No Joe, you didn't miss anything :) I was already thinking about how easy this would be under 1.3 too. But, I'm hesitant to start playing with 1.3 until it's actually released (at least in beta). This is an easy add to 1.3, as you indicate, and I'm also looking forward to porting my StrutsWS project over to it since I think that will be a nice demonstration of why chain is cool. I just don't want to start playing with something that isn't really stabilized yet (close thought, right?).
And besides, something like this seems to be getting a fair amount of interest, so someone would eventually want to back-port it if I started with 1.3. Since we both believe it will be quite easy under 1.3, why not start with the 1.x branch where it's a bit more work? :) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Tue, March 8, 2005 9:23 am, Joe Germuska said: > Sorry, I haven't been following this whole thread, but when I saw > this config example from Frank: > >> > <action path="myAction" type="com.omnytex.actions.MyAction"> >> > <setupItem class="com.omnytex.setup.MyActionSetup" >> > method="setupMethod1" /> >> > <forward name="defaultForward" path="page1.jsp"> >> > <setupItem class="com.omnytex.setup.MyDefaultSetup" >> > method="defSetup1" /> >> > </forward> >> > </action> > > I wondered "why not use chain?" > > In Struts 1.3, you can specify a command in the <action> element > which will be executed before Struts processes the action, forward, > or include specified in the same element. > > I haven't done anything about it yet, but I've kind of been expecting > to add a similar kind of configuration value to forward elements. It > is probably the most straightforward way to plug-in the kind of > page-prep behavior that I've hacked in to other apps. > > Since there is a DispatchCommand in commons-chain (the post 1.0, as > yet unreleased version), you could achieve exactly this, with the > only difference being that some of the configuration goes in another > file -- a chain-config.xml > > If I missed something in other messages on this thread, please fill me > in... > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
