On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, [utf-8] Etienne Labonté wrote:
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:50:35 -0500 > From: "[utf-8] Etienne Labonté" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Developers List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Struts taglib > > Hi, > > Are there any plans to untie taglibs from Struts in a future version? In > many cases I see this wouldn't be too much to ask. Such as in > org.apache.struts.taglib.bean.MessageTag where there is a dependency on > org.apache.struts.action.Action only for a few constants. While we are at > it, are there also plans to move org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils and > friends to the Commons project? > There isn't any simple answer to that set of questions, but here are my thoughts: * For my own efforts, I'm going to de-emphasize improvements and enhancements to the Struts tag libraries at all, and encourage people to use the standardized successors (JSTL now, and JSF when it's done). We should definitely do bugfixes on the existing libraries after 1.1, but I don't see a good reason to invest the necessary effort to disconnect them when standarized (as well as more powerful) solutions exist. Other committers might see this differently, of course. * There is very little code in RequestUtils that is not Struts-specific, so it wouldn't make a particularly good candidate for commons. You might recall that several Commons packages did originally come from Struts (beanutils, digester, resources, validator), so the factoring of what was horizontally reusable is, IMHO, pretty much done. We're also, of course, incorporating commons packages that were originated by others but are useful to us (collections, dbcp/pool, fileupload, logging) as well, rather than reinventing those wheels. My personal efforts on the future of Struts are going to be focused on enhancing the fundamental architecture of the controller, and looking at things like hierarchical modules, more general command patterns for Actions, scriptable multi-request dialogs, and things like that. > Yours, > > Etienne > Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
