You say you don't see a big advantage except for MVC, form validation, bean mapping, reduced scriptlet code. Well, they're pretty good things to get for FREE doncha think? >From my perspective you can add to it applicationresources.properties, which allows for i18n (for free) and standardisation of phraseology across the presentation layer (for free). Tiles is pretty sharp too, promoting reuse in the presentation layer, especially since it's free!
: ) -----Original Message----- From: Gene Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 23 January 2003 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Value of Struts? I've been using Struts (1.0) for a few months now, and I'm not seeing a big advantage to using it other than that it does Model 2 (which is very very wise) and hides some of the heavy lifting. ActionForms get you server side form validation and HTTP parameters->bean mapping. The taglibs get you reduced scriplet code and hooks to the form bean. Actions get you a clean place to write controller code and a way to easily forward to presentation jsps. Is that all Struts does? Or are there features I'm missing? Is it just a framework abstracting away the easy stuff into easier stuff? I'm not trying to start a war - I'm sorry if I'm coming of antagonistic. I'm not intending any ill will. I'm just having a hard time figuring out why Struts is so popular. thanks - gene __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
