RE: html:options /

2002-10-24 Thread Couball, James
Why not have your singleton hold a reference to the bean object that carries the data? This is a classic case of any problem in computer science can be solved with an additional layer of abstraction. James. -Original Message- From: Roland Carlsson [mailto:roland.c;swetravel.se] Sent:

RE: DAO or ... ?

2002-10-14 Thread Couball, James
I recommend taking a look at the Session Façade pattern in the Java Blue Prints. No matter if you use EJBs or not, this pattern encapsulates the ideas that Simon was mentioning. Does anyone know the name of the more general pattern that doesn't involve Session Beans specifically? One of my

RE: DAO or ... ?

2002-10-14 Thread Couball, James
or ... ? How about the Command Pattern: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip68.html An EJB version is mentioned in 'EJB Design Patterns' (http://www2.theserverside.com/books/EJBDesignPatterns/index.jsp) too. jamie --- Couball, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

RE: logClassName problem under JDK 1.4 (nightly build)

2002-03-21 Thread Couball, James
Frank, The class Jdk14Logger can be found in the nightly build jakarta-commons logging project. You can get this jar at: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/nightly/commons-logging/ Hope this helps. Sincerely, James. -Original Message- From: Lawlor, Frank

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Couball, James
Depends on the project requirements. Transactions across multiple data sources being a big one. Large and scalable being another. ...what are the others? Although his words say something different, maybe Vic is arguing that MS does this better/easier/cheaper than J2EE -- not that J2EE is

Struts vs Cocoon

2002-02-13 Thread Couball, James
I am planning on a prototype application that uses MVC. I plan on using XML/XSLT to implement the view layer. I am pretty well versed with struts by now but not with Cocoon 2.x. At first blush Cocoon looks like Struts with XML/XSLT capabilities. Is this more or less correct? Sincerely,

Extending Struts (was: Boost Struts with XSLT and XML - JavaWorld.com)

2002-02-04 Thread Couball, James
I have been lurking for a couple of months now and have seen many useful extensions to the Struts framework. I am curious to understand what thought has gone into better understand how Struts can be extended in common ways such that: (1) Extensions are an add-on/plug-in rather than a rewrite of

Process in a struts project

2002-01-29 Thread Couball, James
Hello, Please excuse this slightly off topic message, but I felt that this discussion could be valuable to the group. Please ignore if you find it too OT. I don't mind suggestions for other forums for this question. My questions are listed at the end of this email, the rest is background.