I recommend struts 'coz: Before coming across struts, I used to collect the strengths of a nice architecture, I primarily work with technical architectures and infrastructures modules of various applications for my client.
All that I had learnt in my software life, all that I could have thought of should be present in an ideal infrastructure, was all there already...(certainly except a few...which I still have to explore....about struts...waiting for my copy of book)... Its beyond MVC, its that an ideal infrastructure should have central point of control for crucial things...it does so... The architecture has already thought of first few challenges that come to you in the beginning of an application build, like dynamic parameters on screen, validation framework..., Exception handling and plethora of other features......all because some real genius have been investing their brains into this for years. and tracing...well if you want you can use Log4J ..and if not Log4J..you want to develop anything yourself...all your logging...framework should do is to implement commons logging interface... and MVC...well the tag libraries make sure that VIEW component is free from CONTROLER. Its a perfect de-coupling....! And non the less...its an OPEN SOURCE....... Regards Puneet ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Aaron Farr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:12 AM Subject: RE: Value of Struts? > Personally I think one of the advantages of Struts is that it's a fairly > lightweight framework. What I mean is that, as you pointed out, all it > does is Model 2. It's not a full portal framework like jetspeed and it > doesn't even have a full model framework like Turbine's torque. That's > nothing against these projects (I love and use them both), but sometimes > you don't need all those extras and Struts gives you just enough to get > the job done. > > Sometimes the greatest feature is that fact that the "drudgery" of > writing the framework is done for you. You can simply just get to work > on what makes your application unique. > > jaaron > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gene Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:07 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 > > -- > jaaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > 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]>
