struts-logic libraries, > and an expression language for nested property access that will be > similar to (but not identical) to ours. We'll want to think in the > long run about making sure that Struts interoperates nicely with > these tags. Because they will be standard, JSP page compilers will > be able to generate optimized code for them. > > * A little further down the pike, the result of the JavaServer Faces > (JSR-127) effort to create a standard GUI Component Model for web apps > will be in early access. At that time, I'll want to build some app > examples that use JSF as the user interface, but interact with the > rest of the Struts framework. NOTE: I am on the expert group for > JSR-127, so you can rest assured that the two technologies will play > together nicely! > > > If this is ok with you all and you are interested, please send me an email > > at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Let us all salute the Sixers on their valiant effort last night > > > > > I was rooting for them (being from Portland and a Trail Blazers fan, you > can imagine how I feel about the Lakers :-). Alas, it was a tremendous > effort, but for naught ;-(. > > Craig
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