Re: [chain] conditionals again

2003-10-23 Thread David Graham
--- Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Graham wrote: > > --- Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>BTW, there's about five ways to submit code here. Would you prefer an > > >>email attachment, a bugzilla ticket, or some other way? > > > > > > Bugzilla with attached cvs diff

Re: [chain] conditionals again

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Reddin
David Graham wrote: --- Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, there's about five ways to submit code here. Would you prefer an email attachment, a bugzilla ticket, or some other way? Bugzilla with attached cvs diff -u formatted patches. But, this is new stuff, nothing to diff... Greg --

Re: [chain] conditionals again

2003-10-23 Thread David Graham
--- Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The next step might be to try and integrate something like Struts > > Workflow and/or Tiles into the RequestProcessor chain and see what the > > > various Chains look like. > > I get about a day every three weeks to look at this, but Tiles is what

Re: [chain] conditionals again

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Reddin
The next step might be to try and integrate something like Struts Workflow and/or Tiles into the RequestProcessor chain and see what the various Chains look like. I get about a day every three weeks to look at this, but Tiles is what I'm working on. I'll share early and often. BTW, there's abo

Re: [chain] conditionals again

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Reddin
Ok, thanks for the clarification. So you're not suggesting that the branching thing was a wholesale bad idea that should never be used. You just prefer the "state checking" method for validation. I'm cool with that. Greg Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Greg Reddin wrote: I'm sorry to bring back

Re: [chain] conditionals again

2003-10-22 Thread Ted Husted
Greg Reddin wrote: If this is the case, how are we any better off with this model than we were with a monolithic request processor? Why should the commands have so much inter-dependence now that they are separate objects? Are we better off with them as inter-dependent separate objects than we

Re: [chain] conditionals again

2003-10-22 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Greg Reddin wrote: I'm sorry to bring back up a discussion that's been hashed out already, but there's something I still don't understand... I can see why it's better for every command in the chain to be executed rather than executing a "sub-chain" based on some condition. I can see the corre

[chain] conditionals again

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Reddin
I'm sorry to bring back up a discussion that's been hashed out already, but there's something I still don't understand... I can see why it's better for every command in the chain to be executed rather than executing a "sub-chain" based on some condition. I can see the correlation of the sub-ch