Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-09 Thread Joe Germuska
At 12:11 PM -0600 1/9/05, Shihgian Lee wrote: > [D] And finally, we have a PagePrep action which operates between the return from the Action and the tiles processing. This is the thing I'm always talking about which provides us with a straightforward way to prepopulate forms, set up menus and

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-09 Thread Shihgian Lee
> [D] And finally, we have a PagePrep action which operates between the > return from the Action and the tiles processing. This is the thing > I'm always talking about which provides us with a straightforward way > to prepopulate forms, set up menus and select lists, and otherwise > shepherd data

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-08 Thread Joe Germuska
One (rather pointed) question: Being that RequestProcessor is one of the primary extension points for the Action servlet, how will this new API affect HTTPS protocol handling? I assume that the SSLExt library will have to be completely rewritten, or are you guys planning on rolling that functio

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-07 Thread Dakota Jack
Lastly, on commons-chain, the docs on Chain say A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chain} represents a configured list of * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Command}s that will be executed in order to perform processing * on a specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] Context}. Each included [EMAIL PROTECTED] Command} will be * execut

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-07 Thread Dakota Jack
So, a Chain is a Command which holds another Command. That is about it. Jack On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:44:04 -0800, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, Wendy, the first method in Chain is void addCommand(Command command); > > Jack > > On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:50:57 -0700, Wendy Smoak <[

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-07 Thread Dakota Jack
Sorry, Wendy, the first method in Chain is void addCommand(Command command); Jack On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:50:57 -0700, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Eh, I feel like I've hijacked this thread now, so let me get off this > > topic for now

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-07 Thread Dakota Jack
It is different, Wendy, if you mean commons-chain. There is an interface Command with the method boolean execute(Context context) throws Exception; There is an interface Chain which extends Command and has the methods: boolean execute(Context context) throws Exception; boolean exec

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-07 Thread Wendy Smoak
From: "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Eh, I feel like I've hijacked this thread now, so let me get off this > topic for now. Thanks for your insight though Joe! Go right ahead-- I got my answer in that I never cared about RequestProcessor, so I don't need to worry about Chain too much.

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-07 Thread Curtis Taylor
Hi Joe, Thanks for the clarification; looks way interesting! One (rather pointed) question: Being that RequestProcessor is one of the primary extension points for the Action servlet, how will this new API affect HTTPS protocol handling? I assume that the SSLExt library will have to be completely

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-07 Thread James Mitchell
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:38 PM Subject: Re: Please explain Struts Chain At 12:43 PM -0700 1/6/05, Wendy Smoak wrote: Can someone explain what Struts Chain is or point me to some documentation? I see it mentioned occasion

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-06 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Joe Germuska wrote: Well, the sequence itself is fairly static, although technically you could probably modify the chain catalogs. However, what I think you're actually asking isn't so complicated; you just want to be able to execute the chain differently, or execute different chains based on t

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-06 Thread Joe Germuska
At 9:35 PM -0500 1/6/05, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Question: Can you dynamically alter the chain sequence on a per-request basis? Well, the sequence itself is fairly static, although technically you could probably modify the chain catalogs. However, what I think you're actually asking isn't so co

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-06 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Question: Can you dynamically alter the chain sequence on a per-request basis? The reason I ask is with regard to my Struts Web Services project... Currently, it uses a custom request processor to recognize a WS request, does some preprocessing and then essentially forwards the request on to i

Re: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-06 Thread Joe Germuska
At 12:43 PM -0700 1/6/05, Wendy Smoak wrote: Can someone explain what Struts Chain is or point me to some documentation? I see it mentioned occasionally, but I can't find anything that sets out what it is, how it works, and why I might want to use it. Geez, you want documentation? Actually, I was s

RE: Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-06 Thread Jim Barrows
> -Original Message- > From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:43 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Please explain Struts Chain > > > Can someone explain what Struts Chain is or point me to some >

Please explain Struts Chain

2005-01-06 Thread Wendy Smoak
Can someone explain what Struts Chain is or point me to some documentation? I see it mentioned occasionally, but I can't find anything that sets out what it is, how it works, and why I might want to use it. Thanks, Wendy Smoak -