Hi, Does struts has any facility to show fields having validation error in red color or mark it in some way?
Thanks Ashwani -----Original Message----- From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:44 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Struts vs .NET??? -> Real Stats Actually, this did not help me at all. I understand that differences, etc. I just wondered what you thought, since I thought your conclusions were contrary to the facts. On 7/3/05, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 11:48:37PM -0700, Dakota Jack wrote: > } What is your basis for your assessment of .NET and Struts? What > sort } of problem are you talking about/ > > My assessment is based on my own development experience with both, > plus lurking on this list for a few years. I will reiterate that I am > not interested in converting Java/Struts developers to C#/.NET > developers; I want Java and Struts to be the best they can be, and > that knowing the competition is a step toward that. > > I posted something fairly in-depth about the advantages of > C#-the-language over Java-the-language. Check the archives for the > last couple of days. A few of those advantages have to do with the > .NET runtime itself (in particular, 1) properties being first-class > reflectable objects, just like methods and members, rather than > derived from the JavaBeans get/set naming convention, and 2) events > and delegate (method pointer) types being first-class reflectable objects rather than using interfaces for handlers). > For now, Java has the advantages of generics and anonymous inner > classes over C#, but the next version of C# (due out this year, and > what I'm hearing about the betas leads me to believe that it will > actually be out this year) supports both of those and simplifies a few > other common idioms (iteration, in particular). > > I have not done any comparison of .NET vs. Java performance, nor have > I compared their garbage collection strategies or threading models. > They seem to be pretty similar, and they can be expected to maintain > very similar performance profiles since the optimization techniques > for such things are old in academia and well-published. Their > different choices of performance tradeoffs may eventually effect their > usefulness for particular purposes, at which point it may be > appropriate to choose one or the other based on one's specific application. > > The APIs (system libraries and extension libraries) considered part of > either Java or .NET are pretty similar. Java has a much larger set of > third-party free libraries (in good part thanks to Apache's Jakarta > project), but many of those are being ported to .NET. On the other > hand, there are many commercially-licensed components for .NET, and > there are likely to be more, simply because it is in the Microsoft > world. I don't have exact (or meaningful) figures on this, so take it > with a grain of salt. Anecdotally, I can say that in a previous > project I sought a particular ASP.NET control and found dozens of > candidates, commercial and otherwise, and the one that best suited our > application was commercial. (We bought it, we used it, their tech > support was excellent (including accepting patches from me), and it > did what we needed.) > > Comparing JSP and Struts to ASP.NET turns up sharp corners in both. > It's very easy to encapsulate functionality in a custom tag in > ASP.NET, much harder to do so for JSP. Struts abstracts away the > specifics of the generated HTML (both outgoing HTML and incoming form > data), which supports the MVC model; ASP.NET requires a bit more hoop-jumping to do so. > Validation, both server-side and client-side, is far easier in ASP.NET > than with Struts. ASP.NET has almost no configuration required other > than the .aspx/.ascx (equivalent to .jsp) files themselves, whereas > Struts requires a configuration file that grows increasingly > complicated as the site grows larger (though, to its credit, it does > centralize the transition graph of the site). Neither Struts nor > ASP.NET cares much about business objects, but both can deal with them > just like any other object. Finally, while ASP.NET scales well from a > single page to an entire site, Struts doesn't really shine until you get to at least 5-10 separate forms/pages. > > I hope this is a useful answer to your question. > > --Greg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Capgemini Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. 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