Hi,
Does struts has any facility to show fields having validation error in
red color or mark it in some way?
Thanks
Ashwani
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From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:44 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Struts vs .NET??? -> Real Stats
Actually, this did not help me at all. I understand that differences,
etc. I just wondered what you thought, since I thought your conclusions
were contrary to the facts.
On 7/3/05, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 11:48:37PM -0700, Dakota Jack wrote:
> } What is your basis for your assessment of .NET and Struts? What
> sort } of problem are you talking about/
>
> My assessment is based on my own development experience with both,
> plus lurking on this list for a few years. I will reiterate that I am
> not interested in converting Java/Struts developers to C#/.NET
> developers; I want Java and Struts to be the best they can be, and
> that knowing the competition is a step toward that.
>
> I posted something fairly in-depth about the advantages of
> C#-the-language over Java-the-language. Check the archives for the
> last couple of days. A few of those advantages have to do with the
> .NET runtime itself (in particular, 1) properties being first-class
> reflectable objects, just like methods and members, rather than
> derived from the JavaBeans get/set naming convention, and 2) events
> and delegate (method pointer) types being first-class reflectable
objects rather than using interfaces for handlers).
> For now, Java has the advantages of generics and anonymous inner
> classes over C#, but the next version of C# (due out this year, and
> what I'm hearing about the betas leads me to believe that it will
> actually be out this year) supports both of those and simplifies a few
> other common idioms (iteration, in particular).
>
> I have not done any comparison of .NET vs. Java performance, nor have
> I compared their garbage collection strategies or threading models.
> They seem to be pretty similar, and they can be expected to maintain
> very similar performance profiles since the optimization techniques
> for such things are old in academia and well-published. Their
> different choices of performance tradeoffs may eventually effect their
> usefulness for particular purposes, at which point it may be
> appropriate to choose one or the other based on one's specific
application.
>
> The APIs (system libraries and extension libraries) considered part of
> either Java or .NET are pretty similar. Java has a much larger set of
> third-party free libraries (in good part thanks to Apache's Jakarta
> project), but many of those are being ported to .NET. On the other
> hand, there are many commercially-licensed components for .NET, and
> there are likely to be more, simply because it is in the Microsoft
> world. I don't have exact (or meaningful) figures on this, so take it
> with a grain of salt. Anecdotally, I can say that in a previous
> project I sought a particular ASP.NET control and found dozens of
> candidates, commercial and otherwise, and the one that best suited our
> application was commercial. (We bought it, we used it, their tech
> support was excellent (including accepting patches from me), and it
> did what we needed.)
>
> Comparing JSP and Struts to ASP.NET turns up sharp corners in both.
> It's very easy to encapsulate functionality in a custom tag in
> ASP.NET, much harder to do so for JSP. Struts abstracts away the
> specifics of the generated HTML (both outgoing HTML and incoming form
> data), which supports the MVC model; ASP.NET requires a bit more
hoop-jumping to do so.
> Validation, both server-side and client-side, is far easier in ASP.NET
> than with Struts. ASP.NET has almost no configuration required other
> than the .aspx/.ascx (equivalent to .jsp) files themselves, whereas
> Struts requires a configuration file that grows increasingly
> complicated as the site grows larger (though, to its credit, it does
> centralize the transition graph of the site). Neither Struts nor
> ASP.NET cares much about business objects, but both can deal with them
> just like any other object. Finally, while ASP.NET scales well from a
> single page to an entire site, Struts doesn't really shine until you
get to at least 5-10 separate forms/pages.
>
> I hope this is a useful answer to your question.
>
> --Greg
>
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