I feel Struts may be an overkill for small project. Here are some of my concerns: 1)More number of classes (codes) to be written 2)If there are large html forms, then processing them may require extra coding effort. 3)Struts use lots of reflective, caching and inherited operations, which may hog most of your resources For a small deployment. 4)I think WAS 4.0.1 conforms to Servlet 2.1 and JSP 1.1 specs. Hence, latest Struts release may not work upto potential, since, it leverages upon later Servlet and JSP Specs. 5)There may be a learning curve to understand tenets of Struts MVC, if your team is new to MVC-2 Architecture.
However, you can draw upon Struts' MVC ideas to develop your own custom MVC architecture, in case of a small projects. Cheers, BJ -----Original Message----- From: Thiharie Rajesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Pros and Cons of Using Struts in small project -----Original Message----- From: Thiharie Rajesh Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:20 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Pros and Cons of Using Struts in small project 1. My project is small will involve 5-6 people for 4-5 months. My concern is that will it be appropriate using struts for such project. Answer - Your project at a minimum is of Minimum - 5 people * 4 months = 20 man months Maximum - 6 people * 5 months = 30 man months. A project of this size definitely calls for usage of Jakarta Struts. To ensure the best possible outcome apply the basic architectural principles of software construction when building your application, i.e, Performance Scalability Reliability Availability Extensibility Maintainability Manageability Security Building the application in Jakarta Struts will help you to constrain yourself in some of the above defined points by default. The others you will still have to take care of yourself. 2. Will it add to my development efforts Answer - Using Jakarta Struts may add some learning time to your schedule if your people are not hands-on conversant with Jakarta Struts. If they are conversant with Jakarta Struts hands-on it will not. However a 10 % overage will definitely be there no matter what their level of hands-on familiarity. 3. Has any body faced problem in using struts with Websphere 4.01 application server. If you face problems please go to http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user%40jakarta.apache.org/ Hope this helps Rajesh New Delhi, India -----Original Message----- From: Ashwani Kalra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pros and Cons of Using Struts in small project 1. My project is small will involve 5-6 people for 4-5 months. My concern is that will it be appropriate using struts for such project. 2. Will it add to my development efforts 3. Has any body faced problem in using struts with Websphere 4.01 application server. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ This email and any attached to it are confidential and intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please let us know by telephoning or emailing the sender. You should also delete the email and any attachment from your systems and should not copy the email or any attachment or disclose their content to any other person or entity. The views expressed here are not necessarily those of Churchill Insurance Group plc or its affiliates or subsidiaries. Thank you. Churchill Insurance Group plc. Company Registration Number - 2280426. England. Registered Office: Churchill Court, Westmoreland Road, Bromley, Kent BR1 1DP. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". ==========================================================================To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
