Re: Release Work

Lane Sharman wrote:
> WM Faithful,
> 
> I am undertaking Release 2 work. I would like the release to be 2.1.
> 
> Also, eric, please get the webmacro.org site back up and announce this 
> to the group. As soon as this is done, I would like respective authors 
> of their pages to go in and refresh those pages.
> 
> Also, I would strongly urge that a bridge between WM and Spring be 
> completed. This is really important because Spring is a useful container 
> for application execution and it supports different add-on tools. The 
> people who have expressed interest here should do the logical thing: get 
> an IM session running, describe the work, and, just do it.

I have pending commits for this. If we are going to skip 2.0 and go 
straight for 2.1 with "early access" Spring and JSP I will commit this 
stuff tomorrow.

The WM Spring code I have is simply a conversion of the Velocity Spring 
view for WM. There is an outstanding issue in that Velocity supports a 
"spring.vm" macro that is on the classpath in spring.jar and you can 
pull it in from any template as just "spring.vm" I believe. We can't do 
this easily as far as I can see, as we need to modify the WM config from 
within the Spring view code, which means overriding any 
webmacro.properties etc.

...which is why for WM 2.5 or 3 I am committed to overhauling the core 
configuration, Broker and resource handling stuff so that it is 
bean-like, not singletons, and therefore IoC/DI friendly.

Keats and I haven't merged our ideas on the JSP taglib yet. I will get 
to this this week.

Cheers
-- 
Marc Palmer
Managing Director, AnyWare Ltd.



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