Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Rick Mann
I should clarify: not all our Actions are just "glue". They perform significant work when such work is constrained to the website needs (choosing what data to display). When it comes to purchases and registration, however, they are more like glue, even even more so when some functions are c

Re: Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Rick Mann
Thanks for the response, Craig. It's nice to get an answer from THE authority :-). Questions below... On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Craig McClanahan wrote: I'd definitely ignore anything about prereleases of JSF 1.0 ... that has been out for nearly two years now. A good starting place for g

Advice for Struts expert wanting to try Shale?

2006-01-06 Thread Rick Mann
Hi. I've done a couple of industrial-strength websites using Struts, Tiles & JSTL. I decided to start on a little personal project, mostly as a way to get on board with some technologies, some of which I've used before (maven 1/2, torque), some which I want to learn (JSF, Shale). I looked

Determining the "original" request URL from within a tile

2005-01-10 Thread Rick Mann
Hi. We have a tiles-based webapp. Buried down deep in a tile that gets reused in a few different pages is the need to render a link back to the current request, with a parameter added. This acts as a switch to re-render the page a bit differently. Unfortunately, request.getRequestURL() reflects