Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Jouravlev
If someone have not noticed my another message, I have got the article published. It discusses the idea of two-phase components, JSP controls and Struts implementation: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/08/04/jspcomponents.html I hope that the article explains better what I has been

RE: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-02 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
-Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==== On 7/31/05, Nick Heudecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there are a lot of people out there who feel as you do, but backwards-compatibility has always been a major theme for those While backwards

RE: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-02 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
-Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==== Pilgrim, Peter on 01/08/05 09:30, wrote: Struts 2 should force an Action or ActionForm to be interface or subclass of an abstract type, hence dependency injection. Oops! My wording was wrong. Struts 2

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-02 Thread Dakota Jack
On 8/1/05, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/05, Nick Heudecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there are a lot of people out there who feel as you do, but backwards-compatibility has always been a major theme for those While backwards compatibility is nice, I would rather

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-02 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 8/2/05, Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree for a third time, and in fact I think that something that is built for Struts rather than on its own merits and is dependent on the present community for support is not worth working on at all. I am personally not willing to associate

RE: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-02 Thread David G. Friedman
I'm definitely interested that so don't forget to post about it. :) Regards, David, Craig PS: For a slightly more in depth comparison between the frameworks mentioned above, watch for me to post the slides for my O'Reilly Open Source Conference session tomorrow that compares them. You

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Interesting, how different Struts crowd is ;) Some want to keep what they have, but make it cleaner. Other want the revolution. What about gradual improvement with compatibility with current code base? I will try to explain again my ideas. As we all know, there are two approaches for webapps:

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-02 Thread Laurie Harper
Likewise; I haven't made a detailed comparison of the different frameworks out there since around the time Tapestry was migrating to Apache! Should be interesting reading. L. David G. Friedman wrote: I'm definitely interested that so don't forget to post about it. :) Regards, David,

RE: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-01 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
-Original Message- From: Paul Benedict [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==== Frank, I am fond of these two ideas (see following). Heck, I would be willing to even write them if I think there would be a chance of someone actually commiting them into the Trunk!! There are four

RE: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-01 Thread Paul Benedict
Peter writes: (2) Stubbing of abstract attributes for framework implementation like Tapestry. Are you talking abouting the ``jwcid'' attribute? No. When you create a Tapestry page, you don't have to implement the getters - or even write the setter methods for attributes (unless you want to

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 7/31/05, Nick Heudecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there are a lot of people out there who feel as you do, but backwards-compatibility has always been a major theme for those While backwards compatibility is nice, I would rather see a better framework for the 2.x release. My

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-01 Thread Adam Hardy
Paul Benedict on 01/08/05 12:54, wrote: Peter writes: (2) Stubbing of abstract attributes for framework implementation like Tapestry. Are you talking abouting the ``jwcid'' attribute? No. When you create a Tapestry page, you don't have to implement the getters - or even write the setter

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-08-01 Thread Adam Hardy
Pilgrim, Peter on 01/08/05 09:30, wrote: Struts 2 should force an Action or ActionForm to be interface or subclass of an abstract type, hence dependency injection. If the former is the case, then it follows that calling the action method should be flexible public void bluegrass(ActionContext

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-07-31 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Paul, Do you have any specific ideas? I think there are a lot of people out there who feel as you do, but backwards-compatibility has always been a major theme for those stewarding Struts, and rightly so I think, and many of the revolutionary ideas that have been discussed or could be

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-07-31 Thread Nick Heudecker
I think there are a lot of people out there who feel as you do, but backwards-compatibility has always been a major theme for those While backwards compatibility is nice, I would rather see a better framework for the 2.x release. My personal opinion is that version compatibility should be

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-07-31 Thread Paul Benedict
Frank, I am fond of these two ideas (see following). Heck, I would be willing to even write them if I think there would be a chance of someone actually commiting them into the Trunk!! There are four things that I am very fond of and they are all tightly integrated: (1) POJO for forms (2)

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-07-31 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
See, now it gets interesting because debate starts :) (I'm already thinking this should probably be moved to the dev list by the way)... Paul Benedict wrote: (1) POJO for forms Agreed, this would be very nice, and I know it has been discussed before. (2) Stubbing of abstract attributes

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-07-31 Thread netsql
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: See, now it gets interesting because debate starts :) I would say that key for any new framework is that it has to default to client side rendering of ui. DHTML/Ajax ... or others ;-) And then as option be able to do server side generated UI. .V roomity.com

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-07-31 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
netsql wrote: I would say that key for any new framework is that it has to default to client side rendering of ui. DHTML/Ajax ... or others ;-) And then as option be able to do server side generated UI. What does that really MEAN though? For instance, take the common form controls we all

Re: [STRUTS 2X]: Ideas

2005-07-31 Thread netsql
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: what does it really mean for them to be rendered client-side and where does DHTML/Ajax fit in? DHTML renders client side(w Ajax RCP). Flex/Lazlo. Swing. XUL. X-Forms? .V - To unsubscribe, e-mail: