Rob Jellinghaus wrote:
> Is there consensus that making Struts more presentation-pluggable, or
> in some other way more amenable to using other presentation
> frameworks, is the direction Struts should go?
From my point of view, Struts is not that much tied into JSP than it
seems. Actually, plugging in another view manager seems pretty
straight-forward.
Let's look at Velocity for example: instead of forwarding to a ".jsp"
from withing actions, forward to a ".vm". Have a servlet mapping that
sends all ".vm" requests to a "VelocityServlet" that prepares the
context and loads the template.
Actually, I've actually seen a .war around (I think it was in one of the
lists) that shows the Struts example application (from 1.0) working with
Velocity templates instead of JSP.
Struts has a lot of funcionality implemented if you want to use JSP (look
at all the tags, for example), but that does not mean it is tied to JSP
and cannot be used with anything else currently. Plugging a new view
engine is quite simple, taking the Velocity example as a starting point.
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