If the one and only goal is getting Struts to use Velocity templates, then, yes, a VelocityAction is going work every bit as well as a VelocityServlet. And maybe that's the way to go. A developer could choose to either extend it, or maybe just forward to a base VelocityAction that did what the VelServlet is trying to do. Both approaches could probably be supported at once.
But, if it were me, I'd first think in terms of a VelocityServlet that is designed to answer from a URI, and create a chained VelocityContext from a request/session/application contexts. Then, I would subsubclass that into a VelocityActionServlet that knew about the Struts resources. (If that part were actually needed.) -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services. -- Tel +1 716 737-3463 -- http://www.husted.com/struts/ Incze Lajos wrote: > > > Typically, the View Helper is another servlet, but there's no reason why > > it couldn't be another Action. (After all, the dispatchers are typically > > servlets too.) > ... > > > <Donnie comment> > > > I agree with that to the extent that the view will be in another servlet, > > > which means in the vast majority of cases. My primary concern with overuse > > > of the contexts is in things not directly related to the request / session > > > itself. > > > </Donnie comment> > > > > I've never understood this claim. As I see a servlet is a processing unit > of an HTTP request/response turn. You want to isolate a servlet if the > iprocessing unit is directly callable from the HTTP connection. There is > no any other structural feature in the servlet over a simple subroutine call > to a view. Even you have to work some to put everything into the request > that could be available otherwise. I can't see any benefit in declaring > that the viewer helper is another servlet if it was not actvatable directly > from outside by an URL. Am I missing something? > > incze -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
