Chip, Thank you *very* much for your willingness to work towards extending the existing Struts HTML tag library towards support for WML.
As I have stated on several occasions (see the mailing list archives for details) I believe that the future of Struts includes the use of JavaServer Faces technology for the view tier, in preference to the existing Struts HTML library. Among other things, JSF includes support for the creation of alternative render kits (including one that supports WML instead of HTML/4.01) for rendering the same component tree for a given application. With that in mind, I'd be happy to consider an enhancement library for WML (as you describe) as a potential inclusion in the "contrib" directory" for Struts -- however, I'm actively discouraging any future plans to innovate on the basis of the proprietary (to Struts) HTMl based tag library for the view tier of an overall MVC architecture. Therefore, I'm goint to discourage any such enhancements being added to the core of Struts after 1.1 (for 1.1 we are in feature freeze, so we wouldn't contemplate adding something this big under any circumstances for the current release). Craig McClanahan On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Chip Paul wrote: > Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:25:47 -0600 > From: Chip Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Struts WML Tag Library > > I'm currently in the process of converting existing and new customer > sites into a mobile format. Since I used struts in doing the customer > web sites, I thought I'd look into WML support for struts. After I saw > that there was no current support, I starting hacking around in the html > taglib, and just got a _basic_ version of wml based struts working. I > think this is a really important part of the library, because the time > savings of reusing all the server side code will quickly stack up for me > at least. > > As I anticipate the resulting library to get more mature over the next > few months, I thought I'd see about volunteering to add to the main > taglib branch as I get my library working. I skimmed over most of the > docs on that part of the site, but didn't find a clear cut email for > whom to talk to, so I thought I should just post it to the list in case > someone is already working on wml support. > > If there's noone currently working on it, I'd be interested in either > signing up for it, or at least know whom I should send my lib to to get > it integrated. My main focus is getting my own site up, so I imagine > the library will be a tad "rough" by your standards - and to make > matters worse I'm not overly knowledgable on the guts of struts itself, > but I imagine both will work themselves out a bit as I delve in. > > At the very least, if it's on-topic, I'd like some guidance as I try to > convert HTML-centric strutisms into their WML counterparts. > > Thanks in advance, > Chip > > ======================================================= > Chip Paul, Lead Software Developer > Ethreat Security Solutions, Inc. - http:///www.ethreatnet.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell 256.479.5894 > PGP Fingerprint: 47B0 8313 2F79 5DBD 87F7 3C5E 181B 76D4 49C2 B525 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
