Hi, There's a rumbling in the not too distant future of my application, and it involves a portal implementation. This rumbling is approaching more quickly than I fear Struts 2.0 (which I'm very excited about) is. I am wondering if anyone else has already dealt with this issue.
I'd like to be able to re-use my existing forms, actions, and JSP pages to render the portlets as much as possible. It seems like there should be a fairly thin layer on top of struts that adapts the portlet environment to struts (or vice-versa). At kind of a low level, it seems that having a portlet's processAction method delegate to a specific struts action should be easy to do. Capturing the actionForward from it in the request scope so that the portlet's render method could simply include that page (forwards apparently "non-deterministic" according to the spec) also seems relatively trivial. There would have to be an obvious refactoring of the JSP pages to use the portlet tag's "actionURL" to generate action URLs for forms. So, who has converted a Struts based app to a portlet presentation method?? What were you able to reuse? What worked and what didn't?? What would you do differently if you had to do it over again? Obviously, I'd like to minimize refactoring (perhaps building adapters) and maximize reuse. :-) And when Struts 2.0 DOES come out, hopefully I've done nothing to preclude myself from returning to the fold, but that's kind of a low priority. Could a custom RequestProcessor that also implemented the Portlet interface do the job?? I just honestly don't know, and am hoping to leverage some communal experience. Thanks, -Larry This email and its attachments are confidential under applicable law are intended for use of the senders addressee only, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise, or unless a separate written agreement exists between Iron Mountain and a recipient company governing communications between the parties and any data that may be so transmitted. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws, by means of email or in an attachment to email, you may wish to select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that better supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the recipient of this message is not the recipient named above, and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse or copying or disclosure of this communication by a recipient who has received this message in error is strictly prohibited. If this message is received in error please return this email to the sender and immediately highlight any error in transmittal. Thank You --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
