RE: Why Struts - Ryan Norman

2002-03-28 Thread Jon.Ridgway
Hi Ryan, Most of the frameworks available are very similar to Struts. The only difference is that they tie you into the specific app server in most cases. Also as they are only used by a subset of developers that use the specific app server their user base and hence experience base will be much

RE: Why Struts - Ryan Norman

2002-03-27 Thread David . A . Ventimiglia
. For starters, Struts is vendor-neutral. What happens if you decide to migrate an app developed with WebSphere's framework to JBoss? . I am using Struts with Weblogic. I don't believe I'm in the vanguard with this. Cheers, David Ventimiglia -Original Message- From: Ryan Norman

RE: Why Struts - Ryan Norman

2002-03-27 Thread Joseph Barefoot
Hi Ryan, Yes, there are other, propietary frameworks to be used, as well as rules processing engines, in many of the commercial web servers. So, why use Struts? Some of these commercial web servers have very powerful features, but you pay the price of tying oneself to the web server. Not just

RE: Why Struts - Ryan Norman

2002-03-27 Thread Mike Finn
Ryan, 1) There may be MVC frameworks available as value-adds to WebSphere, WebLogic, etc. They may not port from one app server to another. Struts should run in any JSP/Servlet spec-compliant web container. With proprietary frameworks, you risk getting precisely what many hope to avoid by

Re: Why Struts - Ryan Norman

2002-03-27 Thread Jim.W.Berg
Ryan, Struts is app server neutral. I am currently working on a project using struts and WebLogic. We have saved a tremendous amount of time by implementing struts as our framework. You should not be looking at this as struts and Tomcat versus Web Sphere and ? You should look at this as