I presume you're referring to the fact that Michael Jouravlev's flavour of DispatchAction uses the ".x" and ".y" suffixes which HTML appends to image button parameters to determine the method to execute as being "code purloined from Michael McGrady"? (If not, then what?)
I agree that, to my knowledge, Michael McGrady was the first person to propose this technique on the Struts mailing lists/wiki, but to claim that it is not possible for anyone else to come up with the same idea and that they must have "purloined" it from his web site is ridiculous - its not exactly rocket science. In fact the forerunner of Michael McGrady's idea was the Struts ImageButtonBean which used similar techniques for the same purpose. Michael Jouravlev has already stated on this list that he didn't steal this idea from anyone else and since he wasn't around on the Struts lists when the ideas were being discussed (about a year ago) I don't see any reason not to believe him. Even if the basis of his code did come from Michael McGrady's idea, there is no issue of ownership anyway - since Michael McGrady posted his code on the Struts wiki he therefore "donated" it to the Struts community. I can't post a link to it on the wiki, because he subsequently removed it - but I did find the following "wiki change message" in the dev list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@struts.apache.org/msg03379.html If you still think there are ownership issues, then you need to raise them on the bugzilla ticket to which Michael Jouravlev has posted his code - otherwise your comments are likely to get lost here on the user list. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30292 Niall P.S. Are we still pretending that Dakota Jack and Michael McGrady are not the same person? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dakota Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 6:18 AM This code does not belong to Michael. It is purloined from www.michaelmcgrady.com and other discussion on this list. Michael did not even know the reasons for most of the code when he first proposed it as his own. To think he could have coded it under those circumstances would be akin to expecting a monkey to randomly type a novel. So, I would be very hesitant, if I were a committer, to accept his authority to offer this code. On 7/21/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whoa, finally! I uploaded a patch, well not a patch, a full source > code for SelectAction, which replaced DispatchAction in my projects. > It handles pushbuttons, image buttons and regular links uniformly and > allows to set an arbitrary caption for a pushbutton, which does not > relate to a method name. It does not use "parameter" attribute of > action mapping. > > Source code is here: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15739 > Javadoc is here: > http://struts.sourceforge.net/javadocs/strutsdialogs/net/jspcontrols/dialogs/actions/SelectAction.html > > It would be great if someone tried it instead of LookupDispatchAction > before I start begging committers to check it into Struts codebase :) > > Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
