On 9/6/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Martin Cooper wrote: > For six years or so, I've watched people repeatedly shoot themselves in the > foot becuse they think they want to chain actions and they _don't know_ the > consequences or their - uh - actions. The serious problem is that many - > perhaps most - developers have no idea what is going on under the covers, > and they _will_ get into problems with chaining actions, and will have no > idea _why_ they are getting into problems. There's no way I want to see us > encouraging the use of an anti-pattern that is an anti-pattern for very > good > reasons. Just because it _can_ be done doesn't mean it _should_ be done. We > are here to help users to build their applications as simply as possible. > Using techniques that have traps and pitfalls that are easily stumbled upon > is not a good way to do that. But don't we also need to explain *why* something is an anti-pattern too?
Yes. And I have explained it over and over again, until I'm blue in the face, for years, as have plenty of other people. It's all in the archives, along with the rest of the history of Struts. I just don't have the energy to go through it all again here and now. -- Martin Cooper I don't know about anyone else, but I don't accept anything as a
"best practice", or pattern or anti-pattern, until I understand why it is so, and ultimately agree with it (which means I sometimes have to change my stance on things as I understand more, but I have no problem with that). Understanding and not just accepting advice also allows you to make better decisions in the future as you can apply knowledge to other domains. It's also partly how less experienced programmers become more experienced and able to think for themselves rather than just following others' words. So, *why* is action chaining bad? What are the traps and pitfalls? Why is instantiating and calling one Action from an other bad (I understand this isn't action chaining, hence two separate questions, but the question fits here too). > Martin Cooper Frank -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM/Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of "Practical Ajax Projects With Java Technology" (2006, Apress, ISBN 1-59059-695-1) Java Web Parts - http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net Supplying the wheel, so you don't have to reinvent it! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
