New project homepage: http://struts.sourceforge.net/strutsdialogs/
According to survey http://jmikus.freepolls.com/cgi-bin/polls/001/poll_center.htm , about 60% of Struts developers use form beans for both input and output, that is, as temporary I/O buffer. If I am not mistaken, JSF calls these buffer objects "backing beans". So DialogAction goes with the flow, utilizing form bean for both phases of I/O. Check out the demo of Login Control: http://www.superinterface.com/strutsdialog , the last two links. It uses same action URL for two different pages, and shows a page which corresponds to current control state. A control can be refreshed at any time, and there is no access to stale page, so double submit is impossible (except sucky Opera). Now think that you dropped this control onto JSP page. Whenever you refresh the main page, the control would show current app state. Portlets for poor ;-) The project will be enhanced with concrete types of controls, like improved Login Control, that was shown as a demo. You are encouraged to create your own controls. ASP.NET 2.0 will have a lot of them, now Struts has viable alternative. This is second and the last announcement of Struts Dialogs on this week, so please don't write me that I self-advertise too much ;-) Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
