At 2:17 PM -0400 10/4/05, Chris Bredesen wrote:
Hi Group,
I'd like to create an implementation of MessageResources that is backed
by Spring-sourced database accessors. I can't seem to get ahold of
ServletContext form anywhere inside the MessageResources classes, and as
such I cannot obtain my WebApplicationContext reference. Is there
something I'm missing?
I doubt it. I have to admit that I haven't reviewed this recently,
but I seem to recall feeling that the inability to do this evidenced
a design flaw in the resources API.
I think that generally speaking, the route which Struts provides for
you involves changing the implementation of ModuleConfig, but here is
where throughout one sees signs of Struts development before the
paradigm of Dependency Injection took hold. In many places, Struts
is too committed to a single way of obtaining implementations of
various interfaces -- if you look in ActionServlet, you see that it
will only let you get a ModuleConfig implementation from a
ModuleConfigFactory, and you can only get a ModuleConfigFactory by
using the static getFactory() method provided by ModuleConfigFactory.
This is one of the next big things about Struts that I'd like to see
fixed, although my own development time for it will be short for a
while -- I'd like to reorganize the processes by which Struts
assembles its key functions so that it is easier to inject different
kinds of behavior along the lines of what you suggest. It should be
possible to do this relatively gently, so as to preserve backwards
compatibility while opening things up. If you're interested in
getting deeper into the question and working on solutions, I'd invite
you to bring this discussion over the the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
Joe
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