Guess I'll add my 2 cents :) I'm also researching using XML in the view
component of struts.
My needs may be a little off from what you're looking at though. We
have a application that currently runs as a web app. However, some of
our clients are a bit spoiled to the GUI of a desktop app. So, I need
to leverage our current expertise in servlets to interact with a desktop
application. That's where I hope XML will come into play.
The idea is to use Struts as the framework since we will probably still
have some clients using the web based system. Hey, that's the power of
the MVC pattern after all. You can easily plug a different view in and
everyone is happy :)
XML will basically be a messaging protocol between the client and server.
Mike
Martin Eckert wrote:
> I'm also researching the possibilities at the moment to implement an XML
> solution in our app.
> I'm reading up on the cocoon project to see if there is a way of making
> struts and cocoon live together peacefully.
>
> http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/
>
> Any other suggestions or experience?
>
> thanks,
>
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Flynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 5:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: XSL instead of JSP
>
>
> Has there been a discussion on using XSL/XML for the
> view portion of Struts? If not, does anyone have any
> ideas on how to proceed. I need to add this
> functionality. This development will gladly be
> submitted to Apache.
>
> Some vague ideas on how to use XSL:
> -add a <view-mappings> section to struts-config.xml
> -add a package org.apache.struts.view
> -add ViewServlet, View, etc
> -Xalan support
>
> A few reasons to use XSL:
> -Most of my application data is already stored in XML.
> -I have more experience with XSL than JSP.
> -XSL gives less power to the GUI designer. :)
>
>
> thanks
> Paul Flynn
>
>
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