Oleg:
Thanks - I will definitely check into this immediately. We had not actually
begin doing any extensions to ActionServlet, so your timing is perfect. We
definitely want to accomplish this integration in a way which best fits
Strut's architechture, so this is an important tip.
Regards,
Mike
Jcorporate Ltd.
http://www.jcorporate.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg V Alexeev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Input requested on Expresso integration
>
>
> 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
