Hello all. I'm just getting to know Struts so please bear with me. I'm at this dangerous point where I think I understand it and yet there's so much to read and learn that it's gonna take me a while to feel confident. It's nice to see a very active user and developer mailing list. Ted.your web site has so much stuff. Thanks.
It is hard to know where to begin. As I have looks at Struts, the framework that is provided is very powerful (kudos to you all). The sequence of operations embedded in the ActionServlet.process() method are at the heart of the logic that makes this powerful. I'm looking for a way to extend or plug in additional dynamic services to that sequence of operations without subclassing and rewriting that method. For example, there have been contributors suggesting security and exception handling capabilities (very worthwhile and valuable services) that seems to require changes to the ActionServlet. It would be nice to register one or more services with the ActionServlet that confirm to a service interface that invoke appropriate methods at each service point in the "process". This may allow more pluggable services (security, etc.) to an existing web application. Even some of the existing process points could be transformed into services (form service, response service) to allow those concerns to be extended or replaced. Obviously, the ActionServlet base class would have to be modified to allow for dynamic service support. I guess I'm querying to see if anyone has had similar thoughts or has already implemented this kind of generalized service support in Struts or is planning it for a release. I'm willing to give it a shot but I'd rather reuse any valuable insight or work that this group has already mustered. Thanks. Bill Boland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
