Re: [Gusdev-gusdev] Struts documentation - objectives

[Adrian R. T. <ar...@sa...>]

Quoting Steve Fischer <sfi...@pc...>:

...
> 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


We had a similar list but I can't recall it at the moment. The only ones I
remember not covered above are:
8. Make it feasible for the curators to maintain their own pages for eg news
9. Be able to integrate third-party services (for some definition of integrate)

Adrian