Certainly we could adopt the Cocoon model of pluggable matchers; I just used the wildcard matcher as it is easy and straight forward. Using complex pattern matching like Perl5-compatible regex as the default would be more difficult for the average developer and my guess not necessary for most cases.
Don On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Joe Germuska wrote: > Since Struts already depends on jakarta-oro, is there a reason not to > use it for doing pattern-based mapping, rather than the home-grown > methodology that's in the current builds? > > I don't have a use case for it yet, but since I was a perl hacker > before I came to Java, I speak regex reasonably fluently, so it seems > to me more useful to have the full power of regular expressions > available. > > If there are strong feelings in favor of the status quo, I think it > would be easy enough to make "matcherClassName" a property of > ModuleConfigImpl and support pluggable matchers. > > I guess technically, only Validator depends on jakarta-oro; I might > be persuaded that that's a reason to keep from adding it to the core, > maybe... > > Joe > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them > the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and > nobody thinks of complaining." > -- Jef Raskin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
