Craig--
I've been working on a "Struts Console" which is a
GUI-based front-end for Struts. Right now the
functionality is limited to editing the
struts-config.xml, but I have aspirations of much
more.
For instance I plan to have:
+ ability to build new form beans from JSPs (utilize
CodeMaker or the like)
+ ability to manage Application Resources files
+ etc, etc
Certainly this could evolve into a full featured
application that would make developing Struts
applications very easy.
-james
--- Craig Tataryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, I just wanted to give an observation and
> perhaps propose another "ToDo". I recently attended
> a ".NET roadshow" seminar in Minneapolis (btw: not
> worth the money, just buy a book and read it, all
> the instructors did was read the slides to us).
>
> Anyway, the thing I got the most out of was when
> they were displaying the features of Visual Studio
> 7.0. Specifically when creating "Web Forms". You
> basically create a form like you normally would for
> a windows application, except that the controls you
> select from are html controls. You then go about
> coding your events like you would a normal form.
>
> The IDE would then compile your application and
> create an ASPX page that displayed your form and a
> class file that would be used to handle events on
> the form (on the server side). So the compilier
> actually generates javascript code which will make
> calls out to the server when things like the
> "lostFocus" even happens on a text box, or the
> "Click" event happened on a button.
>
> Now people were really impressed with the fact that
> you could just code this program like you would a
> normal "VB" form, putting statements in event
> hanlders like "Text1.text = Text2.text" and have the
> view (the ASPX rendered HTML) display the changes.
> Now struts already does this type of binding for us
> (i.e myForm.text1 = myForm.text2), all we are
> missing is the nice GUI that allows us to "forget"
> we are writing a web application.
>
> I know JBuilder has extenisbility objects to allow
> you to hook into the IDE, does anyone here have
> exprience coding the JBuilder object model?
>
> I think this would make a good TODO because it
> allows "average" users the ability to create struts
> web apps without having to know too much about
> servlets, thus bringing struts to a wider audience.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> <tataryn:craig/>
>
>
>
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