Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy

2004-11-10 Thread Julian
Joe, I wrote a long email explaining my position and it got deleted...errrgg! Anyway, my point came down to a simple statement: Struts needs to create a config file analagous to that of Cocoon's sitemap. My reasoning is as folllows: I see a webapp framework somewhat like message oriented middl

RE: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy

2004-11-10 Thread David G. Friedman
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy Hi I am pradeep Jain . Currently I am using Struts 1.2.X . But I am facing some problems. 1.I am trying to create my own action mapping bu

Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy

2004-11-10 Thread Joe Germuska
;Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy Well, you could do that with chain now by writing an action that deferred handling to a particular chain, but I d

Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy

2004-11-10 Thread Julian
Don, Thanks for the prompt reply. Comments inline: > The difference as I see it is struts-chain benefits > the controller > process, in other words, the process that is global > to all requests. > The actual handling of the request, the "action", is > still one class. > Cocoon, as I understa

Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy

2004-11-10 Thread PJ97
L PROTECTED]> 11/10/2004 12:55 PM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy Well, you could do that with chain now by wri

Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy

2004-11-10 Thread Don Brown
Well, you could do that with chain now by writing an action that deferred handling to a particular chain, but I do like the sitemap concept as evidenced by my porting of their wildcard matching to Struts. It might be interesting for an alternate struts-config format that does allow us to stick cha

Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy

2004-11-10 Thread Joe Germuska
At 8:37 AM -0800 11/10/04, Julian wrote: Hi all, I am an avid user of Cocoon and really love the sitemap concept. I am wondering if the current direction of the struts-chain component is to only manage action chaining.IMHO, Struts is great as a controller, but not nec. for the View in the MVC

Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy

2004-11-10 Thread Emmanouil Batsis
Don Brown wrote: Well, pipelines won't work for Struts in the strictest sense, as they rely on SAX and Struts isn't an XML transformation framework. Struts could use a sitemap thingy to pass a request along actions (without having the action choose an ActionForward). I guess that could work by

Re: Struts-Chain Roadmap and Inevitable Cocoon Analogy

2004-11-10 Thread Don Brown
Well, pipelines won't work for Struts in the strictest sense, as they rely on SAX and Struts isn't an XML transformation framework. The difference as I see it is struts-chain benefits the controller process, in other words, the process that is global to all requests. The actual handling of the re