>-----Original Message-----
>From: Van [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:33 AM
>To: Struts Users Mailing List
>Subject: Re: examples of struts??
>
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>On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:16:51 -0400, Lykins Don H Contr AFSAC/ITS
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> wow....cool..
>> i see you work for lands end...doesn't their customer site use it?
>> ((landsend.com))
>> 
>> how do you know your list of sites actually use struts (by the .do)?
>
>Part of this is the honor system. Simon has an entry for the VeriSign
>Digital Brand Management System. That link points to the company PR
>site for the service which itself doesn't use Struts. However, the
>actual service which can only be seen by customers that signup for the
>service and get an account does indeed have the entire front-end
>webapp written in Struts. I know this because I work at VeriSign and
>one of my first jobs there was to port the existing version of this
>service from an outdated proprietary approach to use Struts. I asked
>Simon to list the VeriSign entry and I believe most of the other
>entries showed up in the same manner.

Yes. Well explained. It's all done on trust. Although the .do suffix is a very good 
hint. :-)

<snip>

>Finally, the extension for your Struts actions is configurable. In our
>case, the extension is usually representative of the service. For a
>managed security services customer console, we used the extension
>".mss".

Very good point. Some folks don't even use the suffix, rather they configure that 
requests to anything under a directory called "do" be treated as a Struts request. 
(And again, that directory name is configurable).

>-- 
>- Mike "Van" Riper
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Simon

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