While I would be very much willing to bring FormDef in, I wouldn't want to hold up a 1.3 GA release because of it. This would take at least a few more weeks. For one thing, FormDef doesn't have methods that work with ActionContext yet, and Commands as Actions is one of the biggest new features of 1.3.
If we bring in FormDef as just another plugin, there's no reason we can't bring it in later as part of another GA 1.3 download. If we integrate FormDef into struts-config.xml, then that's a much bigger change that 1.3 shouldn't have to wait for. Hubert On 3/31/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/31/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't even know that we need a 1.3.1 build yet. > > 1.3.1 has EventActionDispatcher while 1.3.0 doesn't. I don't know > about other features. This may cause misunderstanding during upgrade, > since 1.2.9 contains EventActionDispatcher as well so 1.3.0 would have > a "hole". Why don't you either add EventActionDispatcher into 1.3.0, > or skip 1.3.0 altogether and move on to 1.3.1. > > Also, please consider FormDef as part of core distro. It is pretty > slick and nicely written piece of code. It should not take a lot of > effort to rename packages and to include it into standard distro. > Reformatting the docs also should be simple, Hubert wrote very concise > docs. > > Having waiting this long, new Struts release should be significantly > different (as in: better) than previous ones, and not only internally. > 13 months *is* long. The fact that 1.3 is being released with about > the same interval as prior versions is the reason for talking about > stagnation (I don't want to start this flame war again, I just say > what I see from where I stand). Struts has been good to me and I found > ways to work around it shortcomings, but not everyone is that patient. > > My feeling is that aside of technology purists when people say "Struts > sucks" they often mean how Struts handles input data type > conversion/validation and how it preserves (or not) entered values > between requests. Considering that more and more Struts users discover > niceties of dynabeans, FormDef comes as missing element of the > picture. For some users it can be a bigger reason for upgrade to 1.3 > than internal changes in request processor. > > There is another related product, StrutsLive! . I think it is > Apache-licensed so you may want to take a look. It seems like a > comprehensive solution, but looks heavier than Hubert's and I am not > sure is it really better (and how much better) to warrant its > inclusion into Struts. I prefer to have things as simple as possible > ;) > > Michael. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
