Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1

2010-08-24 Thread Johannes Geppert
Hello Dave, at this point i'am not on your side. Even in the trivial cases a taglib has a benefit. A normal AJAX request with a simple indicator and an effect after completing, needs a lot of boiler plate code, which is hard to maintenance and to debug. A taglib make your JSP cleaner and you

Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1

2010-08-24 Thread Dave Newton
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Johannes Geppert wrote: Even in the trivial cases a taglib has a benefit. *Only* in the trivial cases. A normal AJAX request with a simple indicator and an effect after completing, needs a lot of boiler plate code, which is hard to maintenance and to

Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1

2010-08-24 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
As the creator of an AJAX taglib (As the developer of an AJAX taglb (http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/javadocs/javawebparts/ajaxparts/taglib/package-summary.html) I have to say... I agree with Dave :) There was a time (like, around the time I created the library perhaps?!?) where I would have

Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1

2010-08-24 Thread Johannes Geppert
*Only* in the trivial cases. Not only, but in the most cases. I have a medium size webapp and there I am happy I can do the whole ajax stuff and the simple widget stuff, like tabs and datepickers with an taglib. this is much more comfortable and to maintenance as plain JavaScript. And

Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1

2010-08-24 Thread Dave Newton
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Johannes Geppert jo...@web.de wrote: *Only* in the trivial cases. Not only, but in the most cases. YMMV; for me, my requirements are so different from project to project, including requiring different underlying libraries. I have *some* commonality, which I

Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1

2010-08-22 Thread Matthew Barrett
Newton davelnew...@gmail.com To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org; Matthew Barrett injenuity...@googlemail.com Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:18 AM Subject: Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1 On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Matthew Barrett wrote: Has anyone tried using

Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1

2010-08-20 Thread Lukasz Lenart
Take a look on jQuery plugin http://code.google.com/p/struts2-jquery/ Regards -- Łukasz + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/ Kapituła Javarsovia 2010 http://javarsovia.pl - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1

2010-08-20 Thread jordi
We're using full dojo 1.5 but without any tag library and we are very happy with it. We stopped using the plugin long time ago... it was always far away from latest dojo release On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Lukasz Lenart lukasz.len...@googlemail.com wrote: Take a look on jQuery plugin

Re: Ajax support for Struts 2.2.1

2010-08-20 Thread Dave Newton
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Matthew Barrett wrote: Has anyone tried using the full Dojo within Struts, rather than just the historic built in tag libraries. Sure. It's just like using anything else without tag support; you use it as you would with any back end system. And personally, for