+1 Choice is good, and this sounds like something we could offer through the Contrib folder or on Struts Sourceforge.
10/16/2002 5:00:58 PM, "Byrne, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I developed a system that handles the need for having multiple >components of a Struts application (Struts, Tiles, Validator, etc) >partitioned in a modular fashion, so that independent groups could work >on their component parts without having to worry about what other groups >were doing, and yet allow for seamless integration of these components >at web application assembly time. > >It was a requirement that all of this be done without requiring >modification to Struts proper, so this is an approach that can be >layered on top of a basic Struts implementation. > >I had wanted to bring this up a week or so ago when Eddie was talking >about this topic, but was too busy then. > >The basic approach is to define a mechanism which allows module authors >to work on individual modules using "fragments" which are then assembled >into the final Struts files by Ant. The fragments are XML files which >are essentially well-formed versions of the corresponding Struts files. >The Ant process uses some style sheet tricks to collect the set of >fragments, coalesce the relevant portions of the files into the proper >sections (action-mappings, form-beans, etc) in the target XML files >(mostly struts-config.xml needed this coalescing). Identifier >collisions were avoided by a identifier prefixing scheme where each >module would have it's own prefix. > >If there's interest in examining this approach, I can go into more >detail about its operation. It worked well for us, and seems to fit the >bill for a way to address the need for modular but not totally >independent web applications. > >Steve > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:34 PM >> To: Struts Developers List >> Subject: Re: Tiles Refactorings for 1.1 compatability >> >> >> 10/16/2002 4:03:01 PM, "V. Cekvenich" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Can you wait till 1.2 Ted? >> >> All that I'm saying is that we should support specifying a >> list of struts-config files, as we do for the >> validator and tiles configs. This way people could split up >> the config files without buying into modules. Craig >> wanted to pursue modules to support URI-independance, but now >> that we done that I think we should support the >> obvious solution too. >> > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
