I am using the components add-on and I like it but it shouldn't go into the
1.0 release. It's too much code and has too much functionality to be merged
without some more review which will take time. One problem I have noticed is
that when a component is included the exceptions are caught which makes it
difficult to have any kind of global error handler. That's an easy fix but
merging the code will not be a trivial effort.
Besides, there is no compelling reason to add it to struts now because there
is nothing to stop people using struts from also using the components
framework. When it is added to struts there will probably be some re-work
involved but it should be straightforward.
Hal
-----Original Message-----
From: Maya Muchnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 10:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Struts, WebLogic 6.0 and template tags
Hello, Torsen,
It is not an answer to your question. But I would like to use this email and
ask the struts development team about compatibility template library and
components library (http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/components/). Components
allow
to define "instances" to reuse them with different parameter values. They
have
good examples how to use them for implementation. They do not have a "role"
attribute yet. Both components and templates have a lot of common. Why not
combine the best parts both of them and put under struts project before 1.0
release?
"Beuck, Torsten" wrote:
> Hi, we like to use Struts with Bea WLS 6.0 for a B2B application.
Currently
> I am developing a prototype and the first tests under Tomcat worked fine.
I
> used the Struts template tags for a page design with header, navigation
menu
> and content. An example:
>
> <%@ taglib uri='/WEB-INF/tlds/struts-template.tld' prefix='template' %>
>
> <template:insert template='/pageTemplate.jsp'>
> <template:put name='logo' content='/logo.jsp' />
> <template:put name='header' content='/header.jsp' />
> <template:put name='menu' content='/menu.jsp' />
> <template:put name='content' content='/content.jsp'/>
> </template:insert>
>
