On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Mete Kural wrote:
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:14:03 +0100 From: Mete Kural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Where is Struts 2 going?
Great! I read the whiteboard. Do you know when the development for the portlet related aspects of Struts 2.0 may begin. I know that there are some Jetspeed developers who are interested in contributing to a project that aims to turn Struts into a portlet framework. I think that adding more committers to Struts that are coming from a portal/portlet background would be of great benefit to the development of Struts 2.0. Unfortunately, I am under-skilled for that, but I can refer some individuals to you who have the skills from the Jetspeed project, if you wish.
One approach to dealing with it has (in fact) already begun -- in the "contrib/struts-chain" subdirectory in the CVS sources is the beginnings of a refactoring of the standard RequestProcessor based on the "commons-chain" package in the Commons Sandbox. If this actually works, two really good things might be able to happen:
* It'll work for both servlets and portlets (you can see how the command implementations are being abstracted so that the chain will just do the right thing for each environment).
* It is likely to be backwards compatible with Struts 1.1 as well, possibly with some restrictions yet to be discovered.
The best way to get involved would be to check out CVS sources for both jakarta-struts and jakarta-commons-sandbox, become familiar with the code referenced above, and start making suggestions and improvements. A really good starting point would be portlet-specific implementations of all the commands that currently have only servlet-specific implementations.
Regards,
Mete
Craig
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This is a very exiting area. I am committed in both Struts-2 and Jetspeed-2.
BaTien DBGROUPS
