[ajug-members] Can anyone recommend a book for learningRubyon Rails?

[Christopher Mawata]

Struts 2 is very pleasant to use -- it is the documentation that is horrible. I just got through designing a Struts 2 course and had a devil of a time getting information.

The jsp Result is just one of the view technologies you can use. Freemarker, Velocity, JasperReports, Tiles etc. are all fair game. If you prefer JSF tags you just put the JSF plugin in the WEB-INF/lib and you are ready to use the jsf result (the JSF processing cycle is represented as interceptors in the jsfStack).

That said, think of Struts 2 as Webwork 2.3. It is very different from Struts 1 in fundamental ways (actions are thread safe but interceptors are not etc). As someone mentioned, "migrating" from Struts 1 is essentially a rewrite.

Chris Mawata


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From: "mike stittleburg" <mstittleburg at bellsouth.net>
To: <ajug-members at ajug.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:25:58 -0400
Subject: Re: [ajug-members] Can anyone recommend a book for learningRubyon	Rails?

Struts 2 == Webwork 2

That said it's an improvement over Struts 1.x but still tedious. The pure
java side (actions) are pretty straightforward. The greatest annoyance I
find is with developing the views (jsp,tags,...). All the binding is still
done with string attributes which is quite error prone. The tag libraries
seem rather lame compared to something like JSF or ASP.NET :).

I'm not convinced that the RnR view model is any less tedious and you are
still mixing code and markup in the same file.
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  Looked at Struts 2, but at the time didn't look ready for prime time.  It'
s completely different, so a rewrite in Struts 2 would be the same as a
rewrite in something with more sex appeal like Seam+Facelets.  Or Ruby on
Rails.




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  What version of Struts are you on?

  Struts 2 is far less tedious than Struts 1.x from what I've read. Have you
looked into that? Might be easier to migrate.


  "Dewberry, Jim" <jdewberry at connecture.com>



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