I think there are two directions here and I don't see any easy resolution at this stage. So, yes I think two projects make sense. My next question is "Is there room for these two projects at OS?" Does it make sense or will it be a distraction since they do have overlap? Should WW move back out on its own?
-Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rickard Öberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Reflection Erik Beeson wrote: > Rickard, as I understood, XWork was to break away from J2EE, hence > removing "web" from the name. If new versions with strong web ties are > going to remain, shouldn't they remain under the original WebWork name? That is something I wanted to gauge by my last couple of emails. I personally do not believe (at this point) that making the web part "optional" is going to work very well. I certainly don't believe that it is going to be feasible, or even a good idea, to make a framework that allows code to be written for both Swing and the web. They're different beasts with different requirements, with completely different thinking behind how code gets written. We have a lot of Swing code in our project, and when I look at it I simply don't see how something like XWork would fit in, or why it would be useful. What *is* useful is to allow actions to be called without a servlet environment, but more or less *only* for testing/debugging purposes. Executing actions as a response to asynchronous messages could work too. But that's about it. I do not believe that actions (except for maybe 1% of special cases) can be reused in so different spaces. I remain open to the *possibility* of it, but so far I just haven't seen it. So, given all of this, my resignation from XWork still holds. The requirements that have been voiced the last few days are not mine, and I don't think they're compatible with my goals, at least not without serious compromises that will only hurt the end result. The question then becomes: would it be useful to do *both* XWork and WebWork, but as separate projects with these different goals? /Rickard -- Rickard Öberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senselogic Got blog? I do. http://dreambean.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld =omething 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
