Rick, i didn't tryed it myself on production (only runing the examples) but with jsf-spring-bridge, you are able to use JSF and its taglib in spring.
here it goes: http://jsf-spring.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:37 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: [OT] A first look at Spring vs Struts > > > Trust me this isn't an attempt to open up a whole flame war. I'm just > curious how many of you have messed with Spring and what your > thoughts > concerning it are. > > I've been looking at it some and I do see some strengths it has, but > some of those strengths I also see as potential weaknesses (maybe). > > In my short study (and I mean very short:) of Spring, here's > what I've > been thinking so far... > > (Note, Spring handles a lot more than the just the front end > framework, > but since Struts is mostly a front end framework these comments about > Spring are in relation to the web component portion of Spring). > > Flexibility. Here is where I think Spring's major strength > lies. You are > given some out-of-the-box controllers and stuff but how the > application > is put together with the framework allows for a lot of > flexibility. In a > large corporation, though, this all could be a weakness if one isn't > careful. It seems very easy to have part of an application > being coded > using entirely different Spring concepts than another part. > Struts has > this problem as well, although it appears more difficult to > abuse since, > unless you start really doing funky things in Action execute methods > (seen it done), it's pretty easy to stay within 'best > practices' guidelines. > > Learning curve. I can't really tell which is an easier > framework to pick > up and learn. I've been working with Struts for a long time > now, so it's > difficult for me to look at this objectively. The fact that > there are a > lot more ways of developing web applications with Spring can > be somewhat > of an obstacle for picking it up quickly. > > View tags. I happen to like the basic struts html tags > related to forms. > Spring doesn't come with much of a tag library that I can > tell. I'm not > sure how tags such as the Nested tag will play with Spring. Currently > you have to provide all form field values with JSTL... not a big deal > except a bit unwieldy for nested beans (imo). > > Lack of ActionForms. Spring doesn't use ActionForms and I > like this. You > can tie a Value Object right to your front end form. Very nice. If > Struts got away from ActionForms I'd be very happy (although I'd lose > some of the nice html tags functionality). > > Spring also uses a lot of cool stuff like IoC (Inversion of > Control/Dependency Injection). > > Right now, as it stands, I'm finding it difficult to justify > switching > over to 'yet another framework' (Sheesh how many are there > now - Spring, > WebWorks..:). I've run into some limitations using Struts > (such as its > nice handling of a 'form wizard flow' where you might need to action > chain - gets a bit ugly) but overall I don't really have many > complaints > about Struts. It appears that I'm not going to gain that much > switching > over to Spring. A lot of my good buddies in #FunkyCodeMonkey on > darkmyst.org are former Struts users and they seem to like > Spring better > - although, they haven't given me enough compelling reasons > to jump ship. > > I've only begun to start looking into Spring so I'm sure I'm > missing a > TON of points that could be made. I'd appreciate any other > comments good > or bad concerning either framework. I'm sure many of you fall > into the > same frustration-boat that I feel like I'm in- "So many > technologies out > there - only so much time." I've trying to determine if I > really need to > be investing the time to explore this framework more when I could be > exploring other things I need to learn more about. I'm sure > many of you > can relate:) > > Thanks, > > -- > Rick > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
