Hi James, I take a look to your paper and i found it very interesting. But I am wondering if every code generator are not taking the problem by a wrong way, because I saw some of them (your, one on Ted Husted's site, one made in my office, and few others which wasn't mature) and every code generator are html based. They parse the html pages and find the information needed, so they generate the action needed to populate theses data into jsp.
But when you start an application you first think to business logic, so you know which information will be on the pages. So why not do generation of code (action, actionform, jsp and struts-config.xml) from business logic API and the navigation state diagram ? I like your paper because it introduced a state diagram, and i only ever saw it in our internal codegenerator. I am working on a struts application to dynamically build a web application. Presentation part should be logic less, so it logically could be automatically build. In an hour, the core application should be available and it should not required lot of tools : only a browser to connect to a developpement server. An Ant could be packaged into the codegenerator to deploy for testing into build process. Once the navigation is ok and it work as you like, you may download the sources and only at this point do the html presentation. This is more natural when you are working on a module for a big application. Here you can use tiles and all the productivity features proposed into struts. I am at your disposition if you want more information. ;) Regards, Emmanuel Feller Senior Developper Cap Gemini Ernst & Young +33 2 51 17 35 00 phone 3716 +33 6 23 34 63 39 ----- Message d'origine ----- De : "james logsdon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> � : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envoy� : mercredi 12 mars 2003 15:54 Objet : Re: Opinions on Struts code generator - A zipped version > > Hopefully this works... > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
