Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
This is the same thing except giving the real problem, JSF force fit into Struts, more importance. This intensifies rather than solves the problem. Action and JSF are two different web frameworks. That is the bottom line. Adroit talk, fancy speeches, etc., cannot change that and only serve to di

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
These are not "camps" of a framework but competing frameworks. That is the bottom line. Struts is dying and you guys, Gary, are killing it. Why not man up and get your own space and try to survive on your own? On 6/21/06, Gary VanMatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Ted Husted" <[EMAIL P

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
I laughed when you were made a committer, Michael. That convinced me that the end was inevitable. However, this I don't find at all funny. I really would like to see Struts succeed. On 6/20/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/20/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
Why in the world cannot you people see that JSF just does not fit? Is it impossible to accept the truth? Would Craig be too angry? On 6/20/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, it would be helpful to find a good way to make JSF easier to use in a conventional Action-based application

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
That's right. The problem is the presence of any and all JSF hacks. On 6/21/06, Alexandru Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everybody! I've read this thread a couple of times, because I was having a somehow weird sentiment while doing it. Now, I think I have figured it out :-). So, please

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
Struts is not advocating a preference? The Orwellian Speak continues. Struts is Action. Struts is NOT JSF. Struts does not have a preference because Struts IS one of the alternatives and one of the alternatives is NOT Struts. I get a kick out of Don calling people willing to state that the kin

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Konstantin Priblouda
( I send this off list - I hate struts flamewars ) Jack, you are saying right things to people who fail to understand them... Struts was already brain-dead in 2001, and they will fail to assimilate webwork properly. (I will be first in line to fork it or apply to comimter status at opensym

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
Heh, I have an idea, since JSF is so independent, why don't you start an open source project for JSF? Then we could see if people really want it and we could begin to tell what in the h -- e -- l -- l is going on with Struts. On 6/21/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The short an

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
Finally! On 6/21/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/21/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If that means a (hopefully amicable) divorce, then so be it. If that's what the people working on Shale want, I doubt that the PMC would oppose a change of venue. If that is th

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
You cannot marry a pig and a fox, Don. Let's get honest. The only thing that is ever going to satisfy Craig is to get the Struts name for JSF, period. Let him go ahead and try to make it on his own. That won't work and its failure will keep JSF from continuing its trampy attempt to integrate w

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
The obvious truth is so easy to state. Thanks, Tim. On 6/21/06, Tim O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...we're dealing with the ramifications of dismantling Jakarta from years ago.I actually think that this situation would have never arose if Struts and Shale were two sibling subprojects

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
This is so odd. You begin by recognizing the problem and trying to hide it. Now you deny the problem and want to continue it in spades. Everyone who knows anything about frameworks sees that these two frameworks are inherently incompatible. They have been from the start. That is the problem.

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
Thanks, Ted. Well said! On 6/21/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/21/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I put this proposal out to help bring us together, > not precipitate a "divorce" :) We're not "divorcing" Tiles. Neither did we "divorce" any of the components that now

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
The "Front Controller" is not really a controller. It is a child's tool for people who are challenged by OOP and need tool help. On 6/21/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Comments interspersed. On 6/21/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Craig, thanks for your honesty a

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
The problem is that there is no common ground. Pretence is great, but not really effective. It will bit you in the butt later. On 6/21/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You make a lot of good points, and a strong argument for rallying around the JSF flag. To this end, Shale is a great

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
The success of Spring is not that "people like modularity". On 6/21/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ted Husted wrote: > So, in addition to including the Action 1.3 JARs in the SAF 2.0 > release, essentially, you are suggesting that we also include the > Shale 1.x JARs in the sa

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
It would be impossible to pull off. Since Struts and JSF are inherently incompatible, there would be a my way or I will run away from home from Craig and an unwillingness of the Struts community to quit a true controller based framework. There is no way to make this marriage work. On 6/21/06, P

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
What is the problem? Who caused it? Bingo! Eureka? On 6/21/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Benedict wrote: > I don't see the point in bundling Shale into a "Struts 2.0" distribution. No > offense to anyone who develops Shale, but when we have packages called > "action2", it mak

Re: Continnum Is Up

2006-06-22 Thread Ted Husted
Over on the infrastructure list, there's a thread about MyFaces is running a nightly build for ADF in their Zone, and no one squawked, so I'd say go for it. -Ted. On 6/21/06, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, I've added Action 1, Action 2, and Shale to Continuum. We need to decide

Re: Location for nightly builds

2006-06-22 Thread Ted Husted
AFIAC, you're doing the work, and you can make the decision. :) -Ted. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Gary VanMatre
>From: "Dakota Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > These are not "camps" of a framework but competing frameworks. That is the > bottom line. Struts is dying and you guys, Gary, are killing it. Why not > man up and get your own space and try to survive on your own? > I'm not opposed to Shale moving o

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Greg Reddin
On Jun 21, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Ted Husted wrote: We like to chatter about what's best for Struts, or what Struts is, but I think the key question is what's Shale, and what's best for Shale? I remain concerned that, after two years on a greenfield, there has not been a GA release of Shale. I have

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 6/21/06, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Again, Struts Action and Struts Shale would both retain their separate projects, codebases, and release cycles. Struts 2.0 is about building something on top of our Struts efforts to create a unified front to users. Users don't care about all th

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 6/22/06, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is going to be short, both because I'm on a deadline and because I think the important points have already been covered. I'm not in favor of distributing Shale as a library behind a Struts 2 that promotes the Action 2 controller. Shale's s

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Niall Pemberton
My 2 cents. I agree with Don that we have created "user" confusion by having two competing frameworks. However I think if we're going to continue to have both then they should both be "first class citizens" - rather than relegating Shale. Personally, user confusion is secondary IMO to whether th

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 6/22/06, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P.S. I was at a Sun "java roadshow" this week - they were putting out the message that Shale is the next Struts I've seen this several times. People should clarify what they mean by this. Is it more like "The Queen is dead. Long live the

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Ted Husted
On 6/22/06, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem with moving it is that we have to set up all the infrastructure to support it. Not just the bureaucracy of its own TLP and PMC, but the spreading thinner of the people involved. For example, how many Apache projects can somebody lik

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/22/06, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/22/06, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is going to be short, both because I'm on a deadline and because > I think the important points have already been covered. > > I'm not in favor of distributing Shale as a library behind

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Ted Husted
On 6/22/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the meantime I want to make sure that SAF1 will not be simply removed from source repository just because SAF2 is the official future. The future belongs to the volunteers willing to do the work. So long as we have volunteers to work o

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
Where is lives is less of a concern, but I'd be happy either as a TLP or as part of MyFaces. I'm very glad that Shale was accepted here and given time to grow and develop a community, but I think it's time to find a new home. I'd like to see Struts (the project) return to a focus on building

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 6/22/06, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about a "generic" Faces project, like portals or ws ? Apache Faces. To me Shale fits fine into that. There - in an apache faces land - is enough space for: Myfaces Tomahawk Tobago Shale Sandbox (well, our sandbox) and soon Trinida

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
To me it makes more sense to have an Apache Faces TLP with lot's of subprojects. MyFaces as TLP is sometimes confusing too. Why all these component libs. For instance you can't mix Tobago with Tomahawk. ... but you can use Tobago with each JSF impl so, hey I am +1 for a Apache Faces TLP and +1

Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Benedict
What is the status of 1.3.5? It sounds like it's almost baked. By the way, I am volunteering to continue adding features to 1.x. Michael says he is also. I read today Niall is too. Who else on the team still wishes to add features for this codebase? Just looking to know who is on the "inner tea

Re: Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/22/06, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the status of 1.3.5? It sounds like it's almost baked. By the way, I am volunteering to continue adding features to 1.x. Michael says he is also. I read today Niall is too. Who else on the team still wishes to add features for this c

Re: Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/22/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just created a first draft of what I envision as part of updated 1.3 documentation that describes new features for 1.3 ;-) http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsComponents The WAR file is attached, see the bottom of the page. The WAR cont

Re: Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Cooper
On 6/22/06, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the status of 1.3.5? It sounds like it's almost baked. By the way, I am volunteering to continue adding features to 1.x. Michael says he is also. I read today Niall is too. Who else on the team still wishes to add features for this co

Re: Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Benedict
Well... What are the ramifications of removing bugzilla? Can we just get rid of any bugzilla links we have on our site? Advertise jira. Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/22/06, Paul Benedict wrote: > > What is the status of 1.3.5? It sounds like it's almost baked. > > By the way, I

Re: Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Cooper
On 6/22/06, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well... What are the ramifications of removing bugzilla? Not sure what you mean by this. There's a great deal of history in there, and thousands of references into it from mail threads, etc. I wouldn't want to see that go away. Can we just

Re: Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread Paul Benedict
I didn't pay attention to the JIRA migration, but I thought all bugzilla tickets were imported to JIRA. If that's true, do old email links matter? I mean, bugzilla won't be the eternal bug system -- eventually it will be displaced. Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/22/06, Paul Bened

Re: Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread James Mitchell
I will be helping with *all* of Struts (1.2.x, 1.3.x, 2.0 and Shale) for quite some time. I ain't going anywhere! -- James Mitchell On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:22 PM, Paul Benedict wrote: What is the status of 1.3.5? It sounds like it's almost baked. By the way, I am volunteering to continu

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
Who would "they" be? Did anyone notice that Craig resurrected the failing JSF for Sun? I really like Sun but this has to be the worst thing they have managed to back. On 6/22/06, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My 2 cents. I agree with Don that we have created "user" confusion by

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
I see a lot more than "user" confusion, Niall. I see total confusion. On 6/22/06, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My 2 cents. I agree with Don that we have created "user" confusion by having two competing frameworks. However I think if we're going to continue to have both then they

Re: Does Struts really need two frameworks? (long)

2006-06-22 Thread Dakota Jack
I am just trying to figure out how all the movement the last few years fits into this supposed picture of reality. How does Shale fit into this? How does WebWorks fit into this? This is mere words without any inkling of the reality of what happens on Struts. On 6/22/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread Jeff Turner
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:36:47PM -0700, Paul Benedict wrote: > Well... What are the ramifications of removing bugzilla? Can we just > get rid of any bugzilla links we have on our site? Advertise jira. A better solution would be to modify Bugzilla to let users know when a bug has been superceded.

Re: Status of 1.3.5, 1.x, and loose ends

2006-06-22 Thread James Holmes
Hey Paul, I'm interested in seeing Struts 1.x maintained as well and will contribute time to that effort. James On Thu Jun 22 20:22 , Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >What is the status of 1.3.5? It sounds like it's almost baked. > > > >By the way, I am volunteering to continue addi