Project Information

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If you have tried Strecks out, your feedback would be particularly appreciated. Please use the mailing lists to make your comments, or contact Phil Zoio.

Road Map

The underlying purpose of the Strecks is to make the use of Struts (the original 1.x version, and not the WebWork-based version 2.x) more palatable, user-friendly and productive to develop applications with. Version 1.0 largely achieves this goal. However, there is scope for further development, and improvements will be made in the future according to the wishes of users and the developers.

Version 1.1

A number of the features earmarked or under consideration for version 1.1 are:

a method for grouping session-based action forms and other session attributes within a single "conversational state"
allow for configuration of Strecks via Struts plug-in via Struts plug-in as an alternative to the strecks.properties file
add dependency injectors for J2EE-specific objects, such as the JNDI context, EJBs Session Beans , etc.
allow support finalization callback interceptor which allows, for example, to automatically call remove() on injected EJB Stateless Session Beans
implementation of validators with runtime context. For example, date validators whose pattern could depend on the current locale
integration of validation within the action controller's workflow, allowing support for annotated validation methods
additional built-in converters and data binding mechanisms
AJAX support, for example, through action controllers implementing action-specific AJAX workflow
Integration with Spring web flow

About Strecks

Strecks has been developed by Phil Zoio of Realsolve Solutions.