WebWork 2.1 was released about a month ago with very little press. With the release of 2.1.1, the 2.1.x product line is stable and solid. We encourage those using older versions (1.x and 2.0) to try out 2.1.1.
The full list of bug fixes and new features can be found in the release notes.
Now that the 2.x line is mature and stable, we are going to look forward towards new features and problems to solve. The 2.x line has found a strong install base and user community, and we'd like to look towards those users to understand what they wish they could see in future versions. Some ideas that have been thrown out include:
* Tool support (plugins for building standard CRUD UIs in Eclipse and IDEA)
* More client-side interactive support (taking advantage of the XML/HTTP support in IE and Mozilla)
* Better integration efforts with other popular frameworks, such as Hibernate and Spring
Please feel free to add your suggestions to the list. Alternatively, if you want to discuss any ideas thrown out here, please do so.
Links
WebWork: http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork
Release notes and changes
Documentation
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OpenSymphony releases WebWork 2.1.1 (9 messages)
- Posted by: Patrick Lightbody
- Posted on: August 30 2004 13:37 EDT
Threaded Messages (9)
- Docs are scarce by Horia Muntean on August 31 2004 11:37 EDT
- Docs are scarce by Patrick Lightbody on August 31 2004 11:42 EDT
- Docs are scarce by Horia Muntean on August 31 2004 12:02 EDT
- Docs are scarce by Gabriel Chua on August 31 2004 21:35 EDT
- Docs are scarce by Patrick Lightbody on August 31 2004 11:42 EDT
- Pure Suport for JSP/JSTL by Taras Zhugayevich on September 01 2004 11:13 EDT
- Pure Suport for JSP/JSTL by Dennis Dai on September 01 2004 13:39 EDT
- Pure Suport for JSP/JSTL by Taras Zhugayevich on September 02 2004 12:42 EDT
- Pure Suport for JSP/JSTL by Dennis Dai on September 01 2004 13:39 EDT
- WebWork rocks! by Harald Nekvasil on September 06 2004 06:22 EDT
- OpenSymphony releases WebWork 2.1.1 by Will Heslop on September 14 2004 10:34 EDT
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Docs are scarce[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Horia Muntean
- Posted on: August 31 2004 11:37 EDT
- in response to Patrick Lightbody
Maybe it's a great framework, but the docs are scarce. I was fighting to find out how to access the servlet init params for hours.
The most basic example of how to componetize a DataSource defined in tomcat is missing. No lifecycle details, tags have basic description, no detailes ...
I am trying to learn webwork, but without my struts background (basic) I would be lost. Funny! I am strugling not to drop this exercise.
What a pitty.
Regards,
Horia -
Docs are scarce[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Patrick Lightbody
- Posted on: August 31 2004 11:42 EDT
- in response to Horia Muntean
Horia,
While the docs have improved quite a bit over the last two releases, I'm sure there is still tons of work to do. Please feel free to get active on the mailing list and more often than not the topics covered there eventually find there way in to the documentation.
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Docs are scarce[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Horia Muntean
- Posted on: August 31 2004 12:02 EDT
- in response to Patrick Lightbody
Patrick,
I agree that digging in mail-lists or other resources will pop more usefull information. I just wanted to say that in order to adopt WW fast, the docs should be more verbose. WW is a proprietary framework, is not an impelmentation of some standard so the docs and concepts could be backed by the specs themself.
Regards,
Horia -
Docs are scarce[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Gabriel Chua
- Posted on: August 31 2004 21:35 EDT
- in response to Horia Muntean
Maybe SourceBeat can give WebWork some Live. -
Pure Suport for JSP/JSTL[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Taras Zhugayevich
- Posted on: September 01 2004 11:13 EDT
- in response to Patrick Lightbody
Greetings,
I am new to X/WebWork and while learning it I found its limited support for JSP. Maybe it just me or maybe WebWork's poor documentation. I am not trying to criticize software. There are many cool features in WebWork (for example: file upload interceptors, validation interceptors, transaction token generation, etc.), but there are also features that are still missing. Here are my thoughts:
It is hard to get WebWork's stack values from JSP. There are some UI JSP tags that let you access values from WebWork's stack but their implementation lucks "friendliness", for example: why does text field tag outputs label? Somebody may say "...then use property tag..." unfortunately, that is only one acceptable option that I could find. But still, I would expect more support for JSP and JSTL. I want to be able to use JSTL to access WebWork properties without digging deep into request attributes. Is there special interceptor or result type that makes WebWork's stack values easier to access from JSP?
Thanks in advance,
Taras -
Pure Suport for JSP/JSTL[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Dennis Dai
- Posted on: September 01 2004 13:39 EDT
- in response to Taras Zhugayevich
Taras,... for example: why does text field tag outputs label? Somebody may say "...then use property tag..." unfortunately, that is only one acceptable option that I could find.
The answer is in the documentation:
http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork/wikidocs/Themes.html
By default, the UI tags are using xhtml theme, which has those table tag decoration as well as the label. If you don't want that, you can add theme="'simple'" to your tag. Better yet, you can create your own theme and customize it to suit your specific needs.But still, I would expect more support for JSP and JSTL. I want to be able to use JSTL to access WebWork properties without digging deep into request attributes. Is there special interceptor or result type that makes WebWork's stack values easier to access from JSP?
There was an answer in the documentation too but it's not easy to find now, so I just post the link here:
http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/WW/Using+WebWork2+and+XWork1+with+JSP+2.0+and+JSTL+1.1
Basically, webwork is using OGNL for the properties. If you want to use JSTL, you'll need to use an interceptor (provided in the above link) to expose those properties to request attributes.
Like Patrick said above, you'll get more help if you can join the mailling list. There're a lot of helpful people there.
HTH,
Dennis -
Pure Suport for JSP/JSTL[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Taras Zhugayevich
- Posted on: September 02 2004 12:42 EDT
- in response to Dennis Dai
Thank you very much, Dennis! -
WebWork rocks![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Harald Nekvasil
- Posted on: September 06 2004 06:22 EDT
- in response to Patrick Lightbody
I've used WebWork 2.x version on my last project and really liked it. On a previous project, I used Struts which is also quite good. Looking forward to try out the new version!
Harald -
OpenSymphony releases WebWork 2.1.1[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Will Heslop
- Posted on: September 14 2004 10:34 EDT
- in response to Patrick Lightbody
There are just
too
many
frameworks