Re: struts, maven & example projects

[Nathan Coast]

Nathan, in looking specifically at your project, I'm wondering one 
thing: are you using the term "Module" synonymously with the sense of a 
Struts module as a separate "config/*" entry in the web.xml?  Or is 
"module" just your term for a unit of a web application?
yes, we're using 'module' to mean a struts module -
/WEB-INF/[module-name]/struts-config.xml
/WEB-INF/[module-name]/tiles-defs.xml
/[module-name]/foobar.jsp
/[module-name]/styles/........
/[module-name]/images/........  etc
following this structure:
http://www.codeczar.com/beta/maven-struts-module-plugin/standards.html
I will make a note of your project.  I can't guarantee when I'll have 
time to check it out further, and I have to admit that I don't 
immediately see it as a solution to any specific problem I've been 
having -- but since I am a Maven user and a Struts user, it may turn out 
to be interesting.
We see two uses of this plugin:
1) a mechanism to include 3rd party struts-module components within your 
web-application.  e.g. LogWeb.
http://www.codeczar.com/beta/logweb/
We had the idea for this plugin as many users had problems bundling 
LogWeb within their web-apps, so we automated the bundling process with 
this plugin.

This is just an idea, but this plugin would pave the way for other 
generic web-components.  It then becomes simple for developers to bundle 
these components into their webapps - e.g user management module, 
security module, messageboard module, etc.

2) a mechanism to manage complex web-apps consisting of many modules - 
facilitates decomposing your web-app project into many smaller module 
projects e.g:
http://www.codeczar.com/beta/struts-examples/
not strictly neccessary for the struts example web-app (as its fairly 
simple) but it demonstates the plugin.

Another idea would be that all of the struts webapps could be
built as modules as part of a single web-app - example, examples 
(upload, validator, exercise), documentation, tiles-documentation

So by now you've gotten the message that Struts will continue to have a 
Maven project.xml file, and it may be a while (if ever) before it 
matters more than that how "official" Struts' use of Maven is -- but if 
you have suggestions for improving the ways in which Struts (the 
project) uses Maven, I'm all ears.
we hacked around the project xml for the example app:
http://www.codeczar.com/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/struts-examples/project.xml?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=Struts&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
not sure if this is of use to you.
More than happy to lend a hand getting the struts examples working with 
maven regardless of whether they use our struts-module plugin. let me 
know where I can help.

cheers
Nathan
Joe
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