Hello all, I am currently working on a development project for a web system using Struts 1.2.9. It is a fairly large system that has been under development for more than three years now.
During the code-test-and-debug cycle we are forced to restart the server several times, and we have noticed that reading the XML configuration files is what takes most of the time ( struts-config.xml, validation.xml and tiles-defs.xml), approximately 30 secs. These files are pretty stable now, so having to pay the price to parse the XML every time seems unnecessary. I was wondering if there is an approach to configure a Struts application using code instead of XML files. Has anyone bumped into this problem before? Is there a tool to transform a Struts/Tiles/Validator XML file into a Java class that produces the same configuration? I could not find anything in the documentation. Thanks in advance, Tomas
