Just remember that Struts 2 is not Struts 1, but Webwork 3 rebranded.

Most of the problems that I see Struts people doing the upgrade have involve assuming everything works the same under the hood – it doesn’t. Almost the same, but not quite.

Paul

I eventually become frustrated with Struts, and wound up writing my own MVC web framework (which worked out very well, thanks!)

Now that Struts 2.x seems to have removed many of the issues that were a concern, I’m giving it a try again.

I’ve only been working with it for a few days, but it looks good so far.

Also, you speak about ’struts does not feel like a component oriented’ – I assume you mean Struts 2 – well, Struts 2 is an action based framework. Comparing it to Tapestry and Seam is like comparing apples to oranges, wouldn’t you agree ? Struts 2 has some (basic) JSF support (I haven’t tried it) as well.

I can only assume you are a Tapestry user – well, good on ya, mate ! Be please do not be so blinded as to think Tapestry – or component based frameworks in general – are the way to go for all webbased development.
Choose the right tool for the job, and believe me when I say I’m certainly as productive in S2 as you will ever be in Tapestry.
Don’t forget, S2 hasn’t even reached GA yet, do not expect tools/vendor support to just ‘pop up’. You’ll get tool support for S2, you’ll get lots of plugins and goodies, and you’ll see Struts 2 is definitely going to be a strong contender in the Java webapp world.

My 2 cents.

I have seen a litte bit of webwork and struts 2 but it does not compare to other frameworks like tapestry, struts does not feel like a component oriented framework and it is still invasive in your code, regardless to say that it relies on knowledge and usage of the servlet api (using the api is what really bothers me) i believe that abstracting the servlet api and being non invasive in the html code would really rock, because

If you have a pretty invasive framework (struts 1, jsf) into your html code with etc etc and do not provide a tool to visualize then i really believe you are going into the wrong road or at least not the optimized one.

Other frameworks like webwork, spring mvc, jsf have been influenced by struts, but others like tapestry they do not, you can tell when you start working, and asking question: why I have been doing it the wrong way?

Cheers

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