Re: [Springframework-developer] Re: Struts Spring Plugin

[Seth L. <se...@eh...>]

Matt Raible wrote:
> I'm in agreement with Don here.  I'm just looking for the best/easiest 
> solution to integrate the two.  When I first looked at this plugin, I 
> didn't like the fact that I had to declare my Action twice (once in 
> struts-config.xml and once in applicationContext.xml).  However, the 
> fact that I could use MockStrutsTestCase, as well as set my Managers 
> declaratively on my Actions made me really like it.  I'd like a 
> minimal-intrusion mechanism, but I'm willing to do whatever you feel is 
> best.  By minimal-intrusion, I mean I'd like to use an existing Action 
> with very little or no changes - only some tweaking in an XML file.  I 
> don't know if that's possible.

I integrated Struts + Spring by creating a SpringRequestController and 
overriding the createAction method to return from the Spring context.

This is working really well for us, because no changes to our Actions. 
We use xdoclet to make the struts-config, so we didn't want to use Don's 
code.

I passed this idea by Don, but he said this way isn't compatible w/ 
Tiles, and something else possibly.  He definitely knows better than I. :)

And you're right Matt, you have to declare your Actions twice (though 
XDoclet handles the struts-config declaration).

Seth