Re: PlugIn model design

2003-01-17 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David Graham wrote: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:59:24 -0700 From: David Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PlugIn model design I agree that PlugIn isn't an appropriate name. I think

Re: PlugIn model design

2003-01-17 Thread Ted Husted
] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PlugIn model design Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:45:49 -0500 The monicker PlugIn as used in Struts 1.1 beta seems like a bit of a misnomer to me. As I understand it, the PlugIn interface gives an Action init and destroy methods so it can

Re: PlugIn model design

2003-01-17 Thread David Graham
PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PlugIn model design Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:56:42 -0500 Listener might be just as misleading, since people might think they can register to receive notification when certain URIs pass through. All that happens

Re: PlugIn model design

2003-01-17 Thread David Graham
Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PlugIn model design Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:15:48 -0500 Good point. I reflexively thought of it as an interface for Actions to implement, but I suppose (without looking) that's not a technical requirement. How about LifeCycleListener then? I

PlugIn model design

2003-01-16 Thread Pankaj Dhoolia
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RE: PlugIn model design

2003-01-16 Thread James Higginbotham
- From: Pankaj Dhoolia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 2:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PlugIn model design Hey guys, Just wanted to discuss the design of the PlugIn model a bit. It seems to me

PlugIn model design

2003-01-16 Thread Pankaj Dhoolia
Hey guys, My earlier message appears in a slightly screwed up manner probably because of digital signature. So resending without it. Sorry for the trouble. Just wanted to discuss the design of the PlugIn model a bit. It seems to me that the notion of plugin is not truely a plugin. The reason

Re: PlugIn model design

2003-01-16 Thread Ted Husted
The monicker PlugIn as used in Struts 1.1 beta seems like a bit of a misnomer to me. As I understand it, the PlugIn interface gives an Action init and destroy methods so it can load and dispose of external resources. This is mainly as an alternative to loading a seperate servlet to do the

Re: PlugIn model design

2003-01-16 Thread David Graham
but PlugIn is quite misleading. David From: Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PlugIn model design Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:45:49 -0500 The monicker PlugIn as used in Struts 1.1 beta seems like

RE: PlugIn model design

2003-01-16 Thread Pankaj Dhoolia
: Thursday, January 16, 2003 4:46 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: Re: PlugIn model design The monicker PlugIn as used in Struts 1.1 beta seems like a bit of a misnomer to me. As I understand it, the PlugIn interface gives an Action init and destroy methods so it can load and dispose

RE: PlugIn model design

2003-01-16 Thread David Graham
] Subject: RE: PlugIn model design Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:15:56 -0500 But wouldn't a true notion of a PlugIn like I tried to mention in my earlier mail be useful as well. Let me take a concreete example and let's for a brief moment forget that there is any existing plug-in in the servlet framework