On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 17:47 -0500, Ted Husted wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:53:58 -0800, Nadeem Bitar wrote: > > If for example JSF 2.0 is available, and Spring Framework is well > > integrated with JSF before Struts 2.0 is available, I strongly > > believe that struts won't have a place and would lose market shares. > > First let's be very clear. > > It's *not* about "market share". >
I have to disagree with you on this one. Struts is the defacto standard because of its market share. It is well documented, it has a healthy community, and struts talent is available easily, because of its market share. > Struts does not need market-share to survive. All we need is a community of > developers who use the product and want to help support it. A community of developers would support a product only if they believe in it. Many hard core struts users and developers are migrating to other frameworks and this is a loss for the whole community. Struts 2.0 would have a chance to bridge the gap between struts and other frameworks. Since Struts 2.0 is still on the drawing board I am only advocating to do it right even if that means breaking backward compatibility and making major architecture changes. > How many downloads we realize isn't important. Whether 90% or whether 10% of > shipping applications use Struts isn't important. What's important is that Struts > works well for the people who do want to use it, and that those people want to do > the work to make it better. > > Of course, if we all find that JSF does most of what we all need, and we want to use > it in our own applications, then Struts will quickly become whatever other JSF > components we need to ship our own applications. But so long as products like JSF > leave out components that real-life applications need, there will always be a > Struts. From the beginning, it's always been about providing axles between the > wheels that Java already has. > > -Ted. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
