-none- 2007-08-14 - By Adam Hardy
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The Spring integration isn't something I'd looked into deeply. I just assumed
I'd be repeating my list of actions, knowing only what I have read about so far
.
This isn't the first time struts2 has proved my assumptions wrong - and always
in a good way I'm glad to report.
Laurie Harper on 14/08/07 17:03, wrote:
> Adam Hardy wrote:
[snipped]
>> It seems like struts2 says:
>>
>> 1: here's struts.xml where you configure your actions
>> 2: here's an autowiring interceptor and it uses Spring to grab
>> dependencies for your actions
>> 3: by the way, if you want to list all your actions in Spring as well
>> as in struts.xml, it's kind of cool.
>>
>> Of course at point 3 I immediately think, why would I want to do that
>> again? Can't I save myself the effort of doing it twice? I guess I'm
>> expecting an attribute on the action node that would define an object
>> factory reference where the action bean would be found, instead of a
>> class.
>
> Isn't that what you get when you use the Spring plugin? Instead of your
> action mappings specifying fully qualified class names, they specify a
> logical name which is defined by your Spring configuration. With that
> done you have all the advantages of Spring, such as dependency
> injection, the ability to substitute alternative implementations of your
> actions (or their dependencies) by swapping out configurations, etc.
>
> Again, the Spring plugin is entirely optional. If you don't want or need
> any of the facilities Spring provides to help manage instances of your
> actions, you don't need to use the Spring plugin. If you *do* want to
> take advantage of any of Spring's features at this layer, the plugin
> makes that facility available to you.
>
> L.
>
>> Laurie Harper on 13/08/07 22:11, wrote:
>>> Um, to allow all the capabilities of Spring (dependency injection,
>>> AOP or whatever) to be applied to action instances?
>>>
>>> L.
>>>
>>> Adam Hardy wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the explanation. What would you say the main rationale is
>>>> then for using Spring as a factory for the actions instead of the
>>>> struts objectfactory?
>>>>
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