I have a lot of hope for the BSF libraries, but haven't yet had many chances to integrate it into our development cycle. I'm expecting to use it for prototyping, so that we can lock the view down early and then elaborate the business model without having to make many changes to the view and as few as possible to the controller (Struts Actions)
It's very easy to plug struts-bsf in, although you may or may not find it easy to write scripts -- but BSF supports JavaScript, Jython, JRuby, and several other scripting languages.
Joe
At 9:05 AM -0700 4/22/04, Gogineni, Pratima wrote:
I am designing an interface to interact with our proprietary servers. For a clean application you would typically make calls to this interface through struts actions that you would write that are specific to your application & have form beans that are specific to your view.
Now we also have some customers that might for the purposes of quick
development not want to write any struts-actions. Since our servers can be
used in many domains & applications we cannot create form beans that
correspond to the view. What we decided was to design the input/output
objects from our interfaces as "java beans" and allow the use of these beans
directly in the view layer & submit to our interface through a
single-generic action.
This allows the quick (& definitely dirty) development that some customers require. We also plan to have custom tags that help in the creation of our propietary inputbeans and submission to our server so as to parallel our old non-jsp-proprietary tag library that our customers are used to. In someways I guess we are building a framework for our applications on top of struts?
Unfortunately this adds a lot of complexity in the view - because the form bean is not specific to the View and could be bulky. Which is why in need bean population tags etc to make life easier.
I am curious if anyone else has tried to do something similar &/ anyone has any views/inputs for this kind of development.
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