Simplifying Struts

[Don Brown]

With my extra day off today, I took a look at ways to simplify Struts.  
Having been impressed by the simplicity of NanoWeb, I particularly 
looked at ways to change the Struts concept of Actions and 
ActionForwards to support POJO's and configurations that allow new 
actions to be written without requiring any changes to 
struts-config.xml.  I described my findings in my weblog: 
http://www.jroller.com/page/mrdon/20040706#zero_configuration_with_struts

What does the Struts developer community think of providing direct 
support for regular JavaBeans as actions?  One feature of JSF I liked 
was how actions were simply no-arg methods on a JavaBean, making them 
easy to write and test.

Incidently, I built my extension off struts-chain, so it works 
side-by-side regular Struts actions, forwards, and forms.  With 
commons-chain out of the sandbox and Struts 1.2.1 around the corner 
(thanks Ted), I think it is time to start integrating struts-chain into 
the core.

Don
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