Craig and Jason,
+1, and I'd like to help out on this as much as possible.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Struts Message Resources
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Jason van Zyl wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to use the message resources utilities in Struts
> > to make a pull tool in turbine for localizing messages.
> >
> > Craig, do you have any thoughts? Is there any other locale
> > utilities that people know about? Could we make a little
> > locale utility package possibly?
> >
>
> +1000 on having a message resources gadget in Commons
>
> +0.5 about using the one from Struts, other than as a starting point. I
> don't think I've got all the abstractions quite right -- but I'm sure this
> crowd can fix it :-). If you like, I'll check the appropriate stuff into
> the sandbox so we can start hammering on it.
+1
> One meta-issue that I ran into with Struts (and the reason that I'm not
> using ResourceBundle underneath) is that some app servers want your
> servlet context attributes (as well as your session attributes) to be
> Serializable. This probably won't affect Turbine (which, I gather,
> prefers singletons using global statics for stuff like this), but will
> affect others who want to store message resources in the servlet context.
>
> > I would also like to make an XMLMessageResource class
> > so I figured we might put these utilities in a place they
> > can be shared.
> >
>
> Sounds good. There's also been talk on the Struts list of an
> implementation that looks up message strings in a database as needed.
Right, exactly. Any source :-)
> > --
> > jvz.
> >
>
> Craig
>
> > Jason van Zyl
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity
> > http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine
> > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons
> > http://tambora.zenplex.org
> >
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jvz.
Jason van Zyl
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http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons
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