Hello Struts users,
We are currently evaluating Struts and other web (MVC) frameworks and would like to
ask you some questions:
- Is there some struts-config XML-generation from some
modeling tool (Rose for instance) ?
We would like to design a state or activity diagram in
such a tool then generate the navigation XML file.
- Can struts behave like a real state machine ?
i.e. how to ensure that some Action is performed only if
another Action (or view but is not ideal) has been
performed with some result (success to be simple). We
would like this to be Struts-controlled, not developper-
controlled (check session variables, etc.).
We found the built-in Struts token system but this seem
only to be used to demarcate transactions in a set of
views. This allow to demarcate a transaction end (token
value change) but not an inconstency within the
transaction (i.e. i valide twice the first page of the
transaction) as the token value will not change.
- Why does the struts-example perform some scoped-
variables cleanup at the end of every Action ?
As these variables are defined as scoped in the struts-
config XML file, they should naturally live during the
specified scope lifetime. We don't understand that in the
struts-example (maybe this is not mandatory).
Thank you very much for your informations about Struts.
Laurent.
