Re: Article

2008-03-14 Thread Jim Cushing
Absolute. After I posted by comment, I realized it sounded rather harsh to the Struts 1 team, which had their reasons for making the decision they did*. Thus, my follow up. However, by the time Spring MVC came into being, there was no longer a valid reason for making controllers singletons,

Re: Article

2008-03-13 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Jim Cushing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.S. By "rather poor designs features" of Struts 1, I refer primarily > to choice of making Actions singletons, which required a separate > ActionForm bean. As I've read the history of Struts 1, WebWork, and > Struts 2, mu

Re: Article

2008-03-13 Thread Jim Cushing
P.S. By "rather poor designs features" of Struts 1, I refer primarily to choice of making Actions singletons, which required a separate ActionForm bean. As I've read the history of Struts 1, WebWork, and Struts 2, much of it written by the members of this list, I see that they've acknowledg

Re: Article

2008-03-13 Thread Jim Cushing
I'm but a humble Struts 2 user (and a Spring MVC critic), so forgive me for lurking on this list (it's a great way for me to follow the progress). I posted two comments to that blog (search for "jimothy") that I think sum up Spring MVC vs. Struts 2 from a mindshare perspective. I'd be inter

Re: Article

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Newton
--- Wes Wannemacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/12/08, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Struts 2 is very different from Struts 1. Conceptually it's very > > similar to Spring MVC (Simple Java Beans based with configuration); > > Slightly easier to learn and maybe slightly les

Re: Article

2008-03-12 Thread Wes Wannemacher
On 3/12/08, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Struts 2 is very different from Struts 1. Conceptually it's very > similar to Spring MVC (Simple Java Beans based with configuration); > Slightly easier to learn and maybe slightly less powerful than Spring" > > uh? I couldn't disagree mo

Re: Article

2008-03-12 Thread Musachy Barroso
"Struts 2 is very different from Struts 1. Conceptually it's very similar to Spring MVC (Simple Java Beans based with configuration); Slightly easier to learn and maybe slightly less powerful than Spring" uh? I couldn't disagree more about those 2 "slightly". musachy On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:4