svn commit: r351793 - /struts/site/trunk/DRAFTS.txt

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Author: husted
Date: Fri Dec  2 10:23:21 2005
New Revision: 351793

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=351793&view=rev
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* Add draft announcement regarding the proposed WebWork merger.

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    struts/site/trunk/DRAFTS.txt

Modified: struts/site/trunk/DRAFTS.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/struts/site/trunk/DRAFTS.txt?rev=351793&r1=351792&r2=351793&view=diff
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 For more about Tiles, visit the Struts Tiles website [http://struts.apache.org/struts-tiles/].
 
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+[ NOTE: More "quotes" from committers would be great! ]
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+Apache Struts and Open Symphony WebWork communities to merge 
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+13 Dec 2005 - Apache Struts, the leading web application framework for Java, and Open Symphony WebWork, a leader in technical innovation, are working to merge their codebases and communities. 
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+"A merger is an elegant approach to evolution of existing applications based on action-oriented frameworks," said Craig McClanahan, founder of the Struts project. 
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+The merger seems like a win-win for the frameworks. "The technical benefit is that WebWork has already done most everything that is on the Struts Action roadmap," noted Ted Husted, a Struts committer. "This is a way that [Struts] shops can use incremental integration to take advantage of new technologies that are already part of WebWork, like Spring and Rife."
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+"My hope is to take advantage of a larger community (Struts) to allow all of us to do a bit less individual effort." said Patrick Lightbody of WebWork. "I would expect moving to Struts lets us focus on our families and day jobs a bit more."
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+Apache projects help developers balance day jobs with volunteer work through the practice of collaborative developement. Decisions are made jointly by the core community, rather than by one or two key individuals. The projects are organized so that individual developers can focus on other matters for a time, and then return to the development community as schedules allow. 
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+Over the past few months, Apache Struts has more than doubled its number of active committers. With the addition of two WebWork developers, there are about fifteen active volunteers. Right now, about half of the committers are working on the original Struts Action Framework and half are working on the new Struts Shale Framework, which utilizes JavaServer Faces. Several volunteers are now working with both frameworks.
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+The merger and other milestones on the Apache Struts roadmap are being discussed in a talk at ApacheCon today, entitled "Struts 2006: An Embarrassment of Riches". The talk will be presented by Lightbody, Husted, and Don Brown, another Struts Committer. The Struts Shale framework is being discussed at a second talk, presented by McClanahan, entitled "Shale: The Next Struts??".
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+For more about Struts, visit the Apache Struts Website [http://struts.apache.org/].
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