Re: Refactoring Struts Initialization (was RE: Splitting struts-config into multiple jar...)

2004-04-05 Thread Don Brown
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: snip / I personally believe that, even if we implemented dynamic reconfiguration support for the config files themselves, developers will be disappointed in how little this helps in a development cycle -- you're not going to pick up added or changed Java classes

Re: Adding new Struts features/sub-projects (was [Bug 28609] - Scriptable Actions Support)

2004-04-27 Thread Don Brown
I think it goes without saying I'd be on the list, but just in case... :) So, in this scripting subproject, could this perhaps someday host a continuations-based scripting flow implementation? Dave Johnson has been doing some good work pulling Cocoon's flow out of Cocoon and I think a Struts

Re: struts-docu

2004-04-27 Thread Don Brown
Thanks, good catch, but next time, please submit a bug ticket to make sure it gets tracked. Don Matthias Wessendorf wrote: Hello, i just saw on struts-homepage (wildcard-mapping-section), http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/building_controller.html#acti on_mapping_wildcards that there

Validator Design Questions

2004-05-20 Thread Don Brown
With the validator as a constant source of hangups, I'm working on becoming more familiar with how it works. I have some questions, perhaps rather basic and obvious: Why does Struts perform all its validation with o.a.s.v.CheckFields? It seems it duplicates a most of commons-validator's,

Re: Validator Design Questions

2004-05-21 Thread Don Brown
Ok, good, then there is nothing obvious I'm missing. I think it would be a good goal for Struts to use validator completely and not require its own validators, and I will look into that. As for the loading of validators, yes, I'll take that over to commons-dev. Don David Graham wrote: --- Don

Re: Validator Design Questions

2004-05-24 Thread Don Brown
using struts. Please rethink this idea. Thanks Edgar -Original Message- From: Don Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:46 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: Validator Design Questions Ok, good, then there is nothing obvious I'm missing. I think it would

Re: Struts Web Services Enablement Project

2004-06-04 Thread Don Brown
this extension is a great addition to the toolbox available to Struts developers. Don Thanks! Frank From: Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Struts Web Services Enablement Project Date: Fri, 04 Jun

Re: Struts Web Services Enablement Project

2004-06-04 Thread Don Brown
. Don Thanks! Frank From: Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Struts Web Services Enablement Project Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:14:16 -0400 I think there can be considerable benefit from exposing Struts

Re: Struts Web Services Enablement Project

2004-06-07 Thread Don Brown
What about starting a sub-project on struts.sf.net? Let the features and stability mature, then if people are using it, talk about migrating it to be a sub-project for Struts. Don Frank Zammetti wrote: That's exactly what my approach is now Ted. But, I've been seeing a lot of suggestions

RE: Struts 1.2.1 release?

2004-07-01 Thread Don Brown
I vote we just roll it anyways. If we have switched to tomcat-style releases, we can just not label it as stable. I asked one of the tomcat guys last nite at the JakartaOne party if they close out all their bugs and he laughed :) Don So, if we can solve 29285, it looks like 1.2.1 would be

Simplifying Struts

2004-07-05 Thread Don Brown
With my extra day off today, I took a look at ways to simplify Struts. Having been impressed by the simplicity of NanoWeb, I particularly looked at ways to change the Struts concept of Actions and ActionForwards to support POJO's and configurations that allow new actions to be written without

Re: [VOTE] Struts 1.2.1 Alpha, Beta, or GA? (was Re: Struts 1.2.1 release)

2004-07-23 Thread Don Brown
+1 on Struts 1.2.2 Ted Husted wrote: We've only had a very few, very light tickets since the release of Struts 1.2.1 Beta. I'd like to propose that we tag and release Struts 1.2.2 on Monday and post it for a quality vote. Please note that we can vote a release directly from Alpha to GA, if

Re: JIRA Conversion (was RE: patch to make sure streams get closed)

2004-08-25 Thread Don Brown
(sraeburn at apache.org) * Don Brown (mrdon at apache.org) * Joe Germuska (germuska at apache.org) * Niall Pemberton (niallp at apache.org) -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:07 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject

Re: [Vote] Release quality for Struts 1.2.2

2004-08-29 Thread Don Brown
+1 David Graham wrote: +1 David --- James Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have finished rolling the 1.2.2 release. The acquiring page has been updated with the 1.2.2 release. http://struts.apache.org/acquiring.html I am +1 for making this GA. -- James Mitchell Software Engineer / Open

Re: [ANN] Struts 1.2.2 release is now available for download.

2004-08-31 Thread Don Brown
Has the home page's download links been updated yet? They still point to jakarta's download page which only has the 1.1 release. Congrats James, Ted, Martin, et al on the release. :) Don James Mitchell wrote: The Apache Struts team is extremely proud to announce the availability of Struts

Subversion?

2004-09-03 Thread Don Brown
Last I heard, Ted setup a test subversion repository and everyone seemed happy with it. Is there anything stopping plans to go ahead and migrate our CVS repository? I've recently setup several subversion installations and am willing to do whatever it takes to get Struts migrated. Let me

Re: CVS - SVN / Roadmap

2004-10-14 Thread Don Brown
Ted Husted wrote: +1 Let's stick to the roadmap we laid out in July. http://struts.apache.org/roadmap.html I'll update the site to reflect the CVS/SVN changes this weekend and bring the roadmap page up to date. If James is up for rolling a 1.2.5 release, that's fine with me. Either way, it

Re: CVS - SVN / Roadmap

2004-10-14 Thread Don Brown
about SVN rather than CVS. -- Martin Cooper -- James Mitchell Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist EdgeTech, Inc. 678.910.8017 AIM: jmitchtx - Original Message - From: Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:49 PM

Re: CVS - SVN / Roadmap

2004-10-14 Thread Don Brown
to the trunk. But it's worth mentioning trunk in the context of what URL you use to check out the repository in the first place. Craig On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:23:42 -0700, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mind making those CVS to SVN documentation updates today. One question though, are we

Re: Status: 1.2.5

2004-10-15 Thread Don Brown
+1 for $Id$ Joe Germuska wrote: At 10:13 PM -0400 10/15/04, James Mitchell wrote: What I need: --- Can someone put together a perl/python/shell/whatever script that can iterate over the entire repository and replace all of our cvs keywords with svn appropriate ones? I can do this, but a

[ANN] CVS to Subversion Conversion Wednesday

2004-09-27 Thread Don Brown
If there aren't any objections, I will ask infrastructure to perform the actual conversion of Struts from CVS to Subversion. The test conversion has been up for over a week, and there haven't been any problems. Again, if I don't hear different, I'll ask around Wednesday afternoon for our

Re: [ANN] CVS to Subversion Conversion Wednesday

2004-09-27 Thread Don Brown
: On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:40:45 -0700, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there aren't any objections, I will ask infrastructure to perform the actual conversion of Struts from CVS to Subversion. The test conversion has been up for over a week, and there haven't been any problems. Again, if I don't

Re: [ANN] CVS to Subversion Conversion Wednesday

2004-09-27 Thread Don Brown
Martin Cooper wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:40:45 -0700, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there aren't any objections, I will ask infrastructure to perform the actual conversion of Struts from CVS to Subversion. The test conversion has been up for over a week, and there haven't been any

Re: [ANN] CVS to Subversion Conversion Wednesday

2004-09-27 Thread Don Brown
password. Don Craig McClanahan wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:10:38 -0700, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I should have clarified, I'm giving the go-ahead on performing the actual conversion the exactly same way the test conversion was done - the full conversion. All branches and tags

Re: [ANN] CVS to Subversion Conversion Wednesday

2004-09-28 Thread Don Brown
I just checked it out over http and everything worked correctly. Are you sure you are hitting http://svn.apache.org/repos/test/struts ? Don Sean Schofield wrote: I'm trying to download from the subversion (anonymously) and I keep getting a 501 Not Implemented error. I'm typing the URL

Re: [ANN] CVS to Subversion Conversion Wednesday

2004-09-28 Thread Don Brown
Port 80, just like any other web server. Committers will use 443 (SSL) for authentication. Don Greg Reddin wrote: CVS in pserver mode connects over port 2401. Does anyone know what port svn uses? Thanks, Greg Sean Schofield wrote: Yes. I think the problem must be my firewall at work. I

Re: [ANN] CVS to Subversion Conversion Wednesday

2004-09-28 Thread Don Brown
Subversion can actually be exposed multiple ways. One such way is to use its built-in svnserve server which does listen over 3690. Subversion can also be exposed via WebDAV as an Apache 2.0 module. In the latter case, it can listen at any port Apache is configured to listen on, usually 80

Conversion from CVS to Subversion Complete

2004-10-01 Thread Don Brown
It is my pleasure to announce the official migration of the Struts CVS repository into Apache Software Foundation's Subversion repository. The previous CVS module, jakarta-struts, has been frozen, and all new development will take place in the Subversion repository. The following links might

Re: Conversion from CVS to Subversion Complete

2004-10-01 Thread Don Brown
a recommended set for patches. Hubert On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:32:18 -0700, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my pleasure to announce the official migration of the Struts CVS repository into Apache Software Foundation's Subversion repository. The previous CVS module, jakarta

Re: Conversion from CVS to Subversion Complete

2004-10-01 Thread Don Brown
Engineer / Open Source Evangelist EdgeTech, Inc. 678.910.8017 AIM: jmitchtx - Original Message - From: Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 3:32 PM Subject: Conversion from CVS to Subversion Complete It is my

ViewSVN (was Re: Conversion from CVS to Subversion Complete)

2004-10-07 Thread Don Brown
that you could see the history on the CVS version. In case its not clear what I am talking about: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/trunk/ (in a browser) vs. http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-struts/ thanks, Matt Don Brown wrote: It is my pleasure to announce the official migration

Re: Proposal: Javascript-to-Java object conversions

2004-10-29 Thread Don Brown
Actually, I just wrote a web application that uses Struts 1.2.4, Struts Flow - http://struts.sf.net/flow , iBATIS database layer, and a touch of Java. Struts Flow allows you to use a Javascript function to replace a Struts action. I use iBATIS to run SQL queries and return Lists of Maps (a

Re: Proposal: Javascript-to-Java object conversions

2004-10-29 Thread Don Brown
I didn't see anything in that proposal that couldn't be satisfied by Struts Flow, but I could have missed something. If so, we could supplement Struts Flow to support it. Converting Javascript objects to Maps should be a sufficient way to handle compatibility with existing Struts

Re: Proposal: Javascript-to-Java object conversions

2004-10-29 Thread Don Brown
Hmm...good question. :) Struts BSF is a very simple project that lets you write a Struts action using a BSF-supported scripting language. The advantage of this project is you can use any BSF-compatible language including Python, Ruby, Groovy, Javascript, Perl and even VBScript (on windows).

Re: Proposal: Javascript-to-Java object conversions

2004-10-29 Thread Don Brown
Hey, I'll could do that this weekend, but I thought I was to wait until 1.2.5 was rolled, which has, well, stalled. Damn you and your dark, velvety carrot. :) Don Ted Husted wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:01:36 -0700, Don Brown wrote: Struts Flow will be added to Struts soon as an official

Re: Struts-BSF, Struts-Scripting [was Re: Proposal: Javascript-to-Java object conversions]]]

2004-10-29 Thread Don Brown
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:52:49 -0400, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh, posted to the wrong list! Well, in all honesty, this isn't something that was initiated by me, I've never had a thought of passing objects back and forth, so I'm not sure I can give you a real, concrete use

Re: Struts-BSF, Struts-Scripting [was Re: Proposal: Javascript-to-Java object conversions]]]

2004-10-29 Thread Don Brown
in the right direction? I'm most definitely interested! -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Don Brown wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:52:49 -0400, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh, posted to the wrong list

Struts Sub-Projects

2004-11-04 Thread Don Brown
Perhaps this has already been discussed, but I couldn't find anything about it How will we organize Struts subprojects in the repository? As I understand it, Struts subprojects are projects that are intimately associated with Struts, yet have their own release cycle. The prime example being

Re: Struts Sub-Projects

2004-11-05 Thread Don Brown
No, actually, it would be a simple matter of a couple of svn move commands. They are quick, and can be easily redone later if we change our minds. Don On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:42:44 -0600, Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:52 PM -0800 11/4/04, Don Brown wrote: If so, why is struts

Re: Struts Sub-Projects

2004-11-05 Thread Don Brown
://svn.apache.org/asf/struts/core/trunk Don Craig McClanahan wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:01:33 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, actually, it would be a simple matter of a couple of svn move commands. They are quick, and can be easily redone later if we change our minds. Agree

Re: Struts Sub-Projects

2004-11-08 Thread Don Brown
Yes. :) Don On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:08:35 -0800, Martin Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:50:43 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what you mean and how refactoring is enhanced by using one trunk. I'm just suggesting giving each subproject its own

Subversion repository reorganization

2004-11-13 Thread Don Brown
As you many have noticed, we've reorganized the Struts as discussed, moving core Struts code as its own subproject, then giving struts-faces and struts-el their own subproject. At the same time, due to core build requirements concerning struts-el, we moved struts-el to its own subproject. I

Added capability to load config files from jars

2004-11-17 Thread Don Brown
I've developed a quite small patch that allows Struts, Validator, and Tiles configuration files to be loaded from the classloader if not found in the servlet context. This allows people to distribute Struts modules as self-contained jars (save jsp's of course if the module uses those). The

Re: Experiences with MockObjects for Servlet testing?

2004-11-22 Thread Don Brown
Perhaps this might be a good time to bring up the idea of bringing StrutsTestCase as a Struts subproject? They have an implementation of the servlet api for testing. Don Joe Germuska wrote: I just found an annoying bug in struts-chain, where CreateAction was looking up the map of actions

Re: Configuration and IoC (Re: Proposed Roadmap for 1.3.x and beyond [long])

2004-11-22 Thread Don Brown
The bottom line is Struts now uses xml configuration as declarative configuration, rather than procedural. We define forms, actions, plugins, etc., without defining a process for using them. When you start looking at configuration for defining procedures, it can get messy quick - just look at

Re: chain in trunk for builds?

2004-11-23 Thread Don Brown
Comments inline... Joe Germuska wrote: I think Martin said chain is in trunk. I would assume that the nighly bulids would then have chain in there, and that it not be a separate download? Chain is not yet in the core, but getting it there is something I'm interested in working on. It may also

Re: Chain enhancement idea

2004-11-24 Thread Don Brown
Not you personally BaTien, I don't understand why some people seem to confuse Inversion of Control (IoC) and Chain of Responsibility (CoR), and worse, think they are somehow solving the same problem. IoC helps us create components by managing their lifecycle and providing their dependencies.

Re: Chain enhancement idea

2004-11-24 Thread Don Brown
as the one between HashMap and a SQL database but more like a properties file and a SQL database? You think? Jack On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:44:30 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not you personally BaTien, I don't understand why some people seem to confuse Inversion of Control (IoC

Re: Second call: add generic mapped property to ActionConfig (was Re: [chain] ChainAction and o.a.s.chain.legacy.DispatchAction)

2004-11-29 Thread Don Brown
How would this work with digester? As I understand it, digester is the one that actually populates the action config, and then only at init time. I sure like the idea, but don't know about the naming style. What about foo.bar where foo corresponds to setFoo(Map m) and foo.bar calls

Spring dreaming (was Second call: add generic mapped property to ActionConfig)

2004-11-29 Thread Don Brown
struts-config.xml accomplishes the following tasks: 1. Defines form models 2. Defines and configures Actions 3. Defines and configures mappings of actions 4. Defines and configures plugins 5. Defines and configures message resources 6. Defines and configures request processor I see Spring vastly

Re: Spring dreaming (was Second call: add generic mapped property to ActionConfig)

2004-11-29 Thread Don Brown
? If I was put in this position, I would seriously consider other ways of writing Java webapps. David Craig On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:03:16 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: struts-config.xml accomplishes the following tasks: 1. Defines form models 2. Defines and configures Actions 3

Re: Spring dreaming (was Second call: add generic mapped property to ActionConfig)

2004-11-29 Thread Don Brown
. Is not Spring MVC (which is very much like Struts) configured from a Spring configuration file? Ideally, an application should be able to use as many, or as few, configuration files as it likes. -Ted. On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:47:07 -0800, Don Brown wrote: Good point, however the use of intelligent defaults

Re: Spring dreaming (was Second call: add generic mapped property to ActionConfig)

2004-11-30 Thread Don Brown
Very applicable actually :) Let's look it this way - what types of information needs to go into configuration? I see the following types: 1. Action/Backing bean definitions. Perferably support for connecting with business objects. 2. Form/field definitions and validations. 3.

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: Second call: add generic mapped property to ActionConfig

2004-11-30 Thread Don Brown
Sure, works for me :) Don Joe Germuska wrote: snip / Now, then: This whole thread started as a different question and was motivated by an earlier question. Assuming that we continue to use Digester to instantiate and populate ActionConfig objects, I would like to add a generic mapped property

Re: Struts API Bean (was Spring dreaming)

2004-12-02 Thread Don Brown
:00:49 -0800, Don Brown 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 and message resources. Now

Re: Call me crazy, but I want it all.

2004-12-09 Thread Don Brown
As I understand it, the key to improving the build, be it Maven or Ant, is who will get the job done. There used to be quite a bit of interest in a Maven build, and some progress was made toward a conversion, however, the work was never completed. If someone stepped up and completed the

Re: commons-chain: joining with struts

2004-12-15 Thread Don Brown
The summary of our discussion, as I understand it, would be to create a ActionContext, which would not be a subclass of any commons-chain contexts, but would contain the commons-chain, probably WebContext instance available via a getter. This would allow us to have one ActionContext instance,

Re: commons-chain: joining with struts

2004-12-15 Thread Don Brown
context, would it not let you just do the same thing you said bellow? (and w/o servlet api). .V Don Brown wrote: The summary of our discussion, as I understand it, would be to create a ActionContext, which would not be a subclass of any commons-chain contexts, but would contain the commons-chain

Subproject web pages

2004-12-16 Thread Don Brown
I added the struts-bsf as a Struts subproject, and am now looking to create a website for it to add to the Struts site. How should I go about this? Will it be built with Anakia? Should it be created as part of the Struts site build? Thanks for the help. Don

Re: Subproject web pages

2004-12-16 Thread Don Brown
Martin Cooper wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:18:16 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added the struts-bsf as a Struts subproject, Strange - the only commit message I've seen is the one to remove .cvsignore files. I would have expected to see an add message... The commit message

Struts chain integration

2004-12-16 Thread Don Brown
Who is working on bringing Struts chain into Struts core? If no one, I wouldn't mind doing the integration. I'm thinking about using the ComposableRequestProcessor to keep as much backwards compatibility as possible. The changes I'm proposing by layer: web.xml - A chainConfig parameter to

Any objections to adding Ant get's to build.xml?

2004-12-16 Thread Don Brown
I'm setting up Struts to build from Ant (again), and have to go through the hassle of setting up build.properties. When I brought struts-bsf in, I changed its build.xml to, if a lib directory didn't exist, create one and use Ant's get task to pull the jars from ibiblio. It wouldn't be a long

Re: Struts chain integration

2004-12-16 Thread Don Brown
Martin Cooper wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:47:53 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who is working on bringing Struts chain into Struts core? If no one, I wouldn't mind doing the integration. I've been wondering the same thing. I have not done anything myself yet, so I'd be happy for you

Re: Any objections to adding Ant get's to build.xml?

2004-12-16 Thread Don Brown
to clean up before I commit that. (Last night's Cactus property clean-up was part of that.) -- Martin Cooper On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:10:50 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up Struts to build from Ant (again), and have to go through the hassle of setting up build.properties. When I

Re: Subproject web pages

2004-12-17 Thread Don Brown
. Is the website updated by some cron job, or does a committer have to refresh it? Don -Ted. On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:18:16 -0800, Don Brown wrote: I added the struts-bsf as a Struts subproject, and am now looking to create a website for it to add to the Struts site. How should I go about

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2004-12-17 Thread Don Brown
Author: mrdon Date: Thu Dec 16 21:24:23 2004 New Revision: 122615 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=revrev=122615 Log: Adding struts-bsf at version 0.5-dev with adjustments to remove need to store jars in repository Added: struts/bsf/ struts/bsf/.cvsignore struts/bsf/branches/

extends (was Struts chain integration)

2004-12-17 Thread Don Brown
Personally, I favor the approach Cocoon takes to modules. Cocoon is configured to use one sitemap (config file), but that sitemap can mount or include other sitemaps through the mount element. See http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/concepts/sitemap.html#Mounting+sitemaps Using wildcards,

Re: Chain Integration Complete

2004-12-21 Thread Don Brown
version is this anticipated to happen by? Finally, what is the branch being used for right now? TIA to anyone who can help clear this up for me. sean On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:30:31 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you may have noticed, I've completed the merge of struts-chain with Struts core

Re: DispatchChainAction (Struts 1.3)

2004-12-21 Thread Don Brown
You raise a good point. Unfortunately, only one parameter can be passed through ActionMapping. DispatchChainAction really needs an allowedCommands parameter to specify what commands would be allowed. Perhaps we could use the new set/getProperty methods available in ActionConfig where

Extracting taglibs

2004-12-21 Thread Don Brown
My basic assumption in approaching taglibs extraction into its own subproject is it can reference Struts classes, but Struts classes shouldn't reference it. If that is correct, here are the changes I see happening to extract taglibs: 1. Move o.a.s.taglib out into its own subproject src tree 2.

Re: Extracting taglibs

2004-12-21 Thread Don Brown
a completely separate tiles sub-project that struts core would use. Don't JSF and Spring currently use tiles and have to include struts.jar when all they really want is tiles? -Original Message- From: Don Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 7:51 PM To: Struts

Request Bugzilla components

2004-12-21 Thread Don Brown
I'd like to request the following Bugzilla components be added: - bsf - sandbox If I do this myself, please point me in the right direction. Thanks. Don - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: Extracting taglibs

2004-12-21 Thread Don Brown
, there should be mechanisms to configure the Tiles definitions even if Struts is not present, via TilesServlet (which I believe already exists?) and/or a new ServletContextListener implementation since we're willing to use Servlet 2.3. +1 -- Martin Cooper Craig On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:29:43 -0800, Don Brown

Re: Extracting taglibs

2004-12-21 Thread Don Brown
long enough, I could remove that and make things a lot easier. I have yet to migrate all the tests, but that should be straightforward. Don Craig McClanahan wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:45:03 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree as well. This lets us follow a consistent approach

Re: Extracting taglibs

2004-12-22 Thread Don Brown
. Don Joe Germuska wrote: At 10:24 PM -0800 12/21/04, Don Brown wrote: FWIW, so far, I extracted tiles and taglib into their own projects, and got both core and taglib compiling (haven't tried tiles yet). It took the steps I described earlier as well as moving some methods from TagUtils back

Re: ViewUtils and UtilityFactory (was Extracting taglibs)

2004-12-22 Thread Don Brown
in the config? This would allow the util implementation to not only be module scoped but request scoped if desired since the user can have complete control over the chains. Don Joe Germuska wrote: At 12:33 PM -0800 12/22/04, Don Brown wrote: What about having a UtilityFactory class that provides

Re: ViewUtils and UtilityFactory (was Extracting taglibs)

2004-12-22 Thread Don Brown
in Utils become smaller and more tightly focused as small fragments of common code. Niall - Original Message - From: Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Struts Developers List dev@struts.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:17 PM Subject: Re: ViewUtils

Re: [struts-faces] JSF integration into Struts

2004-12-23 Thread Don Brown
Craig McClanahan wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:31:19 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip / If that is correct, would it be possible to implement JSF within Struts chain? Could a JSF implementation be decomposed into chain commands, and therefore allow the user to mix and match? You'd

Taglibs and Tiles Extraction Issues

2004-12-24 Thread Don Brown
I've made further progress in extracting tiles and taglibs, and have run into several issues I'd like to get some feedback on. 1. Tiles depends on TagUtils in taglibs. Tiles' version of TagUtils has a link to taglib's TagUtils.getScope(). I could copy this method over (it is a whole 5

Re: Taglibs and Tiles Extraction Issues

2004-12-25 Thread Don Brown
Martin Cooper wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:22:33 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made further progress in extracting tiles and taglibs, and have run into several issues I'd like to get some feedback on. 1. Tiles depends on TagUtils in taglibs. Tiles' version of TagUtils has a link

Re: Taglibs and Tiles Extraction Issues

2004-12-25 Thread Don Brown
to drag Struts around to do that. So, I'm not sure what to do with my code. Do my goals for a standalone Tiles align with the goals for the Tiles subproject within Struts? david Le Dec 24, 2004, à 3:30 PM, Martin Cooper a écrit : On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:22:33 -0800, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Where should the build system live?

2004-12-25 Thread Don Brown
Martin Cooper wrote: The new build system will consist of a few shared build files, and a per-subproject build.xml file. This leads to the obvious question of where the shared build files should live. There are basically two options, as I see it: 1) In a 'build' subproject. This is the cleaner

Re: [action2] Switching to Dojo widgets

2006-04-14 Thread Don Brown
Ian Roughley wrote: Ok, I'll be more specific :) The tags that you use in JSP are directly available to other view technologies (freemarker and velocity) due to a common underlying component model. To make this possible they have their own MVC design - using a freemarker template as the

Re: [action2] Switching to Dojo widgets

2006-04-14 Thread Don Brown
will override simple/head.ftl and import the exact parts of dojo it needs so the later requires won't have a performance impact. Don If you like I can assist, but I won't have time till late next week at the earliest. /Ian Don Brown wrote: Ian, what about using the minimal profile, but each

Re: svn commit: r394308 - in /incubator/webwork2/action/src/test: java/org/apache/struts/action2/views/jsp/ui/ resources/org/apache/struts/action2/views/jsp/ui/

2006-04-15 Thread Don Brown
Thanks Toby for fixing these tests. I keep forgetting WebWork, even its tags, are so well unit tested :) Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: tmjee Date: Sat Apr 15 08:45:00 2006 New Revision: 394308 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=394308view=rev Log: - fix failing test case

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-17 Thread Don Brown
Whether XWork is moved to Apache or not, I 100% agree the docs and API should be in a single location. WebWork has been doing this for a while, and I think we should continue the practice. The relationship between Action 2 and XWork could be like Action 1 and Commons Validator - the user

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-17 Thread Don Brown
Bob Lee wrote: Also, how do the tags relate to JSTL? Are we just going to ignore JSTL? Or are we going to use JSTL for JSP with some WebWork-specific extensions and the WebWork tags for other template engines? I personally prefer the latter option. Struts has always tried to work well with

Re: ww:radio

2006-04-17 Thread Don Brown
This is a great feature suggestion, so could you please open up a ticket on it so it doesn't get forgotten? At the moment, we are focused on getting out of the Incubator, but soon, we hope to address issues such as this. http://issues.apache.org/struts Don Ricardo Lecheta wrote: Hi, In

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Don Brown
Ian Roughley wrote: Don Brown wrote: Bob Lee wrote: Also, how do the tags relate to JSTL? Are we just going to ignore JSTL? Or are we going to use JSTL for JSP with some WebWork-specific extensions and the WebWork tags for other template engines? I personally prefer the latter option

[action2] Java 5 support (was XWork and Struts Action 2.0)

2006-04-18 Thread Don Brown
This has been a topic I've been wondering about for a while: would it be possible to move to Java 5, then use a tool such as Retroweaver [1] to provide Java 1.4 support? I'm not prepared to completely abandon Java 1.4 users, but Bob does make some good points regarding the concern for falling

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-18 Thread Don Brown
This is a great list, thanks for taking the time to put it up. I may not agree with everything, but it is sure to spark conversation :) Don Bob Lee wrote: On 4/18/06, Bob Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll set up the rough spots page. http://wiki.apache.org/struts/RoughSpots?action=show

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Don Brown
Patrick Lightbody wrote: We can definitely start by reading struts.xml rather than xwork.xml. +1, works great with struts-default.xml Don - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: XWork and Struts Action 2.0

2006-04-19 Thread Don Brown
, I would suggest that we use action-default.xml, and any place where we've started to say struts, we might consider saying action, so as to avoid confusion and conflict with Struts Action 1. -Ted. On 4/19/06, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Lightbody wrote: We can definitely start

Re: Keeping STATUS Current (was Re: friday ha ha)

2006-04-20 Thread Don Brown
, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bottom line is, IMO, the Struts project hasn't been as good as it could be at sharing our roadmap and vision with the user community. It is a personal goal of mine to improve this, and to see the continued success of both projects. One habit that Apache

Re: Keeping STATUS Current (was Re: friday ha ha)

2006-04-20 Thread Don Brown
to milestones, like we've started to do. This will help guide expectations on what will be in what release. Don Ted Husted wrote: On 4/20/06, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bottom line is, IMO, the Struts project hasn't been as good as it could be at sharing our roadmap and vision with the user

[action2] Confluence migration

2006-04-20 Thread Don Brown
The confluence migration is one of the remaining issues before Incubator graduation, and here is the plan: 1. Export the data from OpenSymphony 2. Lock the OS WW wiki down to only the dev team for minor changes 3. Stand up a confluence instance, probably on my personal server, with the

Re: [action1] cleaning up the build

2006-04-20 Thread Don Brown
Can we require these snapshot plugins in our POM somehow? I'm fine with working with snapshots, but their download and use should be automatic. Don Wendy Smoak wrote: On 4/18/06, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We definitely need an action/src/site directory to contain the root site.xml

Bugzilla to JIRA migration

2006-04-20 Thread Don Brown
With our JIRA instance stood up, it is time to revisit our earlier decision to migration our Struts Bugzilla tickets to JIRA. http://issues.apache.org/struts I believe most of this work can be done without bothering infrastructure, as the import can be done through JIRA's web admin interface.

Re: Bugzilla to JIRA migration

2006-04-20 Thread Don Brown
at http://issues.apache.org/jira? +1 (as always) for migrating to JIRA. I find Bugzilla to be unbearable compared to JIRA. I just don't see why a separate instance is needed. Sean On 4/20/06, Don Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With our JIRA instance stood up, it is time to revisit our earlier

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