Re: Is Sun promoting Struts??

2003-04-04 Thread Mete Kural
Though, tight now, all the frameworks are still short of the mark, and we all have much to learn from each other. The best is yet to come. With all that we have learned about web frameworks while developing and using frameworks like Struts, Maverick, Expresso, Turbine, SunONE, WebWork, and

re: [OT] Scaffold:StorageBeanBase Use Cases???

2003-04-04 Thread Mete Kural
Thanks for the useful input Ted. I'm now working with transparent approaches now, like that used by Hibernate. Are you going to include classes to facilitate these approaches in the Scaffold package, or are they going to be in a seperate package? Do you think using JDO would be a good

[OT] Scaffold:StorageBeanBase Use Cases???

2003-04-03 Thread Mete Kural
Hi all, The Access class in commons-scaffold (http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-commons-sandbox/scaffold/) that is referred to in the book Struts in Action is deprecated. StorageBean interface is recommended in the javadoc instead. There is a StorageBeanBase class that implements

Is Sun promoting Struts??

2003-04-03 Thread Mete Kural
Hi all, Struts is featured on Java.Sun.Com at the moment! There is a link to a Struts quiz and a Servlet best practices article which mentions Struts as a best practice. Should we consider this as Sun giving its blessings to Struts? or Does the fact that Struts is featured on Java.Sun.Com

Re: Is Sun promoting Struts??

2003-04-03 Thread Mete Kural
SunONE Application Framework is a fine tool -- indeed, it aspires to provide additional functionality beyond what Struts supports (especially in the area of interfaces to model objects, and complex UI components), which make it quite suitable for building complex web-based applications. I

RE: Is Sun promoting Struts??

2003-04-03 Thread Mete Kural
in the future. But I am not knowledgeable enough to say what is ready to be standardized and what is not. Craig is probably best to speak to this. Derek Richardson -Original Message- From: Mete Kural [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:29 AM To: Struts Users Mailing

Re: Web sphere and productivity

2003-03-31 Thread Mete Kural
Eclipse is a wonderful (and free!) IDE. The other criticisms of WSAD are fair; Eclipse is lighter and quicker. How would you compare Eclipse with NetBeans? I have been using NetBeans for a couple of weeks and I like it. At first I thought it was kind of slow, but later I got a new system

JavaServer Faces - Is it OK to use it now?

2003-03-10 Thread Mete Kural
Hello, I'm beginning a new Struts-based web application project and I would really like to use JavaServer Pages in it. I know that there are notices recommending not to use the current early access implementation for production environments. I am just beginning this project so I'm thinking it

Re: JavaServer Faces - Is it OK to use it now?

2003-03-10 Thread Mete Kural
Thanks for you advice. Do you have any vague estimates on how long it will take JSF to become suitable for Struts-based production applications? a) 2-3 months b) 4-6 months c) 6-12 months d) more than 1 year Thanks, Mete - To

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Liferay Enterprise Portal 1.8 RC3 released

2003-03-05 Thread Mete Kural
Hello Everyone, Liferay Enterprise Portal 1.8 Release Candidate 3 has been released. A new feature in this release is an RSS portlet. You can download Liferay bundled and pre-configured with JBoss/Tomcat, JBoss/Jetty or Orion. Or if you wish you can download the .EAR enterprise archive file and

Re: Struts and Portlets

2003-02-26 Thread Mete Kural
PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/lportal login I prefer logging into the CVS with an IDE. When you have questions about the source, please ask them in the mailing list for which you can subscribe at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lportal-development Thank you, Mete Mete Kural wrote: Hi Vic

RE: Struts and Portlets

2003-02-26 Thread Mete Kural
JSR168 has not yet gone to community draft, so the only folks who would have such a document are EG members. You can get the current status of the JSR at: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 On this page, it says that the public draft is scheduled for March 2003 and the final draft is

Re: RE: Struts and Portlets

2003-02-25 Thread Mete Kural
Liferay has not yet implemented JSR-168 completely. This is because the specs keep on changing still. Once the specs become fairly stabilized, a.k.a. once JSR-168 hits the community, the Portlet API is intended to be implemented fully. As our friend said, Liferay is an implementation of an

Re: Struts and Portlets

2003-02-25 Thread Mete Kural
--- Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm definitely interested in making it possible to reuse Struts-based webapp things (actions, form beans, pages, business logic) in a portlet. That's going to take some refactoring and abstraction of the fundamental APIs -- but it's

Re: Struts and Portlets

2003-02-25 Thread Mete Kural
--- Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are certainly people in the world who have done this sort of thing already (Liferay, BasicPortal, etc.) for non-JSR-168 portlet APIs, so it's clearly feasible, and it's a pretty good idea. But, from my perspective, this sort of thing

Re: Struts and Portlets

2003-02-25 Thread Mete Kural
PROTECTED] wrote: http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?PortalProposal Mete Kural wrote: --- Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are certainly people in the world who have done this sort of thing already (Liferay, BasicPortal, etc.) for non-JSR-168 portlet APIs, so it's

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Liferay Enterprise Portal 1.8 RC2 is released

2003-02-25 Thread Mete Kural
Hello Folks, The Liferay team is proud to announce that Liferay Enterprise Portal 1.8 Release Candidate 2 has been released. You can download Liferay bundled and pre-configured with JBoss/Tomcat, JBoss/Jetty or Orion. Or if you wish you can download the .EAR enterprise archive file and deploy it

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Liferay Enterprise Portal 1.8 RC2 is released

2003-02-25 Thread Mete Kural
Sorry to miss this one detail. When you go to the demo page at http://my.liferay.com click on the My Liferay link on the top right corner to get to the portal login. -Mete --- Mete Kural [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks, The Liferay team is proud to announce that Liferay Enterprise

RE: Struts and Portlets

2003-02-25 Thread Mete Kural
good to me. Mete Kural wrote: Hi Vic, I read your proposal. As you say, I think it would be great to provide Struts-based verticals under a portal platform. In your proposal you have mentioned that one of BasicPortal's goals is to provide a UI that is similar

No Struts link on Sun's servlet page

2003-02-20 Thread Mete Kural
Do you know why there is no link to Struts on this Sun servlet resources page? http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/resources.html Maybe Craig can handle this one :) -Mete - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

RE: JetSpeed VS. Liferay - to Craig

2003-02-11 Thread Mete Kural
and when not? And also what do you think of this portal server called Liferay which is based on Struts? The website is available at http://www.liferay.com Thanks, Mete --- Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Mete Kural wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:41:45

RE: JetSpeed VS. Liferay - Comparison

2003-02-10 Thread Mete Kural
Hi Olivier, LifeRay is not listed at freshmeat.net Any piece of software not in their database is out of my scope :-) I told about this to the developers and now it is listed! You can view the freshmeat.net page at http://freshmeat.net/projects/lportal/ -Mete

Re: Have you looked at open-source Liferay Enterprise Portal lately?

2003-02-06 Thread Mete Kural
. -Mete --- Mete Kural [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Liferay Enterprise Portal has grown a lot. There is a new 1.8 release coming out this month God willing. I'm wondering if you guys have any comments about this portal. I want to use it in an upcoming project to build a portal

RE: Has anyone tried to use struts with Epicentric

2003-02-06 Thread Mete Kural
://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/index.html --joe -Original Message- From: Mete Kural [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:25 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Has anyone tried to use struts with Epicentric Hi Mike, You may

RE: DAO Addition to struts

2002-07-29 Thread Mete Kural
There is a comprehensive verticals framework that is Struts-based at basicportal.sourceforge.net, which is a Struts-based alternative to JetSpeed. A DAO framework is also a part of it. -Mete --- Jacob Hookom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: basicPortal comments

2002-07-27 Thread Mete Kural
Message- From: Mete Kural [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 07:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: basicPortal comments Hello Vic and others, The basicPortal presentation was very nice. Thank you for your efforts. I think providing verticals for the J2EE

basicPortal comments

2002-07-26 Thread Mete Kural
. Thanks, Mete Kural __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remote User and Logoff

2002-07-25 Thread Mete Kural
After you invalidated the session, did you create a new session by calling request.getSession(true)? I do the same think and it works. Here's some code for you: public class LogoutAction extends Action { public ActionForward perform(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest

RE: Struts Persistence

2002-07-23 Thread Mete Kural
OJB is great. (jakarta.apache.org/ojb) You can easily map your tables to objects. It works with MySQL. I recommend that you implement DAO objects that call OJB's APIs and keep all the persistence operations there. Good luck, Mete --- James Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be uploading a

Re: Struts/Container-Managed Authentication Question

2002-07-18 Thread Mete Kural
Hello Craig, --- Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using container-managed security, you either declare a security constraint (to force a login) or you don't -- there is no middle ground. However, if the user went to your second sub-app first, and then went to the

Re: Struts/Container-Managed Authentication Question

2002-07-18 Thread Mete Kural
I'd recommend putting it to the Tomcat guys, but I'm just about positive you'd have to use j_security_check (ie FORM-based authentication). Mete Kural wrote: Hi, My Struts-based webapp has two sub-apps. In the first sub-app, anybody can surf through without having to be logged

Advantages of Container-Managed Authentication ??

2002-07-18 Thread Mete Kural
Hello, So far I thought that container-managed authentication was the way to go. Why I thought so? I thought: 1) Since such authentication is implemented by experts in the field there's a much greater chance that their implementation would be much more secure to attacks then my own

Re: Struts/Container-Managed Authentication Question

2002-07-18 Thread Mete Kural
Hello Max, One thing that I want to implement is providing the login form within the home-page to make it a single-step job for them, so they'll see the login form on the side of the page when they first come in. Otherwise there are two steps involved, first click on the login

Action classes: Controller or Model.. or are the lines blurry?

2002-07-17 Thread Mete Kural
Hello, I came to the point while developing my Struts web-app that I am confused if I'm doing things the right way. My Action classes: 1) Retrieve the values submitted through html forms via ActionForm beans. 2) Make calls to a DAO (data access object) in order to make changes to the database

Re: Action classes: Controller or Model.. or are the lines blurry?

2002-07-17 Thread Mete Kural
(editUser.getEmail()); user.setAddress(editUser.getAddress()); Craig Thanks, Mete On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Mete Kural wrote: Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:27:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Mete Kural [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Struts/Container-Managed Authentication Question

2002-07-17 Thread Mete Kural
of you may know, Is there a way to log a user in with the container through a method interface inside an Action class instead of dispatching the request to j_security_constraint? I couldn't find such a method interface in the Servlet 2.3 specs. I'll appreciate any insight on this. Thanks, Mete Kural

Content Management Systems - Any advice?

2002-06-26 Thread Mete Kural
Hello All, Does any of you know a little about Jakarta Slide or OpenCMS? I'm looking for a content management system to ease website maintenance. What advice would you give on a CMS to use with a Struts-based webapp? Thanks, Mete Kural __ Do You

Re: Sub-apps Question - Urgent Help Needed

2002-06-26 Thread Mete Kural
of the old one. Craig On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Mete Kural wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:49:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Mete Kural [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: Content Management Systems - Any advice?

2002-06-26 Thread Mete Kural
Hello Mattes. I see. Well I'd rather go with an Apache project anyways. Do you know anything about Jakarta Slide? I think their admin webapp is Struts-based, but I don't know if Slide manages content for Struts-based webapps? I'd love to hear any input. Thanks, Mete --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sub-apps Question - Urgent Help Needed

2002-06-25 Thread Mete Kural
, so if you have any suggestion at all at how you think I can do this seemingly simple task of forwarding to a jsp file of another sub-app, I would greatly appreciate your help. Thank you, Mete Kural __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner

Re: hello

2002-06-25 Thread Mete Kural
Hi, Please check out these references for information on how to use Struts in general: http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/resources/tutorials.html Good luck learning Struts, Mete --- Rai, Nandkishore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to sturts and i want to know some thing about ActionForm

Sub-apps Question - Urgent Help Needed

2002-06-24 Thread Mete Kural
Hello, I've been trying to get a hold on how to effectively use these sub-apps but I'm confused about how to switch between sub-apps still after reading the few messages on the topic already in the archives. I have two sub-apps in my web-app: default and /catalog. I added the switch action to

Using SwitchAction to switch to default sub-app

2002-06-20 Thread Mete Kural
Hello, I've been trying to get a hold on how to effectively use these sub-apps but I'm confused about how to switch between sub-apps still after reading the few messages on the topic already in the archives. I have two sub-apps in my web-app: default and /catalog. I added the switch action to

Correction - Using SwitchAction to switch to default sub-app

2002-06-20 Thread Mete Kural
=/prefix= Thanks, Mete --- Mete Kural [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been trying to get a hold on how to effectively use these sub-apps but I'm confused about how to switch between sub-apps still after reading the few messages on the topic already in the archives. I have two sub