Re: [Springframework-developer] Struts vs. Spring Opinions/Pros/Cons

[Rod J. <rod...@in...>]

I don't have time for a more detailed comparison, but here are a few points:

- Spring is much more open. Absolutely everything is pluggable, althought
the API is no more complex than Struts. Recently at work people have had to
do really weird stuff to do Struts customization when the same could have
been achieved with Spring easily.
- It's view-agnostic, so you can use Velocity, XSLT/whatever as easily as
JSP
- It's part of a much bigger and nicely integrated whole. It builds
elegantly on the bean factory/application context concept, meaning that you
can build a true middle tier in the web container
- You can also easily use Spring AOP etc
- Like WebWork, it handles type conversion and type mismatches
automatically. No ugly copying into ActionForms, which cannot be domain
objects as they're forced to inherit a Struts superclass and depend on the
Servlet API

The only arguments I can see for Struts are:
- Everyone's familiar with it
- It has loads of tag libraries. This is the biggest pro. Although with JSTL
standardization that's not quite as strong an argument as it used to be.

If you want to use Struts, you can easily use a Spring BeanFactory to access
business objects. This is a great solution if there's already familiarity
with and investment in Struts. It doesn't compete with Struts in this usage,
just address the many areas Struts doesn't.

Regards,
Rod

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Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 4:37 PM
Subject: [Springframework-developer] Struts vs. Spring Opinions/Pros/Cons


> All,
>
> Some developers at work are currently looking at using a web application
> framework while developing internal web applications.  One of the
candidates is
> obviously Struts.  Since I am more of a database/middleware developer I
don't
> have much experience using Struts or Spring for any large scale web
application
> development.  Could any of you guys give me some arguments or pros and
cons for
> using Struts vs. Spring - like ease of use, type of apps that each would
be good
> for etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>
> PS.  Once we realease 0.9, this type of comparison information would
probably be
> good to post on our web site as well.
>
>
>
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