Re: [Webwork-devel] DRAFT 3 - next release features/requirements

[Rickard <ri...@dr...>]

Matt Baldree wrote:

> 3rd draft of possible next release feature/requirements based on what people
> have posted. Right now these are candidate ideas. Once we have a good list,
> we can repost for inclusion/exclusion/prioritization, etc.
> 
> Other ideas?


Somewhere down the line we should investigate supporting JavaServerFaces 
(looks trivial) and the new standard tag library. I've also been 
thinking about maybe refactoring the dispatcher so that it separates the 
HTTP-specific parts from the purely WW-specific parts, in order to more 
easily have more dispatchers.

Also, people have been complaining that it's not possible to have 
multiple servlet dispatchers in a web app. I'm not quite sure why one 
would want that, but there ya go. Maybe someone can enlighten me.

Some have also complained that the action description is "monolithic", 
i.e. it's not possible to describe actions in multiple files. AFAICT 
this is not entirely true since one can put partial configs in 
XML-snippets and use entities in a actions.xml to reference them. 
Haven't tried it though.

Moving more towards an XML-based configuration scheme may be a good 
idea. Not sure though, since XML would make it much much more verbose.

/Rickard

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Rickard Öberg