Hi, I am working in a (big) banking project where struts is used. We had to extend struts at several spots in order to meet the requirements. Extending the framework we recognized that the current version of struts is not designed for extension! Yet, I think that a framework must be easily extensible because the developers of a framework can not foresee all possible needs (let alone solutions).
We had to copy and patch a lot of source code of struts to implement the required extensions. While doing this we recognized several spots (in framework terminology called hot spots) where hook methods would introduce great possibilities for extensions. In particular, we had to patch the struts-html taglib, in order to generate additional html output (e.g. hidden fields, javascript) that should be transparent to the JSP developer. Furthermore we patched the struts servlet in order to allow asynchronous request processing. Asynchronous request processing means that a user is served "please wait pages" until the original request is processed. I would like to contact the developers that are commiters of the struts-html taglib and of the ActionServlet / Action classes in order to discuss our ideas of extensibility. Ciao, --Stefan -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
