Well, Spring is a broader tools than Struts. Spring MVC is more like a direct counterpart of Struts, as a web framework. There are other parts in Spring you might find useful. For example, Spring JDBC template, AOP transaction control, or IoC container to manager business logic. In my case, I also use their scheduler improvement to wire beans. It is a more elegant solution to me compaing to write into the hard code. ( http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/scheduling.html#scheduling-jdk-timer) As I mentioned in previous email, I am using struts 1.2 to manage the web request handling, while using spring more as a middle tier tools within the business logic and actions. As the other guy points out, Spring is kind of like the full set of Apache Commons, you can use them in all, or just use whatever you find useful. And good thing for Spring is that it can be used in either way, full framework or just a part. Here is the way I am using. http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/web-integration.html#web-integration-common
Also, in Spring's package, one of the pet-store examples is Struts 1.2+Spring. You can refer it as well. Sincerely Zhu, Guojun On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:32 PM, johnrock <johnpi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Much Obliged everyone! It can seem overwhelming at first and I guess I have > been searching for the burgeoning best practices of Spring 2.5 in a basic > web app to help me focus in on where I should think about implementing it > first...I have used Struts2 and especially liked the validation framework > for handling forms, but is it overkill to think about using Struts2 and > Spring2.5? > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Is-Spring-worth-it--tp21692769p21717674.html > Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > >
