comment. If you don't have time for the qeustion, I certainly will understand.
QUESTION: Component drag and drop?
Is the drag and drop for apps using
the chaing of responsibility framework or for alternative coding of the framework parts themselves? I.e. is this like dropping a war into Tomcat or
like dynamically updating a class without restarting
the client of the class?
COMMENT
I understand entirely on the committers already being
on their own path at this point in time. I am sure the
product will be cool. I have always believed criticism
is more useful and usually more honest than praise, but I am well aware of the considerable accomplishments
of this and other Apache teams. Apache is somewhat of
a minor miracle.
Michael McGrady
On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:26:20 -0700, Michael McGrady wrote:
PROPOSAL/SUGGESTION
If you were interested, we might try doing this as a Struts Branch, maybe calling it "Branch" or "Struts Branch", with a really up-to- date modular structure along the lines indicated in Stuart Dabbs Halloway's "Component Development for the Java Program", keeping only a real kernel as the base. We could pop it up on SourceForge. I bet we could even recruit The Halloway Himself, even though he has gone elsewhere for the majority of his time right now. I don't think this presently exists. I do think that it would "sell" like wildfire to users. This would allow the user, in effect, to become automatic developers through their plugins and extensions. This would build a framework without ego in the core.
If you come up with some actual code to commit, consisder setting up shop at Struts SourceForge.
We'll be bringing Struts Control Flow and Struts Scripting over soon, so they will some vacancies :)
Incidentally, the Chain of Responsibility, which is the core of the upcoming Struts 1.3 request processor, does support drag-and-drop components. You can build a JAR so that Chain will automatically plug it into the catalog.
One reason Struts Committers aren't "chaffing at the bit" to explore other proposals is that many of the things people mention would already be supported by Struts chain. We think Chain is going to scratch most of our itches, and so we don't feel the need to shop.
Getting a 1.2.x stable release was a long time coming, but now we can finally get back to business.
-Ted.
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