This is a good question that deserves a wiki writeup as I'm guessing
I'll get asked it a lot :)
While chain and xwork interceptors do overlap some in theory, they
overlap very little in practice. Chain is a general purpose, chain of
responsibility pattern that is better suited, IMO, for general request
processing, initialization, decision points, etc. XWork interceptors
are more like Servlet Filters, and are specificly designed to intercept
an action execution.
Just as we discovered Chain commands were difficult to use for Struts
users (all the casting for one), Ti users will generally write
interceptors and not chain commands. Interceptors are more natural,
support around operations better due to easier use local variables, and
provider easier access to the Action they are intercepting with no casting.
In Ti, while we do use chain for general request processing, where I
think it really shines is decision points, something the CoR is built to
solve. A good example is the chain that creates a form bean. A chain
is called, and the first command that sees it can create it, does, then
returns "true" as the responsibility has been assumed. So in summary,
Ti developers will work with chains and some interceptors, while the
average Ti application will only need to know interceptors.
Hope that helps,
Don
Ted Husted wrote:
On 8/31/05, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I should really list this out on the wiki site. The short of it is XWork gives
us an Action framework, interceptor
chains, expression language support, l18n, validation, and the value stack.
Do we need both interceptor chains and CoR chains?
Would it be possible to code a Struts Request Processor using an
XWorks interceptor chain?
-Ted.
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