So, now that 1.0.1 is in the queue, we may want to make some decisions regarding 1.1.
[taglibs] Personally, I think the existing changes to the tags along probably justify a release on their own. Though, we need to add some documentation there. Arron's nested taglib looks pretty cool, and I'd like to slip that in too. [Tiles,Validator] The next question is whether David and Cedric are interested in proposing their components to Taglibs or the Commons, or would prefer to leave them here. Your call, guys. I believe that you have both indicated an interest in broadening the audience for this components, so I say go for it. Of course, we would add both to the Users Guide, and may even end up requiring the JARs as we do for the Commons components. [JARs] How do people feel about making the rest of the Struts JARs more granular? Maybe we should be breaking this up so each package or taglib gets its own JAR, so we could have struts-action.jar struts-actions.jar struts-html.jar struts-logic.jar struts-bean.jar struts-template.jar struts-upload.jar struts-util.jar I think the general trend is toward finely-grained JARs. Down the road, I could envision people using the struts-action.jar, but not needing any (or all of) the taglibs. [Role-Based Actions] I'm going to try and get Nic Hobb's security package in play next week http://husted.com/struts/resources/struts-security.htm and if it lives up to its reputation, I would probably want to commit it. Would anyone have any qualms with this? [Declarative Exceptions] Any ideas about how we could put this into play using its own signature (throwing Exception) and still support the original signature. I like the idea, but I would also like to do it right. This won't be the last time a problem with changing signatures comes up. There would be ways to do it using a different base Action, but that gets messy as a standard approach. This might be a 1.2 issue anyway, since there hasn't been a working package out there for people to use. Now that Martin's tapped the keg, we might start thinking in terms of more rapid releases. We might even start taking notes on a Struts 2.0, that might make changes that would be a Good Thing, but would break too much of the 1.0 base. Many of the class names comes to mind ;-) I mean how many things can we call "Action" anyway ;-) The 2.0 codebase might also leverage filters and other new technologies. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Custom Software ~ Technical Services. -- Tel +1 716 737-3463 -- http://www.husted.com/struts/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
