I agree with Hani's points - but must add that on the whole this is awesome! Very solid, lots of text, good points made throughout.
I know Hani meant to commend you on the overall quality, but forgot (or he hadn't taken his bile hat off ;)). M On 19/8/03 11:29 AM, "Hani Suleiman" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) penned the words: > 1) I don't see the need to cuss webwork1. > 2) The portlet sentence seems rather bizarre to me, a portal > dispatcher? JSR-168 says very little about portals, so a portal > dispatcher is certainly not self-explanatory, to me at any rate. > 3) 'Two strategies for handling form submission' seems another odd > detail to choose to highlight. Smells too much of 'look at how clever > we are for coming up with this trick!' rather than 'this is why the > average person should use webwork2'. > 4) 'JPublish is replacing their...'...JPublish isn't a bunch of guys, > it's a product. > 5) I assume the sig is not part of the press release > > On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 09:15 PM, Jason Carreira wrote: > >> I've written up a short "press release" to go as an announcement to TSS >> and JavaLobby and on the OpenSymphony site. Take a look at let me know >> what you think: >> >> The OpenSymphony team is proud to announce the first beta releases of >> XWork 1.0 and WebWork 2.0. >> >> This is the first release of a complete rewrite of WebWork, a >> hierarchical pull-MVC framework. While WebWork 1 provided a good >> separation of the general command framework from the web specific code, >> there was always a tension between making the code more specific for >> web >> applications and keeping the web-agnostic general command >> implementation. With XWork, the OpenSymphony team went back to the >> drawing board to create a powerful generic command pattern >> implementation. WebWork2 leverages the power of XWork at its core and >> builds upon it with web application framework specific code. This >> separation allows for each project to specialize and do what it does >> best without the possibility of contaminating or limiting either code >> base. >> >> XWork >> >> Xwork is a generic command pattern implementation with no dependencies >> on web specific libraries. Xwork adds powerful features to command >> processing including interceptors, the OGNL (http://www.ognl.org) >> expression language, an IoC (Inversion of Control) container, flexible >> type conversion, and a powerful validation framework. >> >> - Interceptors allow arbitrary code to be included in the call stack >> for >> your Action before and/or after processing of the Action, which can >> vastly simplify your code itself and provide excellent opportunities >> for >> code reuse. Many of the features of XWork and WebWork 2 are implemented >> as Interceptors and can be applied via external configuration along >> with >> your own Interceptors in whatever order you specify for any set of >> Actions you define. >> >> - OGNL is used throughout XWork to allow dynamic object graph traversal >> and method execution where needed and can transparently access >> properties from multiple beans using our ValueStack. >> >> - XWork IoC allows for code dependencies to be made explicit and >> centrally managed while simplifying your Action code. Components >> required by your actions will be instantiated and maintained in a >> hierarchy of three scopes (application <- session <- request) and will >> be provided to your actions automatically, removing the need for >> boilerplate code to lookup required services from a registry or >> hardwired dependencies on a service implementation class. >> >> - The XWork Validation Framework allows you to define your validations >> for a class in external XML files and have them applied at runtime >> automatically (using an Interceptor). It is very flexible framework, >> allowing for different validations for the same class in different >> contexts with defaults and inherited validations and passing the >> validation context on to your domain objects to allow them to be >> validated using their own validation definitions. It also ties in with >> XWork's excellent i18n localization for multi-language messages. >> >> XWork is completely generic, and can be applied to any request/response >> paradigm. JPublish is currently replacing their internal command >> pattern >> implementation with XWork, and possible future implementations built on >> XWork include a Portal Dispatcher implemented as a JSR-168 Portlet, a >> JMS dispatcher, and JSF integration. >> >> WebWork2 >> >> WebWork2 is built as a set of Interceptors, Results, and Dispatchers on >> top of XWork. WebWork2's view technologies include JSP, Velocity, and >> FreeMarker. For the final 2.0 release, JasperReports and XSLT views >> will >> be implemented as well. WebWork2 comes with a small but powerful set of >> JSP tags and Velocity macros which make use of OGNL's expression parser >> and XWork's ValueStack to provide for easy and expressive web page >> development. WebWork2's JSP tags and Velocity macros are built upon a >> flexible templating system, allowing you to customize the output of the >> tags by providing your own set of templates. WebWork2 also comes with >> powerful pre-built components to make web application development >> faster >> and easier such as two strategies for handling duplicate form submits >> (one returns an error view for subsequent form submissions, the other >> saves the result of the first form processing and displays that result >> for all subsequent form submissions). WebWork2 also provides the >> standard web application framework features such as servlet redirect >> and >> request dispatcher results and multipart file uploading support. >> >> -- >> Jason Carreira >> Technical Architect, Notiva Corp. >> phone: 585.240.2793 >> fax: 585.272.8118 >> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> --- >> Notiva - optimizing trade relationships (tm) >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including >> Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. >> Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. >> http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/ >> direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensymphony-webwork mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. 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