Bill: You shouldn't lose a thing by using Struts/Expresso in combination, as we've incorporated the entire Struts framework into Expresso. On the flip side, you would gain a powerful object/relational mapping layer, background job queuing/scheduling, auto-generated UI's for prototyping, XML UI generation (w/optional XSLT) and a bunch of other good stuff.
We've extended the configuration to support a seperate struts-config.xml for each application, and automatically merge them at startup, but basically everything you are doing now in Struts you can do in Expresso, plus what Expresso adds. Of course, I'm a bit biased, I'm lead developer on Expresso. :-) We're currently at release 1.0 of Struts, but upgrades are indeed in the works. Have a look at the doc on the site as well, and don't miss the Expresso Developer's Guide - a lot of good material is in there, but people don't seem to find it sometimes. 200+ pages of doc in total. Regards, Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Advice needed on Stuts versus Struts/Expresso > > > > Hi all, > > I've gotten a full app to work with Struts and have a good understanding > of how things are supposed to be done and work. > > Now I am looking at possibly using Expresso to speed development. > > In anyone's experience what would I lose by moving to Expresso. I can > see how it would speed development, but do I lose anything that struts > gives me? Is there anything that I would come across that I could not > do with Expresso that I could do with Struts? > > I've read all the JCorporate docs on the struts integration and such, > but would like to draw on the experience of those more, well > experienced. > > I guess I am at the point where I understand Struts so I am hesitant to > move on to something else if I will just be coming back to struts later. > > My needs rotate mostly around rapid development of applications. > > Thanks much for this information and all the previous help in getting me > going with struts. > > PS. For anyone starting with struts, get Ted Husted's struts-catalog and > read it once a day while you are learning struts. In the beginning you > may not understand it, but as the days go on, more and more will help > you out. (Thanks Ted) > > > Bill Chmura > Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc. > Information Technologies Department > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
