RE: ActionContext chain changes committed

[Joe Germuska]

OK:  the ComposableRequestProcessor now makes sure that the context 
passed to the initial chain command is an instance of ActionContext 
-- this feels like a much stronger model than the wrapping process. 
I will probably completely remove the WrappingLookupCommand and 
ContextWrapper classes from SVN.  If anyone interested in chain 
thinks its worthwhile, maybe I'll move them to commons-chain; 
otherwise, I'll let them sit until it seems more relevant.

There's still a historic link to ServletWebContext in the 
ServletActionContext, but it seems gratuitous now that the 
ServletActionContext isn't primarily used as a wrapper; I will 
probably take that out soon.

I believe now that we have a decent grounding to begin using the 
ActionContext as the request-scoped parameter throughout Struts - I 
think it can be applied to ActionForm and Action to hide dependencies 
on the Servlet API (and in ActionForm, to finally deprecate 
ActionErrors!)

Are there any reasons not to press ahead with changes like that?
Beyond looking at further uses for ActionContext, I also want to 
start thinking about a Struts API bean which might do for the 
application what ActionContext does for the request.

Joe
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