Re: [Springframework-developer] Re: Interestng Comparison of MVC Frameworks

[Matt R. <li...@ra...>]

First of all, it should be said that this comparison is heavily biased 
b/c I've used Struts ever since it came out in June 2001. 

I think Spring has an awesome MVC framework.  The things I find missing 
at its core are client-side validation and a rich JSP tag library.  You 
can solve #1 with Commons Validator and #2 with JSP 2.0 Tag files - 
neither of which are distributed with Spring.

I can understand the lack of JSP tags b/c the current tags allow you to 
do WSIWIG editing (ala Tapestry) and also you get full control over the 
HTML.  If I were able to make the leap to JSP 2.0, I would probably 
choose Spring over WebWork and Struts.  It's easy to test and easy to 
work with.  I just wish there was a way to have a parent class for your 
Controllers and SimpleFormControllers.  A common base class in a web 
framework controllers is something I've found useful.

I like all the ones I wrote about in the comparison and I will continue 
to use them all.  I think Spring is better than Struts, but on par with 
WebWork.  I just wish Spring had easier ways to do <select>s and 
multi-select <select>s. You can't really compare Spring MVC to 
Tapestry/JSF because it's a different type of development (request-based 
vs. component/event).  I would recommend starting a new project with any 
of these 5 frameworks.

Matt

Ernesto Echeverria wrote:

> well yes, Matt where did you leave spring?
>
> Tom K wrote:
>
>> Very interesting pdf presentation on the comparisons of MVC 
>> frameworks. What makes it interesting is the question “Which would I 
>> choose?” since Matt is writing a book on Spring (Spring Live). 
>> https://equinox.dev.java.net/framework-comparison/WebFrameworks.pdf
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