RE: Servlets/JSP vs. Struts vs ??? (was RE: Re: InfoWorld:"Developers show their independents treak , favoring Web-based apps")

>> What is the advantage to Struts vs. servlets/JSP?  How will it make
>> me and my people more productive?  What are you guys out there using?

> I don't use Struts, Mike, primarily because I just see it as another
> custom tag library.  It doesn't really ADD anything, it's just shorthand
> for certain features.  It's not that robust, in that it doesn't really
> add a lot of editing or anything, and so you're really locking yourself
> into that syntax just for the sake of a little less effort.  With
> competing technologies like JSF, it's too early to make a call as to
> which one will be "the" standard, if either.

> Personally, for now I'd rather use includes or a tool like WDSC with its
> really powerful templates to generate code that I can hand-tweak if
> needed.

Yeah.  I've played with one of the wizards (I forget which one) that sets
up and generates everything to call programs on the iSeries, and that seems
to work pretty well.  I figure I can get into the JSP's it generates to
customize the look.

But some of our apps call RPG programs that write to files, and then we
read those records out of the file with SQL functions in Net.Data.  I guess
I need to look at the querying wizards in WDSC?

I'd love to see some sort of best practices guide for moving from Net.Data
to Websphere.  I suppose that once we start doing this, I can write a worst
practices guide, because I'm sure we'll make lots of mistakes others can
learn from ;-)

Mike E.