My app is mostly data entry and struts works very nice. It nicely separates
the presentation and business logic. Its session and forms management
powerful, yet not complicated to understand.
I had develop framework similar to struts using WebMacro instead of JSP.
The html files are cleanner, but it is additional package you need to
install. I would not recommend developing your own framework.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Vandenberk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: General Struts & J2EE question
Hi,
I work in a company where 90% of all applications being developed are mostly
data-entry kinda applications (so a lot of data input, validations on that
data ... and readonly views of that data)
A lot of our clients 'heard' of J2EE and they insist on using J2EE for their
new applications, which isn't a bad thing, although it is quite costly for
applications only used by a 100 users.
This aside, I have a couple of questions:
* what is at this moment the best practice (presentation) to develop data
entry
applications using J2EE, is struts appropriate, or would you suggest
applets, ... ? or a mix, lets say applets for data entry and struts
based JSP for read only views ?
* does anyone have hands-on experience with data entry kinda applications
built on struts ?
* metrics available ? time to develop ? compared to applets ?
* pitfalls ? tips ?
thanks,
Kris
