Russell Neufeld wrote:
What's the future of the dojo plugin for Struts2?
It's deprecated; beyond that I'm not sure where it will end up. It's unlikely there will be many bugfixes for it (although some may happen), and it's substantially less likely that it will ever be upgraded to a modern version of Dojo. I'd guess it won't just go away, but support for it won't be officially provided by the Struts team (I don't know this, I'm just guessing--there's been no real official discussion beyond the deprecation).
Are other people moving away from dojo? Is there any other ajax library that integrates particularly nicely which Struts2 that we should check out?
There's nothing particularly S2-friendly about Dojo, it was just what happened to be used first. There's a minimal jQuery plugin in the pipeline, but it's not intended to be as full-featured as the Dojo plugin was.
I think our general philosophy is that JavaScript stuff belongs in JavaScript, as it's easier to deal with, understand, debug, etc. than when it's wrapped up in tags. That doesn't mean there's no place for tag-based JavaScript, but there are just too many options, and we can't implement all of them.
Modern Dojo seems pretty decent, and people are using recent Dojo, but others using YUI, GWT, jQuery, Prototype, Ext, and so on--from my viewpoint the choice of which to use depends more on what specific capabilities you need, the style of JavaScript you like to write, the components you need, and so on.
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