Hi Bruce, First off I think I have definitely used your blog in the past, I just want to is has been very useful.
Now I would imagine the question you asked will lead to some very interesting answers that I look forward to reading. However on the whole, I don't think it could be class as bad practise using Spring, unless the size of your application isn't big enough to warrant it, but then if that was the case would you still use S2? I love Spring, I am a big fan of the coding by interface and decoupling of layers. I have fallen into (maybe a trap) the routine of using Struts (1/2) with Spring and Hibernate JPA. I find this a nice complement of tools and pretty much allows me to accomplish majority of what my web application sets out to do. For example and app I writing at the moment I am using Struts 2 Scriptaculous/Prototype Spring 2.5.5 Hibernate JPA I like splitting my application into layers of Actions Service DAO However with the light of the entitymanager a DAO is fast becoming slightly redundant as most of my DAO methods consist of one line. The beauty of Spring with transactions is the ability to mark out a tx boundry with simply using the @Tranactional annotation on the service method. This also allows for encapsulation (I hope I have the right OO term here) as you can this to the DAO methods but mark it as saying a tx is required and would fail if a tx isn't open. There is also stereotyping which allows you to mark classes as Service, DAO (actual @ is repository) or Controller (if you are using Spring MVC) this can lead to a more refined autowiring as well as pretty much eliminating the need for XML configuration. I personally use stereotyping for exception translation from the entitymanager (look for DataAccessException) this allows for a cleaner Service layer. I have also use Spring in conjunction with EJB's either looking up an EJB an injection into a POJO or injecting a POJO into an EJB - Very useful when coming across legacy projects... Spring is such a huge project and I don't think I have even used the tip of the ice berg. I hope this helps... James -----Original Message----- From: phillips1021 [mailto:bphill...@ku.edu] Sent: 25 November 2009 16:29 To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Is Using Spring With Struts 2 A Good Idea? At the University of Kansas (#1 college basketball team :) we use Struts 2 for our web application framework. Its worked very well for us. I've been learning the Spring framework and how to use it with Struts 2. I think the two frameworks work very well together. I'm preparing a class for the other Java developers on how to use Struts 2 and Spring together. As part of my research I'd like to hear from other Struts 2 developers on if you use Spring with Struts 2 and if you think its a good or bad practice. Thanks in advance for any feedback you can provide on why or why not it's a good idea to use Struts 2 with Spring. Bruce Phillips http://www.brucephillips.name/blog http://www.brucephillips.name/blog -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Is-Using-Spring-With-Struts-2-A-Good-Idea--tp26515 837p26515837.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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
