u should ignore this guy, he has never wrote a single web application. On 4/4/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mário Lopes wrote: > > Hi. > > > > First off, a little bit of my background. I've been developing with > > Java for a long time now. None of it was web based development. On > > this field, I've programmed with PHP, .NET, Ruby on Rails, Python, > > etc.. > > > > Now that I'm encharged of developing a Java/JSP/Servlets application I > > had to decide about a framework to ease my life. It had to have a > > strong MVC pattern to enforce organization. So I picked Struts :-) > > Mário, > > It is normal that someone in your position would pick Struts, since, at > first blush, it appears to be a kind of "standard". Also, it does have > the clear advantage that there are third-party tools based on Struts and > various books and so on. However, even taking these factors into > account, I think you should really think twice about starting new > development on top of Struts 1.x. > > For starters, development on Struts 1.x, a.k.a. Struts Classic, has been > more or less stagnant since about 2002. In the meantime, other web > application frameworks have been actively developed and are much more > advanced in what they offer. At this point, Struts 1.x is significantly > behind the state of the art in its application space. There is no > prospect of this changing. In fact, it will only become increasingly > technically obsolete over time. > > All new development that is taking place under the so-called "Struts > umbrella" is either going to be on Struts Action 2 or Struts Shale. > Struts Action 2 is a completely different product, which is really the > rebranding of a competing framework, called Webwork. Shale, OTOH, is > based on a completely different component-based paradigm, since it is > built on the Java Server Faces spec from Sun. The only thing it has in > common with Struts Classic (besides the name) is that the original > author is the same, Craig McClanahan. > > I think all of the above is objective information that is not in > dispute. Also, the implications are clear, which is that, starting new > projects with Struts 1.x is a very questionable decision at this stage > of history. It might well make sense for people who already have a > significant intellectual investment in the tool and, for whom, it is a > very comfortable thing they know. However, that does not seem to be your > case. > > Well, in closing, my advice would be to spend a bit more time to get > familiar with what is cooking in this java web application space before > settling on your tool set. Have a look at Webwork, and Spring MVC and > maybe other new frameworks such as Stripes. (The case of Webwork is kind > of special, since Struts Action 2, the next generation Struts action > framework, actually *is* Webwork!) In any case, I put it to you that the > extra time invested in researching your toolset will be made up many > times over down the road. > > Best Regards, > > Jonathan Revusky > -- > lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/ > > > > > Now that I've given it a test drive, some questions arose: > > > > 1) I tried using Eclipse, as I've always did, for developing. What IDE > > do you suggest? > > 2) I noticed that each time I did a simple change I had to build with > > ant to package a .war and then restart Tomcat to recognize it. Tomcat > > takes 20 secs to load which is absolutely unbearable. Is there a more > > agile way of doing things? > > 3) Is MyEclipse worth it? > > > > I think this is it.. for now :-) I'll be forever in debt for your kind > > replies. > > > > Regards, > > > > Mário Lopes > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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