Nah, you've got it all wrong. It's really quite a nice way to integrate data in to your UI tags, for example:
<ww:action name="InfoTypeLoader"> <ui:select label="'Select an InfoType'" name="'infoType'" list="possibleInfoTypes"/> </ww:action> InfoTypeLoader has a getPossibleInfoTypes() method that returns a List, for example. Without the ww:action tag, you'd have to make all your various actions do this getPossibleInfoTypes() method, which sucks. -Pat PS: I'm off to Europe for 2 weeks in like 15 minutes, talk to you guys later! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Carreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 11:21 AM Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Action Tag > Ok, having read this thread, I'm trying to figure out what the intended > use of the Action tag is. I've personally never used it, so perhaps a > discussion of the need / usage of it would make the right thing to do > more clear. I understand that the non-deterministic execution of Actions > is a real problem, so a good lifecycle model should be one requirement. > What are the others? > > I'd rather take a little time and try to do this right than put in a > quick fix. The execute tag just seems a little hacky to me, and it's one > more tag, which has non-trivial requirements of the JSP developer (i.e. > bind an Action to an id above). It also seems too much like regular JSP, > which I detest, IMHO. > > Jason > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Heng Sin Low [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:57 PM > > To: OS-Webwork > > Subject: [OS-webwork] Action Tag > > > > > > I notice the action tag and lazyvalue stuff have landed in > > cvs and it follows the 1.3 pattern which I think could be > > confusing at times. For e.g, it is not deterministic when the > > action will actually be executed and you have to be carefull > > when using the param tag with it. Exception from the actual > > execution of action are being hidden as well. > > > > For instance > > > > <webwork:action name="abc.action"> > > <webwork:param name="startRow" value="result.current"/> > > jsp content > > </webwork:action> > > > > will not work and this could be confusing for newbie. Also, > > if the action is not being reference in the jsp content, > > executing it at the </webwork:action> stage is rather pointless. > > > > May be we should just add a nested execute tag to make this > > simpler and we can get rid of all the lazyvalue stuff from > > action proxy too ( I feel it is an awkward and unnecessary solution ). > > > > for e.g, the example above can be rewritten as > > > > <webwork:action name="abc.action"> > > <webwork:param name="startRow" value="result.current"/> > > <webwork:execute> > > jsp content > > </webwork:execute> > > </webwork:action> > > > > OR > > > > <webwork:action name="abc.action" id="myaction"> > > <webwork:param name="startRow" value="result.current"/> > > </webwork:action> > > > > <webwork:execute name="myaction"> > > jsp content > > </webwork:execute> > > > > Regards, > > Low > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your > > desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-> bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
