> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, PILGRIM, Peter, FM wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Am I missing something, or can't you just say:
> > >
> > > <controller processorClass="com.mycompany.MyRequestProcessor"/>
> > >
> > > and be done with it?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > I certainly could do that and I am doing that, but I want to
> > force the custom request processor,
> > because I am package Struts as part of Expresso?
> >
>
> How about defining an ExpressoPlugIn that configures
> everything you need
> at startup time? PlugIns run after the struts-config.xml
> file has been
> digested, but before the configuration information is frozen,
> so they can
> do things like:
>
> ModuleConfig modConfig =
> servlet.getServletContext().getAttribute(Globals.APPLICATION_KEY);
> ControllerConfig contConfig = modConfig.getControllerConfig();
> contConfig.setProcessorClass("com.mycompany.MyRequestProcessor");
>
> This technique can be used for pretty much any sort of
> modifications to
> the configured information.
>
> Another alternative (recently added in the 1.1 tree) is to add some
> Digester rules that are included in the set used to parse
> struts-config.xml (see the "rulesets" init parameter on
> ActionServlet).
> If you couple that with turning validation off, you can even add
> additional configuration elements and attributes into the
> standard config
> file -- I think the STXX folks are planning to take advantage
> of this to
> define their processing pipelines inside an <action> element.
Thanks a lot Craig,
After the valentine, I got some work to do now on Sunday morning!
--
Peter Pilgrim,
Struts/J2EE Consultant, RBoS FM, Risk IT
Tel: +44 (0)207-375-4923
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