On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Niall Pemberton wrote: > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:58:28 +0100 > From: Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Where is Struts 2 going? > > I may have got the wrong end of the stick, but doesn't Struts overlap to > some degree with JavaServer Faces and wasn't there talk of perhaps Struts > evolving to be a implementation of JavaServer Faces? > > Is this way off base or is this one possible direction for Struts2? >
That's certainly a possibile evolution (or perhaps even a subproject), if enough developers are interested. Thanks in large part to Apache's advocacy and influence, the JCP process has been modified so that we (Apache) can even qualify for the certification scholarship (for nonprofits) and access to the TCKs and certify that our application is compliant. If we were to do that, it wouldn't be the *reference* implementation, of course, but it would certainly be an Apache-licensed open source implementation. In addition to the UI components (and their corresponding JSP tags), there are some pretty useful basic features that come for free in an implementation of JavaServer Faces, including the ability to programmatically evaluate expressions (javax.faces.el.ValueBinding) and the managed bean creation facility that generalizes the Struts notion of automatically creating a form bean into a mechanism that can create any named bean in any scope, and configure its properties. In addition, I might have a couple of ideas on how one could implement such a beast. :-). > Niall > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
