[OS-webwork] Resignation

2002-11-18 Thread Maurice C . Parker
All, Effective immediately I resigning from the WebWork project and OpenSymphony. This means that I won't be participating in the upcoming 1.3 release or subsequent efforts. Thanks, Maurice --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn

Re: [OS-webwork] Resignation

2002-11-18 Thread Maurice C . Parker
LOL. Maybe it's because I had a couple of beers this evening, but your -1 just made me laugh my ass off. Thanks for the nice words. And keep going on your great start with the docs! -Maurice On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 09:29 PM, Toby Hede wrote: -1 I for one think this is sad news.

Re: [OS-webwork] Exception handling in BeanUtil

2002-11-11 Thread Maurice C . Parker
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 12:10 AM, Heng Sin Low wrote: Currently, there are many place in Webwork ( especially BeanUtil ) throw IllegalArgumentException that hide the original exception, this make it much tougher to debug. Any plan improvement/idea for this ? I noticed this too. One

Re: [OS-webwork] Property tag (beating the decomposed horse)

2002-11-11 Thread Maurice C . Parker
I am -1 on any further changes to the behavior of the PropertyTag (after the id attribute change) and any new tags that duplicate the functionality of the PropertyTag. These reasons have been explained ad nauseam on this list. If you are unfamiliar with the argument, please search the

Re: [OS-webwork] JIRA WW-84: DateFormatter should not return current date by default

2002-11-11 Thread Maurice C . Parker
' ww:param name=date value='illegal' / ww:property value=formattedDate / /ww:bean This shows no errors (to the user or the server side logs) and prints out the current date. --Erik On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Maurice C. Parker wrote: On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 08:38 PM, Erik Beeson wrote: http

Re: [OS-webwork] Callback after view is rendered

2002-11-08 Thread Maurice C . Parker
Gavin, I recommend that you try the filter approach. You could solve your transaction boundary problem for all your Hibernate users doing webapps at once. Someone could be doing something as primitive as a servlet+jsp w/ scriptlets and you would still have them covered. I'm not sure, but

Re: [OS-webwork] JIRA Issue WW-79: PropertyTag shouldn't print when id is sepcify [PATCH]

2002-11-07 Thread Maurice C . Parker
For those who haven't read the Jira comments I posted about this bug, I have inlined them here: I agree that the Property tag shouldn't print when the id attibute is present. It would be uncommon that a person would both want to print the selected value and

Re: [OS-webwork] All purpose property tag [Was: Tags (and perspective) [Was: more flexible property tag]]

2002-11-07 Thread Maurice C . Parker
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 03:47 AM, Erik Beeson wrote: One of two things NEEDS to happen here. Either property tag NEEDS to be broken up, before 1.3. OR one of you people who is set on not breaking it up needs to document the beegeebers out of it, put your money where your mouth is

Re: [OS-webwork] ui:hidden and ui:submit

2002-11-06 Thread Maurice C . Parker
On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 04:09 PM, Hani Suleiman wrote: Actually, while I've pretty much agreed with Maurice on every single point he's made, this is one case where I agree that ui:hidden and ui:submit would make sense. Hey, just because Patrick wrote it doesn't mean I disagree

Re: [OS-webwork] Rant

2002-11-06 Thread Maurice C . Parker
Patrick, Let me start by saying that I *do* respect your opinions. You are a bright and energetic developer and we would be poorer if you left the project. As to the configuration code, I stand by all my technical arguments. We came to an agreement and I'm holding you to it.

[OS-webwork] WebWork 1.3

2002-11-01 Thread Maurice C . Parker
All, I think we need to put together a 1.3 release sometime within the next month or so. The focus of the next release needs to be quality above all else. The 1.2.x releases were very poor and there are people needing bugfixes for problems introduced with them. To move us toward a higher

Re: [OS-webwork] Webwork Security Requirements

2002-11-01 Thread Maurice C . Parker
Guys, Adding more junk to the Actions.xml is a sure way fire way to make using WebWork more difficult. Do a comparison of our mapping file and Struts and you will see what I'm talking about. Jason, we've been over this repeatedly. People on the list have given you many helpful suggestions

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWork CookBook

2002-11-01 Thread Maurice C . Parker
Mike, this stuffs awesome. Excellent work. I had a conversation with a coworker today about learning to use WebWork. He is extremely excited about how quickly and easily he can develop apps using SiteMesh+WebWork. He got up to speed using both in a very short period of time. The problem