Action Config wild cards -- why not use regular expressions?

[Joe Germuska]

Since Struts already depends on jakarta-oro, is there a reason not to 
use it for doing pattern-based mapping, rather than the home-grown 
methodology that's in the current builds?

I don't have a use case for it yet, but since I was a perl hacker 
before I came to Java, I speak regex reasonably fluently, so it seems 
to me more useful to have the full power of regular expressions 
available.

If there are strong feelings in favor of the status quo, I think it 
would be easy enough to make "matcherClassName" a property of 
ModuleConfigImpl and support pluggable matchers.

I guess technically, only Validator depends on jakarta-oro; I might 
be persuaded that that's a reason to keep from adding it to the core, 
maybe...

Joe

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