RE: [tiles2] Changes in tag libraries

2006-10-31 Thread George.Dinwiddie
I'm sorry, but I'm behind in my reading and haven't been paying close enough attention to the messages on Tiles 2. Could you explain the reasoning behind this change and ramifications of it? At first glance, this just sounds like more places to change as the application evolves. I checked http://

RE: [tiles2] Changes in tag libraries

2006-10-31 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Antonio Petrelli asked: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > > Antonio Petrelli wrote: > > > >> In the Struts Users and Shale Users mailing lists we (Greg and I) > >> encountered several people confused by the different meaning of > >> , so we decided to specialize this tag in > >> different t

RE: [tiles2] Changes in tag libraries

2006-10-31 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Antonio Petrelli wrote: > In the Struts Users and Shale Users mailing lists we (Greg and I) > encountered several people confused by the different meaning of > , so we decided to specialize this tag in > different tags, > I chose only the names. > And I don't think that anyone used to insert a

RE: Private Actions Mappings?

2006-09-13 Thread George.Dinwiddie
I see. You're just selecting which JSP to display with the action forward, not changing the flow of the application. Is that right? In that case, I can see some advantage over using Tiles. > -Original Message- > From: Paul Benedict [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul Benedict

RE: Private Actions Mappings?

2006-09-13 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Right, in that context including an action as a block is very much like including a tile with an associated tile controller. The action then just puts data into scope for the JSP to display. What I didn't understand was, "It can also decide the flow of display by selecting the appropriate forward

RE: Private Actions Mappings?

2006-09-13 Thread George.Dinwiddie
If you're chaining actions for different blocks of the display, how do you handle disagreements between the appropriate forward of one block vs. another? This seems problematic, to me. > -Original Message- > From: Paul Benedict [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul Benedict > Sen

RE: Private Actions Mappings?

2006-09-13 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Coming in very late, here, but I just wanted clarification. It sounds to me as if you're using actions like a tile controller. In other words, it's not performing any "action" or deciding the flow of display, but merely gathering data and putting it into scope for display. Is that a correct desc

RE: Whose log is this anyway? (was Re: [s1] Commons-Lang)

2006-08-23 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Ted Husted said: > The question is whether Struts (and XWork and Spring) should > count as part of "your application" or not. > > What's being proposed is that we take Struts out of the "my > application" logging loop, so that you are free to do > whatever you like with your own application. I

RE: svn commit: r422956 - in /struts/struts2/trunk: apps/showcase/ apps/showcase/src/main/resources/ apps/showcase/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ core/src/main/java/org/apache/struts2/ core/src/main/java/or

2006-07-18 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Would "WWcompatibilityMode" work? I can envision that there might be a desire for a "Struts1compatibilityMode" also, to help people make that transition. > -Original Message- > From: Don Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:42 AM > To: Struts Developers List

RE: Would like to remove Ant build from Struts 2

2006-07-10 Thread George.Dinwiddie
That's precisely the sort of scenario I had in mind. - George Don Brown wrote: > The one case I wouldn't mind seeing an Ant build is in the > source distribution. > Many times, I'm downloading source distros, and have to > make some change, but > I'm on a network where I don't have connect

RE: Would like to remove Ant build from Struts 2

2006-07-10 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Don Brown proposed: > I'd like to remove the Ant build from Struts 2. I don't think it has > worked for a little while and the new Maven 2 layout > discourages it for > any complex builds. Unless someone seriously wants to put the effort > into keeping it up, I think it should be removed. >F

RE: [PROPOSAL] Rename Struts Action as Struts

2006-06-30 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Greg Reddin sagely replied: > On Jun 30, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Ted Husted wrote: > > > Now, in place of "Tapestry4" and "Tapestry5". we now have > > "struts-action" and "struts-action2" > > > > * http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/struts/ > > > > which we could just rename to "struts1" and "struts2". > >

RE: [Standalone Tiles] Changing the Semantics of the InsertTag

2006-06-14 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Greg Reddin asked: > I'm not really sure what the use of the beanName and beanProperty > values are, so if someone wants to enlighten me on that, I'd > appreciate it. I would guess that's just to get the tile name from a bean property. With the availability of EL, that seems like an unnecessar

RE: Custom RequestProcessor

2006-05-25 Thread George.Dinwiddie
I note that you've declared setTeste() in ScyllaTilesRequestProcessor but you're asking it to be set in utilities.MyTilesRequestProcessor > -Original Message- > From: Miguel Galves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:47 PM > To: dev@struts.apache.org > Subject: Cus

RE: Maven 2 build working, more to come

2006-04-07 Thread George.Dinwiddie
I think that will be adequate. There may be some issues, but it should generally be possible to edit and rebuild from a distribution. Building from Subversion using Ant isn't much of a concern, for me, as I'm often working in places where firewalls prevent Subversion access, anyway. Thanks,

RE: Maven 2 build working, more to come

2006-04-07 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Don Brown explained: > The plan > is to give it a week or so, then remove all the old Ant and > Maven 1 build files. As I understand it, the Ant scripts are built from the Maven build files, right? Would it not be prudent to leave the Ant scripts in the releases for those of us working in compa

RE: Use of boolean accesor isWhatever?

2006-02-28 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Rick Reumann wrote: > (I swear though I've run into an odd situation before with an > isProperty construct before with Struts... and could have > sworn I just ran into it with an app I was working on at > work.. I'll have to check tomorrow to see where I was screwing up.) I've certainly seen su

RE: DTD publishing

2006-02-27 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Wendy, find -type f -exec chmod 664 {} ";" should do it. That will run chmod on all regular files under the starting directory. If you're in the dtd/ directory, you can just use . for that. - George > -Original Message- > From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

RE: Next steps for Action 1.3.1 (was Re: Reasons for 1.3 release)

2006-02-20 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Paul Benedict wrote: > > >> Of course, some people are already using what > >> we already have in production, so we need to be careful. > > Ted, I am really surprised to hear this. Whose fault is it > to be using alpha/beta quality code in production? Certainly > not your fault, or any commiter

RE: Checkstyle (was svn commit: r360442 [1/3] )

2006-02-07 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Which version of Jalopy are you using? I notice in http://www.triemax.com/products/jalopy/manual/braces.html it says: Sun Java style Activates the Sun brace style. Sometimes called "K&R style". Example 3.32. Sun style if (!isDone) { d

RE: Validation Security Hole?

2006-01-24 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Rick Reumann agreed: > > On 1/23/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, all they need to do is remove the positive branch > there, move is to > > wasCancelled(), and remove the rest of the if block. > > > > Anyone else see that as a reasonable solution? Is there a > flaw i

RE: Checkstyle (was svn commit: r360442 [1/3] )

2006-01-23 Thread George.Dinwiddie
To see what Patrick is talking about, you have to paste together the broken URL for the message in forums.opensymphony.com and look at his message in context. Last week, I brought up the topic that the email list, as an email list, will become useless if commenting without context becomes the norm

message style (was: Non-discussion emails)

2006-01-18 Thread George.Dinwiddie
I'd just like to point out that this message, being a simple one-liner without any context quoted back, is more appropriate to a forum than to a mailinglist, where the context is more likely to get separated from the reply. I fear that, if this style grows due to access via a forum, this mailing l

RE: [POLL] Struts Action Framework tagline

2006-01-10 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Ted Husted asked > > In the interest of effective filtering, we should agree on a > standard subject tag for the Struts Action framework. For the > Struts Shale framework, we've been using [Shale]. So, for the > other, should we use > > * [SAF 2.x] > > or > > * [Action 2.x] I'd say [Action

RE: What's in a name? (was: Sharing action invocation between SAF and Shale)

2006-01-09 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Craig McClanahan wrote: > On 1/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Craig McClanahan said: > > > One of the things we talked about at the Struts BOF at > ApacheCon was > > > ways to share technology between SAF and Shale. > > > > SAF? > > > Struts Action Framework. I

What's in a name? (was: Sharing action invocation between SAF and Shale)

2006-01-09 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Craig McClanahan said: > One of the things we talked about at the Struts BOF at > ApacheCon was ways to share technology between SAF and Shale. SAF? Is that what Struts is now being called? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

FW: WebLogic serializing ServletContext

2005-12-27 Thread George.Dinwiddie
I am very reluctant to file this as a bug in bugzilla (or reopen 28868), as it's hard for me to believe that this is really a Struts issue rather than a WebLogic issue. Bea support, of course, thinks otherwise. Can anyone tell me whether or not it is legitimate to serialize the ServletContext? -

RE: [OT] IDE Haters (Was Re: Logging in MailReader 1.3)

2005-12-09 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Frank W. Zammetti asked: > netsql wrote: > > PS: Debug is for corporate newbies. Pros don't waste time on this, > > they > > do this new thing called unit testing ;-). Realy, when > somone on my team > > is in debuger, I pull them in my office, and required that > they improve > > test coverag

RE: Request for help/suggestions on bug 37479

2005-11-28 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Craig McClanahan wrote: > * The most important reason I dislike this change, however, is an > architectural desgn issue that few in the Struts community seem > to appreciate ... an ActionForward should represent a > *logical outcome* > of an Action, not a *menu choice*. Let me explain furth

RE: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsBook" by GeorgeDinwiddie

2005-11-15 Thread George.Dinwiddie
I got the impression that the book, itself, was incomplete and unfinished. Admittedly, I did not spend 10 minutes on it, as you did. You comments may lead me to give it a second look. > -Original Message- > From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2

RE: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsBook" by GeorgeDinwiddie

2005-11-15 Thread George.Dinwiddie
It might be worthwhile to add your review (below) to the wiki page http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsBook I, for one, was put off by the language errors and general incomplete feeling of the document, but your comments would lead me to give it a closer look. > -Original Message- > From:

RE: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsBook" by GeorgeDinwiddie

2005-11-15 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Oh, I see. It's an attachment to the wiki page, and the URL is a complete red herring. Hmmm... It's a Word document and it says it's for Struts Ti. - George P.S. MoinMoin is written in python. > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of netsql > Sent: Tu

RE: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsBook" by GeorgeDinwiddie

2005-11-15 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Well, as I don't see the word "actions" anywhere on that page, I don't have a clue what you mean. > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of netsql > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:25 AM > To: dev@struts.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "

RE: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Ted Husted said: > Or, we could just forget the whole thing and have only the > individual subproject releases. The bundle isn't mission > critical; it was only meant as a convenience. Would there be any value of not versioning the bundle at all, forcing people to refer to the versions of the in

RE: FYI on website

2005-10-24 Thread George.Dinwiddie
So it is. Sorry for the bother. > -Original Message- > From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:40 AM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: Re: FYI on website > > > I thought I was seeing this last week too. Turns out it was just my > bro

FYI on website

2005-10-24 Thread George.Dinwiddie
I get different pages for http://struts.apache.org/ and http://struts.apache.org/index.html and on the former, a number of the navigation links on the left-hand side are broken. -- George Dinwiddie 410-884-6473 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to build a ship, don't drum up peo

RE: Publishing the new website

2005-10-20 Thread George.Dinwiddie
> -Original Message- > From: Wendy Smoak [snip] > The permissions on the 'old' docs that came from the .war > files are wrong-- everything is executable. (Except a couple > of them that I started to fix, but I was doing it directory > by directory. There must be a better way, b

RE: Thoughts on Checkstyle stuff

2005-08-24 Thread George.Dinwiddie
>From the peanut gallery, I'd like to second Frank's statement in the spirit of "fixing broken windows." - George Dinwiddie http://www.idiacomputing.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10

RE: ApacheCon 2005 SanDiego

2005-08-24 Thread George.Dinwiddie
May I encourage you to make some form of that talk available on the Struts website? I think it would be very valuable. > -Original Message- > From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 6:21 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: Re: ApacheCon 2005 San

RE: [shale][clay] Updating clay config file on the fly

2005-08-19 Thread George.Dinwiddie
> From: Gary VanMatre said: > I was poking around in log4j and found a very similar feature > that allows you to configure a file watch dog for the > properties files. You can't use that within a J2EE container, however, because it spawns a watcher thread. This thread is then outside the lifecy

RE: Proposed CheckStyle changes

2005-08-09 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Frank W. Zammetti said: > * StrictDuplicateCode >Duplicate code is just plain bad... not in terms of something not >working, although that is certainly possible in some > situations, but >it's just a sign of carelessness. If nothing else, I'm sure no one >wants the Struts code bas

RE: svn commit: r189997 - in /struts/shale/trunk/core-library/src/java/org/apache/shale: Constants.java faces/ShaleConstants.java

2005-06-10 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Actually, static final variables can be overridden (see below), but I was thinking of the case of someone wanting to extend a project with some optional features might want to add more constants. If they can extend the current constants class, they don't have to differentiate (or copy into their n

RE: svn commit: r189997 - in /struts/shale/trunk/core-library/src/java/org/apache/shale: Constants.java faces/ShaleConstants.java

2005-06-10 Thread George.Dinwiddie
[snip] > +/** > + * Private constructor so that this class cannot be > instantiated. > + */ > +private ShaleConstants() {} > + Why would you want to do that? This prevents someone from extending the class with their own constants. -

RE: Online Bookstore

2005-05-12 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Ted, It's actually easier than that. You can configure the wiki to link ISBN references to Amazon with your affiliate tag in the link. See http://alberg30.org/collaborate/FavoriteBooks for an example. You can also do a similar thing with ASIN references. - George > -Original Message-

RE: svn commit: r169091 [1/5] - in /struts/core/trunk/src/share/org/apache/struts: ./ action/ actions/ chain/ chain/commands/ chain/commands/generic/ chain/commands/servlet/ chain/commands/util/ chain/contexts/ config/ config/impl/ mock/ plugins/ upl

2005-05-09 Thread George.Dinwiddie
:g/ *$/s/// :-) Don Brown remarked: > > Hmm...I don't think vi has that setting... :) > > Don > > On 5/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Author: martinc > > Date: Sat May 7 09:11:38 2005 > > New Revision: 169091 > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=169091&view=

RE: ActionContext convenience methods

2005-03-30 Thread George.Dinwiddie
> -Original Message- > From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dev@struts.apache.org > Subject: RE: ActionContext convenience methods > > > At 8:23 AM -0600 3/30/05, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Me

RE: ActionContext convenience methods

2005-03-30 Thread George.Dinwiddie
> -Original Message- > From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 10:21 PM > To: dev@struts.apache.org > Subject: ActionContext convenience methods > > > I'd like some opinions from the community here. As I get back to > building out an app based around

RE: ActionConfig property map and form setup strategies (Re: POJO Actions and the ActionCommand interface)

2005-03-18 Thread George.Dinwiddie
> Dakota Jack wrote: > > I am not sure exactly what the question is. I would like a > framework solution that provides the data via ActionForms. > How people handle that data would be as undefined as it is at > the moment. The *only* difference would be that the > framework would provide da

RE: ActionConfig property map and form setup strategies (Re: POJO Actions and the ActionCommand interface)

2005-03-18 Thread George.Dinwiddie
> Joe Germuska wrote: > > At 2:36 PM -0800 3/17/05, Dakota Jack wrote: > >Suppose, Joe, that we have first.jsp and second.jsp, > >FirstActionForm.java and SecondActionForm.java. We call > MyAction.java > >as the action for in first.jsp and want to setup > the values > >in second.jsp via Sec

RE: POJO Actions and the ActionCommand interface (Re: Configuration inheritance, module init code)

2005-03-17 Thread George.Dinwiddie
> -Original Message- > From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:04 PM > To: Struts Developers List; Dakota Jack > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: POJO Actions and the ActionCommand interface > (Re: Configuration inheritance, module init cod