Why is tiles-request a seperate project?

[Eric B <eb...@hotmail.com>]

Any reason why Tiles-Request is a completely separate project in github?  Why is it not at the very least part of the tiles repository in github with 
all the other tiles-* modules?

BTW - what _is_ tiles-request supposed to represent?

Thanks,

Eric

Re: Why is tiles-request a seperate project?

[Mick Semb Wever <mc...@apache.org>]

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> There's a number of really good discussions on the dev list here
> regarding the tiles-request project if you're willing to go browsing
> through it. Particularly from Antonio when the work came was voted on
> from his private branch into trunk.

And there's 

 https://blogs.apache.org/tiles/entry/abstracting_requests_and_templates

 https://blogs.apache.org/tiles/entry/autotag_autogeneration_completed

~mck

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Re: Why is tiles-request a seperate project?

[Mick Semb Wever <mc...@apache.org>]

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> Any reason why Tiles-Request is a completely separate project in
> github?  

This is best answered, in its simplest form, by the description of the
tiles-request page: http://tiles.apache.org/tiles-request/index.html

The complex answer should really come from Antonio, since he was the
architect of it and the tiles-autotag. Both these projects have done a
lot to simplify what the tiles framework really is: an implementation to
the composite pattern for view technologies; and they are both in
themselves rather valuable libraries that any view library/framework
could take advantage of.

There's a number of really good discussions on the dev list here
regarding the tiles-request project if you're willing to go browsing
through it. Particularly from Antonio when the work came was voted on
from his private branch into trunk.

~mck

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