Rich (Others) I personally like the idea, but have some questions/concerns.
Below you mention "most of the NetUI piece of Beehive would move into the Struts project". I think this should be all or nothing in my mind at first glance. What artifacts of NetUI would stay in Beehive project? I feel splitting the code would be dangerous and likely ineffective. To my understanding, the tag libs for Beehive have some features not found within struts today. For example, the grid tag. What would be the plan with these types of tags? Seems this is a large discussion point on this potential project. Thanks Steve -----Original Message----- From: Rich Feit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 9:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Struts, WebWork, and Beehive Hi all, This mail involves a potentially big question about the future of Beehive; I'll try to keep it short, but if you're impatient, skip to the middle. :) Ted Husted and Don Brown of Struts have proposed merging WebWork into Struts: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40struts.apache.org/msg13815.html This is a big deal; see http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=37794#192216 for starters. Following from the prototyping work that we did with "Struts Ti", they've included Beehive Page Flow as part of a Phase 2: > * Ti phase 1 = WebWork 2.2 + Struts 1.x compatibility library and migration tools > * Ti phase 2 = phase 1 + Commons Chain integration + Beehive's Page Flow + simplified annotations + quick development mode ** What this means is that most of the NetUI piece of Beehive would move into the Struts project -- refactored or rewritten to run on the core action framework that's being developed in Phase 1. ** The question for our community is, do we want to sign onto this? For my part, I am all for it. I think it would be good for Beehive (joining forces with our "big sibling") and it would be good for Struts (bringing in our toolability, annotation-based programming model, etc.). We're both Apache projects, and it seems like a natural move to make. What are your thoughts? Eddie and I will both be at ApacheCon along with several of the Struts committers, so any support/objections/questions/concerns you have before that will help us understand where the Beehive community stands on this. Thanks, Rich
