STRUTS VS TAPESTRY?

[jemminger]

Hello,

Anyone have experience with Tapestry?

http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/

Any opinions on how hard it is to learn/use Struts, and any limitations or shortcomings of Struts?

Thanks for your time!

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-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

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[sedj]

Struts looks great on paper, and it can be a really clean way of doing things, but you have to be very careful about how the Struts framework fits into not only your web application 'idea', and more importantly how it fits into your business structure. Personally, I like Struts, but I did HATE it. The problem is, is that we have mapped a Struts front-end onto an Oracle database. Now this is fine, except that when the whole "grand design" was being done, it was not thought about what Struts does best - filling in form data, and sending it back. To cut a long story short, to add, say one text field to a page, can result in writing up to 7 class files. Now, I admit this is not Struts' fault per-say, but its a warning that the framework can be dangerous and unflexible unless you take into account the business framework (of DB etc) before-hand !!!