On 12/2/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Struts died long live Struts?
Yes. The ASF envisions that our projects can have livespans counted by decades. Not months, not years. Decades. No one expects a project to retain the same codebase year after year, decade after decade. As Craig mentioned, Struts 1.3.0 is not Struts 0.5. We've steadily evolved the API. Today, you can't run a Struts 0.5 application under Struts 1.3.0 without making a wad of changes. Witness the war stories from people trying to move from Struts 1.0 to 1.3 in a fell swoop. Neither is Java 5, Java 1. Java 1 is not dead. It lives on in Tiger. WebWork is not a foreign codebase. WebWork is a Struts revolution that Richard Oberg started back at the beginning. Now, the time has come to merge the revolution back into the trunk, as contemplated by the Rules for Revolutionaries. * http://incubator.apache.org/learn/rules-for-revolutionaries.html Seeing the writing on the wall, Erik Hatcher suggested that we merge with WebWork2 back in August 2003. We're just finally getting around to following Erik's advice. :) * http://tinyurl.com/at2ln Realistically, if we did continue with the improvements we have planned for Struts 1.x, we would end up with WebWork. That's the truth, plain and simple. We're just cutting to the chase, so we can get on with what's important: Shipping our own applications and making development lighter, faster, and easier in the process. I'm just finishing up some new acceptance tests for MailReader using WebTest, and I should be able to get started on a WebWork MailReader tonight, which I think will open some eyes. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
