Quoting Steve Raeburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Like most people, I imagine, I still haven't had time to do more than > give JSF a cursory glance. It's clear that there is some overlap between > JSF and Struts. However, that does not mean that one or other will > simply disappear. > > Craig has previously stated that there is still a role for Struts to > play. He has demonstrated by developing a means to integrate the two and > making it available in the Struts distribution. See Struts-Faces in the > Struts contrib directory. > > As the creator of Struts and spec lead for JSF, I think Craig is in a > unique position to understand where all this is going. I take the fact > that he has accepted the role of Chair of the newly formed Apache Struts > PMC as a sign that he believes Struts has a strong future and that he's > willing to help its continuing evolution and growth. >
Yep. > Let me be very clear that I'm not trying to speak for Craig here. I'm > just relaying how *I* view things right now. As I don't yet have any > meaningful personal experience with JSF, I have to gauge things based on > what others are saying and doing. I would rather base *my* actions and > effort on Craig's direction than on the fears of others who also have no > meaningful experience of JSF (or Struts). > > Bottom line is, Struts will evolve to fill any need not met by the > standards. Which is pretty much how the whole thing got started. > My personal vision is that Struts developers will focus their energy on the controller and model tiers, leveraging the existence of standard (and not) technologies in the view tier. The Struts HTML tags have had their three years of fame :-) -- it's time to get on with life and develop innovative solutions where there are still holes in the big picture. But that's up to each of us individually, of course. There is going to be tremendous support for JSF in the industry; fortunately, we can continue to maintain and enhance Struts without having to give that up (thanks to the integration library). Instead, we can embrace it (just like we did with JSTL, and are talking about doing with Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0). > Steve > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
