I think Bob's got a bad case of ColdBoxitis... ;) "put everything in  
the 'Box, and I mean EVERYTHING!!"

You gotta know I'm teasing, yeah? Seriously...

Anyway, as for a respository, AFAIK the only repository of actionpacks  
is in the Model-Glue SVN repo at 
http://svn.model-glue.com/trunk/modelglueactionpacks 
  if that's what you're looking for. Other than that there aren't  
really any other sites that have an actionpack library. My suggestion?  
Start putting MG actionpacks on RIAForge.

And, redundantly and for the record, my opinion is that Model-Glue is  
a configuration-based framework and there are plenty of convention- 
based frameworks out there. I think that deliberately adding  
exceptional cases to anything is as bad an idea as there is, and that  
one broadcast isn't an intolerable quantity of work. While I  
understand the arguments for it, I would dispute the notion that it's  
actually less work in a big-picture analysis and I would only support  
a configuration-based solution if one were ever to be provided as an  
actionpack. MG's vision has never been to supply ancillary services  
like this except thru the actionpack API and I don't think there's any  
reason to distract the team with things that don't apply to the  
framework's vision.

In the end, someone who knows MG comes to an MG application expecting  
to follow the application execution path thru the config file. If I  
were to end up supporting an app where someone added something like  
this convention-based approach to file uploads I'd be... umm...  
well... OK, to be honest? Pissed. Why? Because it totally defeats the  
shining truth that is Model-Glue: consistent, self-documenting,  
obviated application operation and architecture. Hiding things in  
oRS() just makes application support more difficult.

All opinions expressed here are solely the property of the expresser  
and not to be taken in any other way. :)

J


On Oct 20, 2009, at 3:27 PM 10/20/09, Bob Silverberg wrote:

> I suppose the only advantage to baking it into the framework would  
> be that developers wouldn't need to locate and install an actionpack  
> as a separate step. Is there some sort of repository for MG  
> actionpacks?


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