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Michael Rimov wrote:
Hey Folks!
Craig McClanahan has asked me if the Expresso community could review the
Commons-Resources package. Struts itself [and thus, indirectly
Expresso] will eventually be based off of it.
What is it? An I18N package for dealing with different properties
files. Check out the sandbox page for the rationale for the creation.
It basically is an API with a few implementations. Craig says that
DB-based resources will eventually be added. [or at least a hook]
So!
Since the direction of Struts directly affects the direction of
Expresso. Could we get some folks to take a look at:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/resources/index.html
And report back:
1 - Is there anything API-wise that MUST be changed for our own use? If
so, now is the time to give Craig some critical design feedback so he
can get things changed while resources is still in the sandbox.
An issue that has come up in the Struts-dev mailing list is the fact
the java.util.ResourceBundle supports `parent' attribute. Meaning
ResourceBundle can be delegated. I am not sure that common resources
has this support in it.
2 - Does it have anything worthwhile design wise to adopt directly into
Expresso?
Since we use the Struts 1.1 MessageResource already I dont see anything
at mo...
3 - Is it usable? ie, can you see how to code it straight away without
a lot of extraneous code?
If you know the Struts API then it looks vaguely familiar. If haven't
used the Struts API before then YMMV.
The interesting thing is that common resources was a way to let Struts
developer move the application resources from a flat file to a
database. This might be interesting for implementing a `personalisation'
by storing application resources inside a simple name/value database
table. I suppose you can do the same with an implementation that
uses a `DBObject'. I am wondering how would plug-in your DBObject
application resource implementation into Struts.
Worth investigation?
Thanks folks in advance!
-Mike
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