> I hate the fact that the word "service" is so overused, but in this context
> it would be an implementation of an interface residing at the request scope
> of an application.
>
> I'm still pushing for a lightweight, application level service framework
> within Struts, I'm just working on a proof of concept and some real code
> before I go and introduce anything, probably not a great move community-wise
> on my part.
>
> For people unfamiliar with the service framework I'm talking about,
> basically it's a set of standard interfaces for common application
> functionality such as localization, device detection, object pooling, etc.
> The most common functionality would be included with implementations with
> Struts, more time-intensive implementations could hopefully be represented
> as a set of plugins/adapters for commercial vendor products that provide
> that functionality.
There is already a functional services framework in Turbine, is
there anyway we could work together on this?
jvz.