On 7/11/05, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just remember ... the lifetime of Struts 1.x (five years since initial > conception, four years since 1.0) is basically a geologic era in terms > of Internet time :-).
Ahh, but time is an illusion, and Internet time doubly so :) It seems to me that a lot of us are still solving the same problems we had five years ago with the same applications we wrote five years ago. Struts promised us applications that would be easier to maintain than rewrite, and, boy, has it delivered. Of course, over the last five years, we've managed to make Struts applications even easier to write and maintain, with features like declarative validation and exception handling, Tiles, JAAS support, modules, multiple configurations, Wildcard mappings, BSF Scripting, Workflow, DynaActionForms, LazyDynaActionForms, and even instant DynaActionForms (FormDef) -- to name a few :) We still don't have "UI components", but Struts works fine with coolness gizmos like DisplayTags and Layout. Of course, Struts plays nice with other great tools, like SecurityFilter and SiteMesh. And while Struts is harder to test than we would like, libraries like Struts TestCase and Web Canoo lighten the load. Most recently, just as Microsoft starting to think about Ajax support, * http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/06/28/416185.aspx members of the Struts community are delivering Ajax support. * http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/ It is disappointing that Struts 1.3.x has stalled again -- since there is some real innovation under that hood. But at least we are within spitting distance. Eventually, I'm sure someone will be able to spare a few days to push it out the door. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
