RE: [OS-webwork] Woohoo!

[Jason Carreira]

Title: Message

Well, it really came down to usability issues. We looked at things like having to have separate FormBeans tied to the Actions 1-1 (because you have to cast to the expected FormBean subclass). Also, we looked at some sample code for Struts and Webwork (we looked at code for Chiki, a Wiki implemented with Struts, and Jira. Thanks Mike for having clean code!). It was very apparent that you had to do a lot of busy work to initialize things and do the setup that the framework should have done for you in Struts, whereas in Webwork, it was pretty much all business code. Command driven actions were also a big hit, as our lead architect came from a Next background, and apparently they did code like that all the time. In general, I think it was just a general feeling that Webwork was better abstracted and architected than Struts.

 

Other advantages, like the ValueStack and the expression language, were less easy to express, since they hadn't begun to use them yet. 

 

Some of the concerns were (in no order):

 

-Less userbase - I pointed out that with a smaller project we have a better chance of making changes and making WW do what we need

-JSTL and JSF support

-tool support

-----Original Message-----
From: Volkmann, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:52 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Woohoo!

Can you share with us the justification you used for using WebWork instead of Struts?  Others may find it useful.  Perhaps you've already done that and I accidently deleted the email.  If so, could you resend it to me?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Carreira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:13 PM
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> Subject: [OS-webwork] Woohoo!
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>
> So we had our Webwork vs. Struts talk today, and I was able
> to convince
> people here that there was sufficiently enough better about WW to make
> us use it instead of Struts, even though Struts is the "standard", of
> sorts! Cool.
>
> Off to catch a plane home...
>
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