I'm really looking forward to this. Big jump forward, I think. Jack
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:54:30 -0600, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 6:28 AM -0800 12/10/04, Julian wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I was wondering if the release of Commons Chain 1.0 > >will enable a "Best Available" release of Struts with > >struts-chain? If not, how stable is the COR stuff in > >Struts? > > The struts-chain was working just fine against pre-1.0 releases of > Struts Chain. If you're interested, there's no reason to wait. It > will be longer before you can download a nightly build of Struts > which uses the Chain request processor, but work on that was mostly > waiting for the 1.0 release (and for time, which unfortunately I've > had a short supply of, and this time of year, it will continue that > way.) > > I have a few pending questions on the dev list that I may need to > re-raise about a few implementation details, but now that 1.0 is > fully released, I do hope to begin making changes to the core code > base to use commons-chain and the Composable Request Processor. I > don't see the point of just merging struts-chain into the 'core' > project and cutting a release; rather, we'll want to obsolete the > PlugIn which configures the command catalogs in struts-chain in favor > of direct support in the ActionServlet. I am also inclined to > package the set of commands which provide legacy Struts support as a > separate JAR, rather than pushing a few dozen classes into the core > which in some sense are legacy bound. (Whether there's consensus on > that is one of the questions to re-raise on the dev list.) > > I've been using struts-chain in a production project for close to a > year now (including original development time). We flushed a few > bugs out along the way, but it's fundamentally stable with Struts > 1.2.x. > > Joe > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Narrow minds are weapons made for mass destruction" -The Ex > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." ~Native Proverb~ "Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows." ~Hunkesni (Sitting Bull), Hunkpapa Sioux~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
