RE: [Springframework-developer] Re: Interesting Comparison of MVC Frameworks

[Tom K <tk...@co...>]

Thanks Matt for an objective view. Constructive criticism makes things
better.

Tom K.


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From: spr...@li...
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Of Matt Raible
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:46 AM
To: spr...@li...
Cc: spr...@li...
Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Re: Interestng Comparison of
MVC Frameworks

First of all, it should be said that this comparison is heavily biased=20
b/c I've used Struts ever since it came out in June 2001.=20

I think Spring has an awesome MVC framework.  The things I find missing=20
at its core are client-side validation and a rich JSP tag library.  You=20
can solve #1 with Commons Validator and #2 with JSP 2.0 Tag files -=20
neither of which are distributed with Spring.

I can understand the lack of JSP tags b/c the current tags allow you to=20
do WSIWIG editing (ala Tapestry) and also you get full control over the=20
HTML.  If I were able to make the leap to JSP 2.0, I would probably=20
choose Spring over WebWork and Struts.  It's easy to test and easy to=20
work with.  I just wish there was a way to have a parent class for your=20
Controllers and SimpleFormControllers.  A common base class in a web=20
framework controllers is something I've found useful.

I like all the ones I wrote about in the comparison and I will continue=20
to use them all.  I think Spring is better than Struts, but on par with=20
WebWork.  I just wish Spring had easier ways to do <select>s and=20
multi-select <select>s. You can't really compare Spring MVC to=20
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=20
>> frameworks. What makes it interesting is the question =93Which would =
I=20
>> choose?=94 since Matt is writing a book on Spring (Spring Live).=20
>> https://equinox.dev.java.net/framework-comparison/WebFrameworks.pdf
>



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