Re: Struts Productivity Survey

[V. Cekvenich]

In this case, does the consultant/architect:
a. have previous deployed Struts applications,
b. or does the consultant "know of" Struts?

In case a. one should have an idea of how long it takes to train and develop. One opinion for time frame range is newbie developers take about a few days per MVC, and experienced programers do a few MVCs per day (of an average complexity MVC - bean, dao, view, action. JasperReports take about the same. Assuming you have decent requirements, use an iterative process and have a good DBA). Also, 50 developers for 100 screens?

In case of choice b. ... lets see.... nothing comes to mind.

.V





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Ok, so let me pose it a different way.  Put yourself in this position:

You're a consultant or an architect who has been tasked with building a Struts application with 100 screens.  You're actually migrating an application which was originally written as a fat client app in VB and the server was written in C++.

You have about 50 developers who know VB and C++ pretty well.  Some of them know Java/JSP/Servlets very well.  Some of them know it very little.  None of them know Struts.

Your job is to estimate the cost of getting these folks up to speed on Struts.  You already have the application design.  THere's going to be a thin business layer called by the Action classes that will use EJB session beans to provide application functionality.  Fairly simple.  You have to train these people to use Struts, create actions and pages, and write the web-tier business layer.  Somebody else is doing the EJB stuff.

How do you estimate that cost?
How long do you think it will take for these various developers to write their first business function?
How long to do the next one, etc?

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Mack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:34 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Struts Productivity Survey


On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 07:57, Rick Reumann wrote:

easier. I think it's really going be difficult to get an

accurate feel

for how long it takes people to get 'up to speed' with

struts since I

think it's much easier now for new developers to learn

struts simply due

to the books and better documentation available.

I agree 100%. I looked at Struts for the first time in April 2001 mainly
for the forms stuff, really wanting to use it. I've read the UserGuide
and said "What is he talking about!?" Half a year later, with a real
project at hand it went much faster, using the /example stuff. Back
then there were no DynaForms, no Tiles, no Nested, all the stuff that
makes things much easier now. The pages that are now the Taglib API
Reference were the best resources back then.

Greets,
Andreas.

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Andreas Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mediales. GmbH


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