Shale may purloin the name "Struts" but their is no Struts to Shale at all. Mark G. may or may not harm Struts (I don't think people are so stupid as to let that influence their career decisions actually) but Shale will kill Struts utterly, if Shale, which is very unlikely, should be chosen to supercede Struts.
On 7/6/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/6/05, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/6/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Now there is talk of Struts in the future containing ActionCommands > > > which can be substituted in place of Actions, and strung together in a > > > chain, and presumably can perform View-Controller logic. > > > > > > > If you look at Shale (with its support for both ViewController and > > Dialog -- which, among other things, lets you intersperse action > > states and view states to your heart's desire), you'll find that the > > future is now :-) > > > > http://struts.apache.org/shale/ > > > > Craig > > Moved to the new thread. > > From http://struts.apache.org/shale/features.html#view > > "Each backing bean that implements ViewController will support a > boolean property postback, which will be set to true if this view is > the one that is processing a form submit previously rendered by the > same page, or false if this view was newly navigated to." > > * How is this different from ASP.NET? > * Does not this make Shale page-based instead of front-controller > based? MS recognized lack of front controller support in ASP.NET 1.0 > and will provide it to the second version. > > Resource-based apps like Struts Classic can return whatever page they > want from the same location, while page-based apps tie resource > address to a page, which can lead to unfriendly Back experience. This > can be worked around, but why if Struts Classic already provides > better approach? > > Sure, a component should be able to be initialized when needed. It can > be done easily with initialization parameter. > > Shale Dialogs is based on Spring Webflow, which, when I checked the > last time, did not support Back button and clean refresh. Hopefully, > Shale Dialogs behaves more user-friendly. > > Nevertheless, Struts Dialogs has WizardAction, which provides support > for dialogs and wizards, based on Easy Wizard concept: > http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/03/15/webwizard1.htm > http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/03/29/webwizard2.htm > WizardAction subclasses DialogAction and implements wizard's UI Controller. > > see the demo: http://www.superinterface.com/strutsdialog/wizardaction.do > Notice, that Refresh works, and that you cannot go back to a previous > page (unless you use Opera). > > The above is possible with adding of only two action classes to classic > Struts. > > Michael > > -- > Struts Dialogs > http://struts.sourceforge.net/strutsdialogs > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
