Advantage and DisAdvantage of Jakarta Strut

[Joe]

Can someone explain to me briefly the Advantage and DisAdvantage of
Jakarta Strut? Of course not all framework are created perfect. I came
across to it and it seems a good framework. But again, I know little
about struts.

Thanks for the responds !

 

[Andreas Wollschlaeger]

Can someone explain to me briefly the Advantage and DisAdvantage of
Jakarta Strut? Of course not all framework are created perfect. I came
across to it and it seems a good framework. But again, I know little
about struts.

Thanks for the responds !

The good thing about Struts is, it gives you a very streamlined approach
on handling dynamic webpages, especially those handling some kind of
forms and processing them. Using Struts thus enforces the use of "best
practices" for creating web applications and makes the writing of
spaghetti code much more difficult No more no less.

One of the disappointments of Struts, if it is one, that you have to
learn and understand the relations between the parts of the framework
before you get your first application up and running...

And there is something i call the "dark side of struts": Struts is about
separating presentation logic from business logic, but why on earth the
struts people included custom tags to integrate SQL-Statements into the
presentation tier, god knows...

But, if you ignore this SQL tags and get the idea, Struts is really
cool, but:

The reason i chose Struts for my last project were:

- everyone talks about the struts thing
- it is sometimes requested in job offerings

There might be comparable or even better Frameworks like Tapestry or
Echo....

Greetings
Andreas

 

[bOOyah]

The reason i chose Struts for my last project were:

- everyone talks about the struts thing
- it is sometimes requested in job offerings

There might be comparable or even better Frameworks like Tapestry or
Echo....

....Java Server Faces...

Can't wait until *that* hits the mainstream ;-)

Until then Struts is a fine choice for dynamic web apps, especially
when combined with Tiles. It is popular and well documented (there
are several books available for it).

You might also find these useful:
http://www.waferproject.org/feature-matrix2.html
http://versionary.com/archives/000026.html

 

[Sudsy]

Can someone explain to me briefly the Advantage and DisAdvantage of
Jakarta Strut? Of course not all framework are created perfect. I came
across to it and it seems a good framework. But again, I know little
about struts.

Thanks for the responds !

There's a lot of commonality in requirements and function for web-based
apps. You can either write your own tool set, reinvent the wheel every
time, or use a framework. Struts is arguably the most popular one out
there and does quite a good job, as long as you apply it appropriately.
The biggest problems I have with it, something others will likely note
as well, is that the learning curve is steep and documentation sparse.
Even armed with the book I still find myself digging in the dark
recesses of the source in order to determine how a particular operation
is performed. Here's a perfect example I ran into just yesterday:
<bean:write name="CATEGORY" property="id"/>
Guess what happens if the signature for the method is 'int getId()'?
The value is used as the key to a message in your MessageResources!
Be prepared to encounter a number of these "gotcha"s in Struts.
That said, once you're familiar with the framework you can develop new
applications relatively quickly and you won't have to spend time
debugging the underpinnings.