The answer is "it depends". I love playing with new stuff, but when my back's against the wall (corporate deadlines, gotta love 'em) I stick with the tried and tested. I'm leading a small project right now that we started in December and we're using Struts. There are a number of reasons for this:
1. It works. 2. We know it. 3. There are plenty of books available. 4. The programmers that will come after us will either know it or be easily able to learn it. (hence concern about book availability) 5. It already has corporate approval. 6. We can use already completed projects as sources (no pun intended) of example code. This is not a slam on any other framework. But, if I have not used them, then I'm not betting my career on them. Struts *will* get the job done. The other frameworks might be bigger, better, faster, more buzzword complient *and* make a cup of tea for me in the morning, but that doesn't mean that Struts doesn't work. I will learn JSF and Shale as time permits, but until then Struts rocks my world! :-) On 2/10/06, Vu, Thai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Could you give me some advices? > > Assume that I know how to use Struts, Hibernate, iBATIS and know nothing > about Spring, JSF (but willing to learn :) ). Now what should I use if I > have to write a new web application? And correct me if I'm wrong > anywhere please. > > I heard that Spring helps us write less code (by declaring beans with > their own names in xml files, whenever we need a bean, just call that > name) and helps us in transactions (I don't know exactly if we use > Spring for transaction management what we can get. Could someone write a > few words here?) > > I heard that JSF is best used for the view tier in the MVC model (I've > just read an article by Craig McClanahan named `The Best of Both Worlds: > Integrating JSF with Struts in Your J2EE Applications on Oracle website, > but it seems to me that that article applies to existing Struts > applications, not new ones). And if I should use JSF, which JSF > implementation should I use? Sun Reference Implementation or MyFaces or > Oracle ADF? I also heard that ADF provides the most components among > those 3 and it's just gone open-source (i.e. we can use it for free). Or > Shale (as far as I know, it is a mixture of Struts and JSF. Am I > right?)? > > Awaiting for your advices. > > Sincerely. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- www.simonpeter.org uab.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
