RE: Re: Servlets/JSP vs. Struts vs ??? (wasRE:Re:InfoWorld:"Developers show their independe

Joe,

Some refactoring will be necessary to take advantage of JSF in 
Struts applications, however there is a plan in place and that 
plan is much more likely minimize changes. I agree that custom 
tags are the weak link of Struts. Their main weakness is that they 
cannot be used easily in metadata driven applications. Their 
strength is that they do provide all the support 99% of 
application developers need and nicely encapsulate display 
functionality.

David Morris


>>> joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/9/2003 1:48:10 PM >>>
> From: Buck
> 
> I am out of my league, having only tinkered with Struts, but it
seems
to
> me
> that Struts is the JSP equivalent of externally defined workstation
files.
> It seems to me that writing Struts + JSP by hand is like writing
subfile
> DDS by hand (no SDA/Code designer.)

To me, Struts is more like coding DDS by hand, except that you can use
macros that include both the field name and the prompt, and it lays
them
out for you, but you can only use SOME of the edit codes.  It's faster
if the supported edit codes work for you, but impossible if they
don't.

For example, the Tiles tags are now included in Struts.  Which is
fine,
except that Tiles are already deprecated in common usage wuith the
coming of the JavaServer Faces spec.  There is no clear word as to how
the two (Struts and JSF) will co-exist.  So, at this time, my feeling
is
that Struts is still a moving target and that you're trading
flexibility
for some ease of programming.  This is always a poor trade in my book.

Joe