The future of actions (RE: Adding new Struts features/sub-projects (was [Bug 28609] - Scriptable Actions Support))

[Joe Germuska]

I don't think you're heretical at all, Martin.  I was at the 
Wisconsin Java Software Symposium a couple of weeks ago, and between 
the sessions on WebWork and Spring and on writing testable Struts 
code, I came away convinced that changing how Actions work was a high 
priority.

And, along the lines of what David says, I've been thinking about and 
writing about ideas for doing view-preparation in Struts for a while.

To me these are two separate pieces -- I'm not sure if David and I 
see things differently, or if that's just how I read his words.

I think we can make progress in this direction in a pre-2.0 time 
frame.  In fact, given the way we work, I'm beginning to wonder if it 
makes sense to declare a 2.0 revolution; I think we can do a lot with 
incremental changes on the 1.x line.

But the first steps are to get 1.2.1 out the door and get the TLP web 
site in order.  Is there anything I can do to help with 
struts.apache.org?   I don't really have a sense of the tasks, but if 
someone else does and wants to just dole a few out, I could try to 
help move that forward...

Joe


--- Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

<snip/>

 Hmm. These days, I'm leaning towards thinking of Actions as something we
 retain for backwards compatibility only, once we're in a Struts 2.0
 world,
 so I'm not sure I'd consider a scriptable action, let alone just a plain
 Action, as something that would go in the core.
 I should probably elaborate a little on the perhaps heretical statement
 above. ;-)
 For a long time now, I have considered Actions as almost an
 > anti-pattern.


At 6:12 AM -0700 4/28/04, David Graham wrote:
I agree; I always found Tiles' Controllers to be more useful than Actions
for setting up a view because you attach the preparation code to the
actual view instead of trying to remember which URL causes this view to be
displayed.  However, you can't always use a Tiles Controller and need an
Action to make decision logic.  It would be nice to have a view
preparation system in the core and move away from Actions.
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