PSquad's CornerJava, School, Technology, and "other" stuffWebWork 2.0 Coming Along- January 23, 2003 So everyone has decided on the WebWork 2.0 Mission Statement and the XWork 1.0 Mission Statement (thanks to Jason Carreira for wording these statements so nicely). This means that development on both platforms will now begin to roll ahead. In fact, just tonight I did a few things for WebWork: Added simple PropertyTag and PushTag implementations Added a FilterDispatcher that allows you to access a view of the action and have the action itself execute. This means that...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/23.html#a81 WebWork 2.0 and SiteMesh- January 16, 2003 Now that I'm toying with the idea of WebWork 2.0 and XWork, I'd like to mention that I've been thinking about using SiteMesh to replace the IncludeTag stuff in WebWork 1.x. They have a very strong overlap, but SiteMesh is a bit more powerful and it'd be great to make use of SiteMesh in an area other than what it's famous for (the PageFilter). Don't have time for an example of the overlap, but maybe later I'll put one up if someone asks.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/15.html#a80 What about XWork AND WebWork- January 16, 2003 I got an idea today (it was entirely my idea, no one else suggested it first -- hehe, J.O.): What if XWork and WebWork were both developed actively and released as seperate projects XWork would be the "kernel" for WebWork and would focus entirely on non-web-related stuff. Essentially, it would be be nothing more than a generic command pattern framework as well as a nice lifecycleIoC system (thanks again, JoeW) similar to Avalon. But the point is that it'd be small. In fact, I built this in...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/15.html#a79 Ant console- January 16, 2003 Anyone know why there hasn't been a nice ant task that essentially gives the user a little text input field where they can type in task names and have them executed This would be just like the maven console, but of course for ant. Would make building apps even quicker, since we could keep the ant process running and just press "up-arrow enter" to rebuild. Of course, this is for when you aren't using it with IDEA... you ARE doing that, righthttp://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/15.html#a78 My sad blog posts- January 15, 2003 For anyone that reads my posts and thinks, "gee, that guy sure sucks at spelling", or "gee, that guy can't keep his train of thought", or "gee, that guy is an idiot", I have an answer for at least the first two thoughts (the last one I can't help you with, sorry). When I write my blog posts, I'm usually sitting in a lecture hall, crammed in with 500 other students, hopelessly trying to pay attention to the lecture while still blabbing away about some useless topic. So I hope that clears it all..http://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/14.html#a77 Setting it straight: What is XWork- January 14, 2003 So I saw today that there was a blog entry discussing XWork and that it might be less powerful for the web... or less powerful as a command framework. And I'm not saying David is the one who things this, he's meerly interpreting the nonsense that is going on the WebWork mailing list. About a month ago I emailed the OpenSymphony mailing lists stating that I would no longer participate in the flamefests that so often appear on the list. Of course, I still continue to developer for a ton of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/14.html#a76 OSUser - Overhaul- January 9, 2003 So work has finally begun on the real OSUser overhaul -- it's going to rule! David Smiley and Phillip Mudd have started some serious work. You can find it in the CVS module "sandbox" in the subdirection OSUser. I'm VERY excited about this!http://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/08.html#a75 Commons Digester- January 7, 2003 Just saw what Digester is all about... damn it's cool. I'll make sure that all my OpenSymphony configs switch to using it (unless it has like a million dependencies).http://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/06.html#a74 Calling all Orion users- January 7, 2003 Anyone actually ever get Orion to auto-compile sources Can it see when sources change, then compile and redeployhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/06.html#a73 OSWorkflow query support- January 4, 2003 OSWorkflow 2.5 is coming right along. The biggest thing that will be in this release will be query support. I've already got it implemented in the MemoryWorkflowStore and it is demonstrated in the example web app (which btw, will also be beefed up in the next release). I'm not entirely sure how dynamic queries can be implemented in EJB -- this is a tough problem. JDBC and Ofbiz won't be very hard at all, however. This brings me to another idea: what about using Lucene for workflow queries Is...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108886/2003/01/04.html#a72 |