Re: [Gusdev-gusdev] Struts documentation

[Steve F. <sfi...@pc...>]

Folks-

thanks alot for making the demo and sending along the doc.

can you send us a link to the demo pages?

on the assumption that Struts will be a good framework for us, i would 
like to step back and ask us to state what our objectives are.  on our 
side, we are thinking that this will become the next version of the GUS 
Website Development Kit. 
If that is so, then here are some possible objectives that come to mind:
 1. work within the GUS build system
 2. creation of a default website (bravo on your effort here)
 3. all the session stuff we might need
 4. use of JSP to separate layout from content
 5. some kind of abstraction of query pages that allows us to separate 
the sql from layout considerations (and also the sql used to populate 
and or construct pulldowns
 6. some kind of abstraction to specify queries that are used to 
generate result pages
 7. support for the boolean and history modes

I don't know how familiar you guys are with our current WDK (it is not 
in the sanger cvs).  In addition to handling all the session stuff, its 
most important feature is a big fat config file )per site) which goes a 
long way to using a declarative approach to specifying the details of 
the site and its queries.  I have attached one of these files, 
dotsgenes-config.in.  This file specifies the Allgenes.org site.  You 
will find that it contains about 100 queries, which is how many are used 
on the site (excluding those that are hard coded into java code for 
various snazzy graphics).  In many cases, the entries in this file 
completely specify a query or result page by declaring parameters to the 
underlying dev kit classes.  

steve


Marie-Adele Rajandream wrote:

>Hi,
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>I've attached the discussion document on a Struts/JSP framework (finally).
>There's a quick guide to it's contents at the beginning. We'd appreciate any
>comments on this, via the list, and in particular the work plan in the
>conclusion section.
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>Thanks,
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>Adrian
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