My list;
- Overhaul the AJAX plugins so that we're up to date on dojo and we have a
framework for adding other AJAX library plug-ins whilst maintaining a core
tag set.
- Overhaul message passing so that action errors and action messages could
be persisted through redirects with no user configuration or validation
issues.
- Overhaul zero configuration to allow results to be defined at method level
- Complete the move to Generics.
- Thrash the framework through a profiler to look for optimization
opportunities.
- and with the spare time; build a school in a third work country :).
Al.
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From: "Jeromy Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Developers List" <dev@struts.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:08 AM
Subject: If I had 1000 hours to give...
It's been quiet lately so I thought I'd throw something out there.
If you could give 1000 hours to the Struts 2 project, what would you do?
I would like to it become the SOA framework of choice through :
- SEO-friendly URLs become the default and users never have to think about
it again;
- allow action methods to be bound to an http method and allow results to
be easily bound to the result code and requested content type (as per REST
plugin)
- support content in the request (eg text/xml or text/json content-type),
deserialize and set the model of the action (the reverse of the REST
plugin)
- allow actions to be pojos and delete ActionSupport (without losing
implicit i18n and validation functionality)
- allow hot deployment & run-time management of actions (OSGi??)
- refactor UIBean & XWork component so there's only one model and one
template per tag and they're easy to unit test (code-generate the
wrappers/template models/taglibs)
- action scope and component scope become first-class concepts (integrate
the plugins)
- add run-time developer tools; configuration browser becomes standard in
developer mode and add a resource bundle browser
- delete all ajax-like tags and funky tags; add standard interceptors &
models to ease integration with the client-side libraries, groovy, grails,
JSF, struts1 (and others?). tags move to plugin.
- I don't have an opinion about portal support but I'm sure it's important
I think I ran out of hours already!
cheers,
Jeromy Evans
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