Yes, this is one of my concern as well and did not response to this question in user group since i have not put enough time in it.I apologize if anyone has already asked this question, but I searched the board and didn't see it. Also, I tried the user forum first, but figured maybe this was more appropriate.
JSR 168 has the following line in it (Section PLT.16.3):
"Servlets and JSPs included from portlets should not use the servlet
RequestDispatcher forward method as its behavior may be
non-deterministic."
It seems to me that Struts needs to be refactoring to be MVC for portlets since portlets can delegate the creation of content to servlet and JSP via PortletRequestDispatcher. If there is a proper hook then Tiles can still be an intelligent assembling part of the view. Craig is the best guy to iron these issues.
BaTien DBGROUPS
I am no expert on Struts, although I have used it quite a bit. It seems that if I wanted to wrap my Struts app in a Portlet and access various actions through the PortletRequestDispatcher (the most logical approach), I would run afoul of this warning.
Lacking an implementation to test my hypothesis (*$&# IBM legal
department), I am unsure whether this actually fails or not. My gut
instinct is that it probably wouldn't, but that it may not be reliable
across implementations of servlet and portlet containers.
I wanted to get some thoughts from the Struts community about this possible issue. Also, I wanted to know what the impact would be of using RequestDispatcher's include method instead? Or at least providing the facility to portlet developers?
I apologize if I have wrongly assumed anything in my question. This is my best estimate based on what I have read.
Thanks,
Clay Richardson
W. Clay Richardson
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Northern Virginia Graduate Center
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Oh, and how is "education" supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?" - Homer J. Simpson
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