> PROPOSAL/SUGGESTION I was a big fan of the component software model advocated by a technology called OpenDoc developed by Apple, IBM, and Novell back in the mid 90's...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc Ironically, Steve Jobs killed off this technology because the thought was that Java Beans would be a better solution. This has not happened...yet. This is probably because Sun did a lousy job of evangelizing the potential of technologies like the "bean box" and others in the "Glasgow" suite of Java Bean technologies. When I started doing web development I naturally started looking for a similar software model and framework that I could apply to this space. I believe my wait is finally over and the answer is portlets... http://portals.apache.org/ Think of a portal as simply a collection of compound documents made up of portlets and I think you will see how I got here from there. Even though this technology is in its infancy, I believe that there has already been some movement in the Struts community to provide support for JSR-168 in an upcoming release. I will be doing all that I can to ensure that this effort is successful. Before anyone starts a new Struts branch, before fo so I urge them to evaluate supporting the development of standardized Struts portlets. In regards to establishing an IDE for this technology I would think that a portal for developing, or simply assembing, portlets would be a natural solution. Scott __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
