I think a key question is whether Tiles will still be easy to use
outside of Struts.
I know David would like his Validator to be useful outside the
framework, and it should be easy for people to get the Validator, or
Tiles, regardless of whether they use Struts.
I wonder if we want to turn the contrib area into something more like
the Commons or Taglibs areas, where the packages would be built
seperately and available for individual download. Maybe this should be
an "optional" area instead.
Personally, I would like the main struts.jar to be as compact as
possible, since this needs to be replicated for every Web application on
a server. If convenient, we could call the optional packages
struts-validator.jar and struts-tiles.jar, to link them all together,
but let those that use them (me! me!), include them.
Cedric, I've lost track of the changes you needed to make to enable
Struts integration with Tiles. Is this anything that could be done with
Oleg's ServiceManager?
-Ted.
Cedric Dumoulin wrote:
>
> "Components framework" will be renamed "Tiles framework".
>
> Integration in Struts is a work in progress. I have already rename
> packages and updated webapps.
> I still need to update documentation and tutorial. Checkin will come
> very soon.
>
> Question is : how do we distribute it with Struts ?
> I can put it in the contrib section, but what about the Struts build
> process ?
> Tiles framework originally comes with 4 apps.war. I think to reduce it
> to 2 apps.war (doc and tutorial).
> My idea is to integrate build process of these apps.war in the Struts
> build process (by calling appropriate build.xml in Tiles), and have two
> new apps.war in the struts dist. Does this sound ok ? Is there any other
> ideas ?
>
> Cedric
>
> Tiles sites :
> http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/
> (mirror) : http://www.geocities.com/cedricdumoulin/tiles/
