On 11/7/07 1:38 PM, "Matt Raible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I'd like is to use Grails to develop my application, but have it > use Struts 2 under-the-covers instead of Spring MVC. As far as code > differences between writing a Spring MVC Grails Controller and a > Struts 2 Grails Controller - I don't think there needs to be any. Hmmm.... This sounds a lot like what I've been working with for the past year sort of. I'm not using Grails, but I have been using Groovy over Struts 2. I really haven't dug into Grails much, only picked over the transactions and proxy stuff deep in the framework at one point, but it seems to me that Grail is fairly closely wedded to Spring MVC under the covers. At least from outward appearances. I think swapping the underlying framework would be a lot of work, and would make the framework into something else, so to speak. I doubt it could be done without creating incompatibilities. Now, if it could be done that would be really cool and I'd probably migrate my current project to it to take advantage of the highly integrated stack of Grails. > The problem I'm looking to solve is one where companies are using two > web frameworks: a dynamic one (Grails) and a static one (Struts 2). Yup. Understood. Take a look at: http://code.google.com/p/groovyworks/ It's young, but it does allow development of pretty much everything in Groovy over Struts 2. It's really not hard. You just need an object factory that can manufacture objects from Groovy scripts. Then use Spring's scripting support for your service beans and DAO's. (The nice thing about this setup is you only need to restart if you change an interface or your domain model.) Now, with Groovy 1.1's support for annotations you can use all the neat stuff that's in S2 and can even do your domain objects in Groovy. Now, with all of that said I'm interested in what you find when you dig into Grails. If looks feasible let me know. I might be able to come up for air from this project I've been on and be able to lend a hand. Mark -- Mark Menard personal: http://www.vitarara.org/ business: http://www.vitarara.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
