On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, neal wrote:
In the short term, it may take longer. It really depends on how easily you can learn, which nobody here can really gauge. The best way to determine that would be to read through the User's Guide on the Struts website, take a peek at the Javadocs, and run through a tutorial (which you can find some in the Resources section on the Struts website). The most valuable feature in my opinion would be the growing user base. Resources to learn the framework pop up everyday. There is also the consideration of other developers having to work on the code in the future. The chances that you can find another developer that knows Struts is increasing. And having a developer who already knows the framework would save time over a developer having to learn a framework. Case in point: I work in the US in the energy industry which has been seeing a lot of layoffs, my company not excluded. Our layoffs took our development base of about 35 people (which were spread out in small teams of about 5 or 6 throught the company) to 6 people. The 6 of us that survived have had to take on more applications. One of the apps that I took over was in the middle of development. The business came to me and said they were in the middle of doing some testing but they can't get to the app anymore. They wanted to show the eventual end users parts of it in a couple of days, so they wanted it to be up and running. Well, to shorten the story, the code that was checked into source control was out of date, the build file wouldn't run, and the war would not deploy. The only documentation that I had was on the business requirements. The only thing that enabled me to get that app up and running in time (and still be able to go home and sleep) was that the developer chose to use Struts, which I was using on another project and thus was familiar with. I'm also not having any problems picking up the development of the app even with the lack of documentation. The decision to use Struts by the previous developer was quite a time saver for me. --> stu: www.stuology.net It just no longer is plain simple safe fun when it's the psycho chimp that has the ray gun ------------------------------------------------ Stuology -- A million monkeys can't be wrong > Yeah, I know what I am saying would be like reinventing the wheel, and thus > the point of using a framework (to not reinvent the wheel). However, my > main concern is that learning to use this 'wheel' might take longer than > building one myself. > > I'm sure the guys who wrote Struts are masters of the field and I have heard > great things about Struts. I guess I am simply posting the question to try > to get more information about it. On the surface it just sounds like one > more thing to learn, and I'm just trying to gauge the value. > > What about Struts do you find to be the most valuable features? > > Thanks! :) > > Neal > > > > -- > 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]>
