Re: Turbine vs. Struts

[Arafat Mohamed <amohamed@lallygag.net>]

Actually, Turbine is more than a template engine. It's a web application 
framework just like Struts. It does however integrate nicely with 
several template engines (velocity, webmacro, etc).

If you understand that Struts allows you to follow MVC pattern then 
here's the difference between the philosophy of Struts vs Turbine in a 
nutshell...

http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2/model2+1.html

-Arafat

Cynthia Jeness wrote:
> Jack,
> 
> Struts stresses the use of JSP and Taglibs while Turbine is a template 
> engine.    Both aim to help you build web  applications efficiently.  We 
> went with Struts because it is more widely used and, thus, better 
> known.   Also, the use of Taglibs seems to be the current thinking from 
> Sun in terms of facilitating the split between the business logic and 
> the HTML display.
> 
> Cindy Jeness
> 
> "Jack J. Coleman" wrote:
> 
>>  Does anyone know briefly, the main differences between Jakarta 
>> Turbine and Jakarta Struts?Are they both frameworks for the same 
>> propose, or are they completely different entities altogether?Thanks 
>> for any information.Jack Coleman
>