neal wrote: >Micael, > >You've mentioned Struts a couple of times and I admit I am curious. > >I did look into Struts but to be honost I wasn't all that impressed by what >(I think) I saw. It seemed like it was just offering a lot of lightweight >wrappers around the API. Case in point, the Cookie utility class didn't >appear to offer any additional functionality over the http.cookie class in >the JDK. It's connection pooling was even pretty rudamentary so I went >around that. I presume that its XML/XSL, and other such things would also >be rundamentary probably too. And actually, did I say a lot? I looked at >the API and I didnt think there was a lot there... > >All those things I'm saying wouldn't be bad per se, except that I don't want >to learn a whole new API to do basically what Java already does with it's >own standard API (again back to the wrapper thing). > >Granted the MVC pattern implementation is apparentlly very good but I'm not >seeing that as a huge stumbling block to write on my own. They also appear >to provide custom tags wrappers around their API so that you can keep your >code totally declarative (code based) at the JSP level. Ok, that would be >cool ... but again I just don't want to be realying on a non-standard API >still for standard functionality. I'll end up forgetting the JDK API in >lieu of Struts API. :( > One point to note: The JSTL (you can find the RI under the taglibs project) - aka the Java Standard Tag Library - can be used in lieu of some Struts tags. If you're worried about forgetting standards, use this one. It's *the* standard, and should be what people adopt in their JSP pages (where possible).
(also, Struts doesn't hide the Java API - you work with the same request/response you would otherwise. There are just additional pieces around to make your life easier.) Regards, Eddie > > >SOOOO, this is my initial impression of Struts. I dont know ... what do you >think? Am I totally off base with my concerns and/or assessment of the >package? If so, please let me know. I am open to being proven wrong here. >I've heard Struts is a great package ... its just the cost-benefit (time to >learn vs. gain in productivity) analysis doesn't seem to be pointing me in >that direction right now. :) > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
