Wow, how did I miss this? I wonder what we can do with this and
commons-resources and/or Apache Struts.
In my current gig we are using a home grown solution in combination with
ActionErrors/ActionMessages provided by Struts. This project would have
been nice to have about 8 months ago.
My immediate needs (scratching my own itch here) would be to help provide
greater granularity for application messaging (similar to log levels) and
perhaps a jsp taglib or two to help take advantage of this in my apps (this
would probably go under Apache Struts contrib).
So, with that said, I would like to volunteer to help with this project.
Off the top of my head what I would like to do is:
a) offer the same solution with the following alternate implementations:
- properties file based configuration (more on this later)
- RDBMS based configuration (I've already done this in commons-resources)
b) Develop a Struts plug-in that will load and configure commons-i18n for my
Struts applications.
(I guess I could just add this as a plug-in under struts)
c) The types of LocalizedMessages or LocalizedExceptions I can use are the
following:
- System error
- Error
- Warning
- Alert
- Flag
- Info
d) I would like to add an entry like:
<entry key="small-icon">/images/some-icon-small.jpg</entry>
(also one for large-icon)
e) New MessageManager impl that can assemble messages based on a config file
who's entries simply point to existing i18n'd properties file(s) keys. (I
will provide more details for this on my ShortTermPlans page
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/ShortTermPlansForJamesMitchell)
General questions:
Is there any reason you did not use commons-logging? Can we change this to
commons since it will (by default) delegate to the appropriate logging
framework (let's eat our own dogfood)?
Any reason you are using xml-importer instead of digester? I've read the
docs on sf.net, but the advantages still aren't clear to me (I'm guessing it
was just a personal choice made some time ago and you just stayed with it).
Can we change this to use either (or use commons-configuration)?
Have you thought about Spring integration?
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James Mitchell
Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist
EdgeTech, Inc.
678.910.8017
AIM: jmitchtx
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