Re: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-29 Thread Ted Husted
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I thought I might add a query about performance related issues when reflection is used. This might be odd but many teams in my company have started using Struts without ActionForms. They use Actions and pick up the parameters from the request object. Are there any

Re: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-29 Thread Geeta Ramani
What's more, the on-line help on the Expresso list is probably the best I have ever encountered.. In fact, I suspect the lead developer of the project is a vampire so he never sleeps..;) You can also pay a pretty nominal amount for prime support - and if you contribute to their open-source

RE: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-29 Thread Sandra Cann
You may find it interesting to have a look at http://www.mvc2frameworks.org, a research site which has a BOF presentation we made at J1 on frameworks and a spreadsheet which details what/where frameworks focus. It explains how architectural frameworks (i.e. Expresso) are a superset of presentation

RE: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-29 Thread Sandra Cann
Lauri There is assurance in using the stable, defacto standard Struts for your application, ensuring longevity of your investment. As also mentioned by some folks here, Expresso extends Struts with those pieces such as caching and much more. Using Struts/Expresso we have a number of web-based

RE: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-28 Thread Nick Faiz
Lauri, I'm still learning Struts myself, so I won't comment on its scalability or give an opinion of it. WebWork at OpenSymphony.com is an alternative MVC to consider. Nick Faiz -Original Message- From: Lauri Jutila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 October

RE: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-28 Thread Daniel Washusen
-Original Message- From: Lauri Jutila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Planning Struts Application Development Hello folks, I'm engaging in a web development project and my team is looking at Struts as a primary

Re: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-28 Thread Vic Cekvenich
Lauri Jutila wrote: We would like our application to support at least hundreds of concurrent users. What kind of issues does this arise in terms of hardware and software/application configurations? How many users per app server would be feasible 2,000 concurent users to 4,000 concurent users

Re: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-28 Thread mradhakrishnan
Hi I thought I might add a query about performance related issues when reflection is used. This might be odd but many teams in my company have started using Struts without ActionForms. They use Actions and pick up the parameters from the request object. Are there any benchmarks that prove

Re: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-28 Thread Frank Rizzo
remember that struts is just a bunch of java classes, so any scalability and hardware questions can really be boiled down to is java performant enough for our application? struts is really just a layer between your business objects and the web browser. Any caching should happen between the

RE: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-28 Thread Joshua Davis
Subject: Re: Planning Struts Application Development [snip] If it is a non trivial web application, and it will be written in java, then you should use Struts. If you don't, the developers will just end up writing (and debugging) what is already done for them in Struts

RE: Planning Struts Application Development

2003-10-28 Thread Andrew Hill
You might want to take a look at Jcorporates OpenSource Expresso framework. http://www.jcorporate.com/ Ive not used it myself yet so cant give you an experienced opinion, but it uses struts and provides whole bunch of other goodies which migh help you get a head start on your project.