I am all for it. I was thinking the framework needs these additional
enhancements to support it though:

* A new Command to expose the ActionContext as a ThreadLocal variable
* New execute() method could then contain no parameters
* Allow returning void (equal to null), String (result/forward name), or
ActionForward

Paul

On Dec 13, 2007 2:17 PM, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Paul Benedict wrote:
> > I find it more palatable to introduce the <result> tag with a type,
> Frank
> > and Atonio. Yes, I would agree that a <forward> is a shorthand for a
> <result
> > type="forward">. I definitely do not want to build a Struts 2
> look-a-like,
> > but it does make sense for a back port for some of its good idea.
>
> Well, I wouldn't be at all against that approach either... I didn't
> suggest anything like that initially because in the past there's always
> been resistance to changes to the DTD, which this would require.  If now
>  though there's consensus that says that's the approach we'd like to
> take, I'm all for it and will happily go off and implement it.
>
> > Paul
>
> Frank
>
> > On Dec 13, 2007 2:00 PM, Antonio Petrelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 2007/12/13, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>> if we simply say that if it DOESN'T begin with a slash,
> >>> then it means something else, be it a template or class, or something
> >>> else, how would you feel about that?
> >> It seems like Tiles definition names...
> >>
> >> Antonio
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