Well, pipelines won't work for Struts in the strictest sense, as they rely on SAX and Struts isn't an XML transformation framework.
The difference as I see it is struts-chain benefits the controller process, in other words, the process that is global to all requests. The actual handling of the request, the "action", is still one class. Cocoon, as I understand it, works the other way around with the global request processing fixed, but a lot of flexibility at the action level. Even then, Cocoon focuses more on the view through the SAX pipelines so it has a more robust view processing model enabled through SAX. I still think combining Struts and Cocoon is the best solution to get the best of both worlds - Struts for controller processing, Cocoon for view rendering. Throw in Struts Flow (http://struts.sf.net/flow) and you can still use continuations-based flowscript. That is, at least, how I understand it today. I know Ted was doing some work in writing apps where there was no concept of an "action", but the action implementation simply looked up and executed a chain itself. As we get chain into Struts, we will see a number of possibilities open up that may redefine how we think of actions. If you have any ideas of a better way to use struts chain, post some code and/or thoughts. Don On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:37:36 -0800 (PST), Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am an avid user of Cocoon and really love the > sitemap concept. I am wondering if the current > direction of the struts-chain component is to only > manage action chaining. IMHO, Struts is great as a > controller, but not nec. for the View in the MVC > world. In other words, will it be possible to have an > analogous process to Coccon pipelines in Struts or is > it best to use the Cocoon plugin for "view" > processing? I really enjoy how the seperation of > concerns has been achieved with Cocoon, but for > similar reasons, I cannot use Cocoon's Forms paradigm > or Java Server Faces yet. > > Thanks in advance, > Julian > > ===== > Live simply so others may simply live. > > -Ghandi > > Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. > "Entities should not be multiplied unneccesarily" > > -William of Occam > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
