I'll happily submit the topics stuff as a patch but it's not *quite* that straight-forward as there's a bit of structural code (albeit all in one .js) file for it as well. I think we do need that strategy/design discussion before we proceed.
Some initial thoughts: - I think it is much better to maintain the struts/jquery integration code in one (or maybe more) .js files which are included in head, rather than embedding increasingly complex .js code in the templates. This will be much easier to maintain in the long run and allows us to support additional templates without duplicating js code (I quickly realized this when I was initially supporting javatemplates as well as freemarker). - We need to be clear on what bits of jquery we will support (this is mainly about widgets) - I like the initial suggestion to support only the 'officially' released widgets as tempting as it may be to support some other cool ones. I think this will help prevent some of the dojo issues. We can make sure that adding custom widgets isn't to difficult to make up for this restriction (I've given an initial attempt at this already.) - With jquery and the loose coupling provided by topics, I think we can make the plugin provide powerful yet easy-to-use out-of-the box functionality while still remaining open and highly extensible for advanced users. However, I think we should be clear on how we do this - what are the important extension points, how do users provide custom widgets etc... - Eric On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Rainer Hermanns <herma...@aixcept.de>wrote: > Hi, > > the implementation looks really awesome and I'd really like to see this > plugin in the core of Struts2. When we talked about the simple ajax tags > we want to build, we were already talking about jQuery as the foundation. > > I'm really happy, that Johannes implemented this plugin and it is now > ready to use and I will definitely use it. > If we bring it into Struts2 core, I'm also willing to support this plugin > and help to maintain and extend the functionality. > > > I would like for us to define some strategy for this, and don't let > > drag for months. Do we all agree that bringing this into the sandbox > > is a good idea then? > Here is my +1, but maybe we should call a formal vote on this? > > cheers, > Rainer > > -- > Rainer Hermanns > aixcept > Willibrordstraße 82 > 52134 Herzogenrath - Germany > w: http://aixcept.de/ > t: +49 - 2406 - 979 22 11 > f: +49 - 2406 - 979 22 13 > m: +49 - 170 - 343 29 12 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org > >
