I believe Oleg committed a package to contrib, and is looking for help
with sample code, general testing and documentation.
David Winterfeldt wrote:
>
> What is the status of having something to load a
> service in Struts? If it is going to be a while, I
> would suggest at least adding something that could at
> least handle initialization of resources that would
> fit in with the future plans. I was waiting for
> something like this before I added the Validator so
> there could be an example using the service loader to
> initialize the Validator resources.
Oleg V Alexeev wrote:
>
> Hello struts-dev,
>
> This night I commit to the struts contributions repository
> ServiceManager - support of pluggable extensions in struts. Package
> already contains one service - FactoryService. It based on
> my early struts extension - BeanFactory, and contains its code and
> two factories to support automatic bean creation.
>
> ServiceManager uses single struts-config.xml file to read
> configuration information and lets to services add its own rules to
> the digester to support additional config sections in
> struts-config.xml. Another words - ServiceManager uses 'live' Digester!
>
> Such trick allow to store all needed config info for all services in
> application in one file - struts-config.xml.
>
> P.S. I work under comments now and I believe that samples will be
> ready shortly.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Oleg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]