On 3/17/06, BoD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > I work for a software publisher making web applications and we currently > use Turbine. > We find that our applications are hard to maintain because of the way we > handle the navigation: currently, we just use the TemplateLink tool in > velocity templates and in Action classes, to build the URLs pointing to > the different parts of the application. > I've been assigned the task to see if there was a better way to handle > these aspects. I looked to other web frameworks and most of them have a > way to declare externaly the navigation rules (eg: struts-config.xml for > Struts, faces-config.xml for JSF, Spring Web Flow for Spring, xwork.xml > for Webwork). Basically, these files document the flow of navigation in > a single place, and that's what we'd like to have. > > Now my questions are: > 1/ did I miss something (is there anything similar that could be used in > Turbine)?
No. Part of this is because turbine modules return void, instead of some other value that could be used to determine the next template to be rendered. Guara modules return the Outcome object. This objects is used by the "view" code to determine which template to render next. if Outcome.UNKNOWN is returned the template from RunData is used. 2/ if not, is there any development planned in that direction, for > future versions of Turbine? I don´t know. And I guess a more general question is: how do you guys deal with these > problems? Do you just use the TemplateLink tool? And do you have the > same feeling that it's a problem to have the links at several parts of > the application? I like the template tool. Sometimes is desirable to override the value set on RunData (think reused on modules). I have a very specific situation where the same module is executed by regular http requests and by ajax requests, but I want to return HTML or JavaScript code, depending on the type of request, without changing my module written in Java. Turbine does not handle this situation very well. Thank you very much for your help. > > BoD > -- Leandro Rodrigo Saad Cruz CTO - InterBusiness Technologies sitedafesta.com.br db.apache.org/ojb guara-framework.sf.net xingu.sf.net
