On 10/10/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some people seem to believe that Struts is obsolete, or is rapidly > becoming so, is showing it's age, etc. I believe this is only the case, > if in fact it is, because it has been allowed to stagnate a bit in terms > of truly evolving. It has been on autopilot for way too long and other > frameworks have had a chance to pass it by.
It's not so much that we are on autopilot. It's that the project velocity is glacial, and it has always been glacial. Struts 1.3 will be our fourth release series. We've consistently averaged twenty months between series, and it looks like 1.3 will be no exception. Of course, some projects release more often. One reason for that is that many other frameworks and projects have support from corporate developers. Spring, Subversion, Geronimo, Tomcat, JBoss, to name a few, all get a boost from volunteers who work on the project as part of their regular jobs. The Struts Validator was developed as an extension for a public website, and then donated to Apache, but that's about as close as we've ever come to corporate support. In regard to another Apache project, recently I was talking with the "Open Source Evangelist" for a (very) large corporation about a code they would like to donate and how to integrate volunteer corporate developers into an Apache project. When we had concluded our other business, I mentioned that Struts could always use some help too. He seemed positively startled by the idea, even though this corporation uses Struts as the foundation for their web application toolset. So, we trudge. Hoo-hah. Of course, we've also always depended on external extensions to fill in the gaps. I think most of us consider projects like Struts Console, Struts Layout (and/or DisplayTag), SSL Ext, Struts Menu, and Struts TestCase, all to be part of the quintessential.Struts stack, not to mention some of the newcomers, like Java Web Parts, Struts Dialog, and FormDef. * http://www.jamesholmes.com/struts/console/ * http://struts.application-servers.com/ * http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/ * http://sslext.sourceforge.net/ * http://struts-menu.sourceforge.net/ * http://strutstestcase.sourceforge.net/ * http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/ * http://struts.sourceforge.net/strutsdialogs/index.html * https://formdef.dev.java.net/ -- Ted. http://www.husted.com/poe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
