Hello Michael,
I want to suggest you another approach to integrate Struts and
Expresso - use ServiceManager as connector with Struts.
Contrib directory of Struts HEAD branch contains Service-Manager and
ServicesServlet with support of ServiceManager. Main idea of it - to
stop extending of ActionServlet and make pluggable mechanism for
struts extensions. ServiceManager lets developer to write his own
Service and use common struts-config.xml to store config about
connected services. Each service can place its config to the
struts-config too, to the special section.
ServiceManager config contains description of core processing points
of struts - preprocess, validateBefore, validateAfter, etc. All
services can subscribe to the registered processes. At some processing
point, preprocess, for example, ServiceManager pass throw
subscriptions to this process and perform calls to the all subscribed
services.
P.S. Now I attempt to build samples of using for ServiceManager. But
24 hours is so short to perform all activity...
Friday, July 20, 2001, 1:12:56 AM, you wrote:
MN> Hello All:
MN> I'd like to request any input and comments that you might have on our design
MN> & efforts to integrate Struts with Expresso (an open-source app framework,
MN> but with a different "tilt" than Struts). Expresso is designed to allow this
MN> kind of integration, and we think it looks like a pretty good fit from our
MN> perspective, but would appreciate any and all comments on what we're doing &
MN> how we're going about it.
MN> Feel free to email me off-list if you prefer, or post to the Forums or
MN> mailing list on our site at http://www.jcorporate.com
MN> We've got an initial plan on how we're going about the integration that was
MN> submitted by one of our contributors on the site at
MN> http://www.jcorporate.com/html/products/expresso/struts_integration.html,
MN> and most of what's discussed in that is either done or well underway. There
MN> are no mods required to Struts itself, and the changes for Expresso are
MN> pretty straightforward.
MN> Thanks!
MN> Regards,
MN> Mike
MN> Jcorporate Ltd.
MN> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MN> http://www.jcorporate.com
