Re: vel-tools sub project

[Gabriel Sidler <si...@teamup.com>]

Charles Baker wrote:

> What's going on w/ vel-tools? I was browsing CVS and
> everything looks months old. Is it dead? I was really
> interested in the velocity-struts integration.



Charles and all, no, it's not dead. I am using it in my projects and will do a
next project based on Velocity Struts. It has been working really well
for me in past projects so there hasn't been much pressure to make changes.

I am really sorry that this project hasn't been moving much lately. I
know I promised to fix a number of open issues in the past. I am still
commited to that. My challenge is that at the moment I am working on
another high priority project in a different area. The deadline is soon. :-)
My next project will be based on Velocity Struts and in the context of that
project I will need to add support for Struts 1.1. Furthermore, the
documentation will be a main topic. I can't give you dates. It's all
driven by the projects I am working on. But it will happen.

If anyone really needs the Struts 1.1 support now, I believe it
is relatively straightforward to extend the existing implementation
(and of course, contribute it back...).


Gabe



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Re: vel-tools sub project

[Nathan Bubna <na...@esha.com>]

Nathan said:
> ... anyway, i
> can't get at apache's cvs to make a diff right now.   i'm pretty sure that
> all i did was uncomment the commented ActionMessages code in StrutsUtils
and
> add an ActionMessagesTool.  nothing fancy.  here, i'll attach the
> ActionMessagesTool...  hopefully i'll be able to diff my code against
> cvs.apache.org soon to see if there was anything else i changed and forgot
> about.  i'll send the patch along then too.

here's the patch for StrutsUtils to go with the ActionMessagesTool.

this is pretty much all i ended up wanting/needing in switching from Struts
1.0 to 1.1.

Nathan Bubna
nathan@esha.com

Re: vel-tools sub project

[Nathan Bubna <na...@esha.com>]

Geir said:
> On 11/1/02 2:19 AM, "Nathan Bubna" <na...@esha.com> wrote:
>
> > Gabe said:
> >> If anyone really needs the Struts 1.1 support now, I believe it
> >> is relatively straightforward to extend the existing implementation
> >> (and of course, contribute it back...).
> >
> > actually, i'm already using it with Struts 1.1.  the changes to do so
were
> > pretty simple.  i can submit the patches if anyone so desires.
> >
>
> Patch us, baby :)

argh.  i'm having issues with an ignorant/facist network admin.  i'm now on
my school's LAN and they seem to be blocking every useful port, including
2401.  for life of me i can't understand these people!  can you believe i
had to nag them just to get 22 opened for ssh?!!  unbelievable.  anyway, i
can't get at apache's cvs to make a diff right now.   i'm pretty sure that
all i did was uncomment the commented ActionMessages code in StrutsUtils and
add an ActionMessagesTool.  nothing fancy.  here, i'll attach the
ActionMessagesTool...  hopefully i'll be able to diff my code against
cvs.apache.org soon to see if there was anything else i changed and forgot
about.  i'll send the patch along then too.

> Is this backwards compatible?

eh, not so much.  ActionMessages is a new feature for 1.1.

i'm not aware of much in the way of 1.1 changes or features that require any
change in the vel-struts stuff to be used.  so really, i think (don't yell
at me if i'm wrong) you should be perfectly able to use the current
vel-struts integration with 1.1 as it is.  you just might not be able to
take advantage of some features without some work.  (and if you do any such
work, please share! :-)

> Is struts 1.1. Released?

nope.  but it shouldn't be too long.  the word is that there's already a
couple struts books dealing with 1.1 headed to the printers.  that at least
says something about the stability of the current beta releases.  as far as
i can tell, there's no new planned features.  just some clean-up, bug-fixes,
and doc stuff

Nathan Bubna
nathan@esha.com

Re: vel-tools sub project

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@adeptra.com>]

On 11/1/02 2:19 AM, "Nathan Bubna" <na...@esha.com> wrote:

> Gabe said:
>> If anyone really needs the Struts 1.1 support now, I believe it
>> is relatively straightforward to extend the existing implementation
>> (and of course, contribute it back...).
> 
> actually, i'm already using it with Struts 1.1.  the changes to do so were
> pretty simple.  i can submit the patches if anyone so desires.
> 

Patch us, baby :)

Is this backwards compatible?  Is struts 1.1. Released?

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Re: vel-tools sub project

[Nathan Bubna <na...@esha.com>]

Gabe said:
> If anyone really needs the Struts 1.1 support now, I believe it
> is relatively straightforward to extend the existing implementation
> (and of course, contribute it back...).

actually, i'm already using it with Struts 1.1.  the changes to do so were
pretty simple.  i can submit the patches if anyone so desires.

Nathan Bubna
nathan@esha.com


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