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From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@plumcreek.com> > To add to Joe's comments, a lot of the infrastructure is done > if you are working in a Sevlet environment. We use an open-source > framework called Struts (http://jakarta.apache.org/struts). The Struts link branches to a large number of resources. I reviewed the FAQ, user's guide, java docs, and followed several of the resource links. > Struts helps to enforce what Joe is talking about. Struts is designed > to supply a Model - View - Controller (MVC). Although I firmly believe in dividing interactive applications into model, view, and controller components, I'm a little distrustful of frameworks that "enforce" it. The interfaces supplied to enforce a particular design often translate to unforseen restrictions in the implentation of a application function. Have you run into that problem with Struts? > Overall, Struts is lightweight. If you need something more inclusive, > Expresso would be a good bet. Beyond this, you get into EJBs, > which simplify some operations, but complicate the overall design. There seems to be a huge difference between what ILE programmers and Java programmers consider to be "lightweight". I think I counted 185 classes in the java doc. Most classes exposed numerous constructors, properties, and methods. I'd consider Struts to be a "huge" framework. It looked like there was a great deal of overlap between Struts and the servlet, JSP, EJB framework already defined by Sun. How do you decide when to use a Struts class vs. a standard Java class? Nathan M. Andelin www.relational-data.com
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