Re: Struts 1 - what does the future hold?

2012-11-15 Thread Martin Cooper
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Brian Holzer wrote: > Hi all, > In 2010 we finished a 6 year project of redeveloping our complete > application from COBOL and a bit of Java to a totally Java application > using Struts 1. We have tens of thousands of classes and millions of lines > of code.

Re: Struts 1 - what does the future hold?

2012-11-15 Thread Dave Newton
I'm not sure how it would fall *out* of compliance given Java's backwards compatibilitiness, although I could see lower-level stuff like maybe startup config etc. being marginally broken on occasion. All this said, S1 is only a tiny layer of most applications; re-fronting the app should be signifi

Re: Struts 1 - what does the future hold?

2012-11-15 Thread Brian Holzer
Hi Paul, I agree with you that any new development we do, we should be doing with Struts 2 ( I hope to convince them of that ) but my question is more about Struts 1 and it's maintenance going forward. With our application being as large as it is, I am just looking for some confirmation fro

Re: Struts 1 - what does the future hold?

2012-11-15 Thread Paul Benedict
Go with Struts 2. End of story :-) I did make some really big enhancements to 1.4 but Struts 2 is well and above any new enhancements for 1.x Paul On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Brian Holzer wrote: > Hi all, > In 2010 we finished a 6 year project of redeveloping our complete > applicati

Struts 1 - what does the future hold?

2012-11-15 Thread Brian Holzer
Hi all, In 2010 we finished a 6 year project of redeveloping our complete application from COBOL and a bit of Java to a totally Java application using Struts 1. We have tens of thousands of classes and millions of lines of code. A new kind of "one off/stand alone" application has been requ