Re: Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming)

2004-12-03 Thread David Graham
--- Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that one developer's litter is another developer's treasure :) Right now, a lot of components are already pointing to the components we've scattered about the contexts. If we just move them into our own context, then those references

Re: Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming)

2004-12-03 Thread Joe Germuska
At 7:18 AM -0800 12/3/04, David Graham wrote: I like the one api bean approach because then you don't have to remember the names of the objects to lookup in the context. You just remember one name and get the rest from that bean. We don't need a migration path if we do this for 2.0, only for the

Re: Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming)

2004-12-02 Thread Don Brown
I agree with everything you wrote, however, what I was specifically talking about was some sort of storage bean that all the global Struts components could be stored in, so we don't have all these Struts objects littering the servlet context. Yes, for each request, a ViewContext instance

Re: Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming)

2004-12-02 Thread Ted Husted
The problem is that one developer's litter is another developer's treasure :) Right now, a lot of components are already pointing to the components we've scattered about the contexts. If we just move them into our own context, then those references would break. To create a migration path, we'd

Re: Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming)

2004-12-01 Thread Ted Husted
The public API bean (where the rubber meets the road) could *not* be stored in application scope, since some of the Struts resources are request and session based. The original idea was the ViewContext (fka ConfigHelper) would be created on a per-request basis (like a Velocity tool). The

Re: Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming)

2004-12-01 Thread Levieux Cedric
+1 for this - Original Message - From: Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:00 AM Subject: Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming) On the topic of a Struts API bean, I completely agree. We should have one bean

Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming)

2004-11-30 Thread Don Brown
On the topic of a Struts API bean, I completely agree. We should have one bean, probably actually stored in the servlet context, which contains references to all the Struts-specific components like configuration elements and message resources. Now this, and the Spring topic, do overlap since

Re: Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming)

2004-11-30 Thread Martin Cooper
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:00:49 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the topic of a Struts API bean, I completely agree. We should have one bean, probably actually stored in the servlet context, which contains references to all the Struts-specific components like configuration elements