Hello Stefan, I am ready to discuss struts extension ways. This year I put contribution to the struts project - ServiceManager. This contrib is a attempt to make struts extensible with some kind of plugins. Now I work under next version. It is interesting for me.
Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 11:02:48 AM, you wrote: SW> Hi, SW> I am working in a (big) banking project where struts is used. We had to SW> extend struts at several spots in order to meet the requirements. Extending the SW> framework we recognized that the current version of struts is not designed for SW> extension! Yet, I think that a framework must be easily extensible because SW> the developers of a framework can not foresee all possible needs (let alone SW> solutions). SW> We had to copy and patch a lot of source code of struts to implement the SW> required extensions. While doing this we recognized several spots (in framework SW> terminology called hot spots) where hook methods would introduce great SW> possibilities for extensions. SW> In particular, we had to patch the struts-html taglib, in order to generate SW> additional html output (e.g. hidden fields, javascript) that should be SW> transparent to the JSP developer. SW> Furthermore we patched the struts servlet in order to allow asynchronous SW> request processing. Asynchronous request processing means that a user is served SW> "please wait pages" until the original request is processed. SW> I would like to contact the developers that are commiters of the struts-html SW> taglib and of the ActionServlet / Action classes in order to discuss our SW> ideas of extensibility. SW> Ciao, SW> --Stefan -- Best regards, Oleg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
