RE: talking about paradigms

2004-11-17 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
: -Original Message- From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 November 2004 17:46 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: talking about paradigms Bill, Sounds like you don't need what XSLT provides. The important thing, I think, is to make sure

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Dakota Jack
Point well taken, Frank. The complexity is real but is less severe than the alternative of using repetitive relative simplicity requiring you to recode the entire thing: brains instead of brute force. The thing is always balancing the scales, right? Give a little get more is the objective.

RE: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Daniel Perry
November 2004 04:22 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: talking about paradigms IMHO, you have to be very careful with the XML/XSLT solution. I worked on a project about two years ago (probably closer to three now actually) where we had as a requirement the ability to deliver a fairly

RE: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
] Gesendet: Montag, 15. November 2004 20:46 An: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: talking about paradigms The whole discussion about MVC and web frameworks is important, I think, because not many cash it out when to do so (cash it out) would be helpful for discussion

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Dakota Jack
Hello, Adam, You are definitely right that this is a crucial part of any web application, and not only for browsers but also for flash, javascript, etc. versions. This is so important in the overall picture for web programming that perhaps a whole separate set of interfaces amounting to a

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Bill Siggelkow
Jack, What I found was that alot of Java code to generate XML (using DOM API) had to be added in the controller layer to facilitate the view; for example, an odd/even indicator was added just to facilitate striping on the generated HTML table; to me, this seems downright overkill for some

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Dakota Jack
Very interesting stuff, Adam. Very interesting! I do not see the filter as determining what the view would be but merely as providing data that would become part of the workflow as kept in the View Stores. The view would decide on what it wanted to do about this information in terms of

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Dakota Jack
Bill, Sounds like you don't need what XSLT provides. The important thing, I think, is to make sure that the framework leaves that option open for those that want it and does not require that option to those who do not want it. I am not privy to the details of your application, of course, but

[OT] Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Bill Siggelkow
Dakota, You are assessment is correct -- this was an app that I was involved with a few years back; I am not actively working with it now. The architecture of the system used a hand-rolled front controller to access pluggable actions; these actions accessed EJBs, then marshalled the returned

RE: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
-Original Message- From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 November 2004 17:46 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: talking about paradigms Bill, Sounds like you don't need what XSLT provides. The important thing, I think, is to make sure

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Bill Siggelkow
: talking about paradigms Bill, Sounds like you don't need what XSLT provides. The important thing, I think, is to make sure that the framework leaves that option open for those that want it and does not require that option to those who do not want it. I am not privy to the details of your application

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Don Brown
and don't need multiple views. Don On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:59:48 -, Pilgrim, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 November 2004 17:46 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: talking about paradigms

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Eddie Bush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:55 AM Subject: Re: talking about paradigms Jack, What I found was that alot of Java code to generate XML (using DOM API) had to be added in the controller layer to facilitate the view; for example, an odd/even indicator

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-16 Thread Eddie Bush
- Original Message - From: Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:59 PM Subject: Re: talking about paradigms No pain no big bucks. Where'd you spend it Eddie? ;-) The think part is the part I like. I have never been

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-15 Thread Axel Groß
On 2004-11-11 at 11:24:14 +0100, Rosenberg, Leon wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Mark Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. November 2004 11:04 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: talking about paradigms I don't think EL breaks the MVC

RE: talking about paradigms

2004-11-15 Thread Daniel Perry
I think the idea that MVC architecture should have a 'dumb view' is totally wrong. The view should be as smart as possible. MVC should separate the M, V and C. With a really smart view you dont have to do any preparation for the view in the controller. If you have a dumb view then you have to

RE: talking about paradigms

2004-11-15 Thread Robert Taylor
Mailing List Subject: RE: talking about paradigms I think the idea that MVC architecture should have a 'dumb view' is totally wrong. The view should be as smart as possible. MVC should separate the M, V and C. With a really smart view you dont have to do any preparation for the view

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-15 Thread Bill Siggelkow
Sorry, I haven't been following this thread, but I tend to agree with you. I worked on an app that used XML/XSLT to achieve purity -- and what resulted was a lot of this view helper data coded into the pure XML document; defeating the premise behind separation of the model and view. -Bill

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-15 Thread Dakota Jack
The whole discussion about MVC and web frameworks is important, I think, because not many cash it out when to do so (cash it out) would be helpful for discussion. We might try some way of refering to this such as WEBMVC. Anyway, the MVC pattern, taken literally, is impossible in a web framework.

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-15 Thread Eddie Bush
Leon, Being a developer is like ... being a Jedi Knight. You seek the good and thrive on it, but are forever tempted by the dark side. Eventually, you give in to it and learn why it's evil and then go back to the light. That is, unless you're so enthralled by the dark side that you become

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-15 Thread Eddie Bush
AMEN TO THAT. What a PITA ... UGH I don't like that! PAIN! Try to debug that mess! - Original Message - From: Bill Siggelkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:43 AM Subject: Re: talking about paradigms Sorry, I haven't been following this thread

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-15 Thread Dakota Jack
Yet, Bill, that is not the problem of the XML/XSLT model, is it? That model is really cool in separating the model from the view. Indeed, that model is great at separating the view data from the view presentation. I am not sure what the app you worked on did, but I think the idea behind the

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-15 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
IMHO, you have to be very careful with the XML/XSLT solution. I worked on a project about two years ago (probably closer to three now actually) where we had as a requirement the ability to deliver a fairly simple web app via normal HTML, but also WAP-based browsers, and also the ability to

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-11 Thread Mark Lowe
I don't think EL breaks the MVC pattern. Although it leaves you free to do so if you so wish. I don't see a world appart from using bean:write name=person property=name / jsp:getProperty name=person property=name / c:out value=${person.name} / ${person.name} More to he point the fmt tag lib

Re: talking about paradigms

2004-11-11 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:42:27 +0100, Rosenberg, Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, since we started talking about paradigms... how does JSTL and especially EL fit into MVC paradigm? Much of JSTL is clearly about view tier stuff -- things like conditionals and looping to dynamically include