Joe, Thanks a lot. I will plan on implementing the chain after a bit more due dilligence. btw, I agree on making a seperate jar for the set of commands which provide legacy support. Thanks.
-Julian --- 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] > > ===== 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!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
