Re: Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-28 Thread johnrock
for handling forms, but is it overkill to think about using Struts2 and Spring2.5? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-Spring-worth-it--tp21692769p21717674.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-28 Thread Dave Newton
johnrock wrote: but is it overkill to think about using Struts2 and Spring2.5? Why would it be? I use Spring 2.5 for DI, AOP, and a few other minor things. Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org

Re: Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-28 Thread Guojun Zhu
about implementing it first...I have used Struts2 and especially liked the validation framework for handling forms, but is it overkill to think about using Struts2 and Spring2.5? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-Spring-worth-it--tp21692769p21717674.html Sent from

Re: Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-28 Thread Frans Thamura
think about implementing it first...I have used Struts2 and especially liked the validation framework for handling forms, but is it overkill to think about using Struts2 and Spring2.5? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-Spring-worth-it--tp21692769p21717674.html Sent

Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-27 Thread johnrock
? that is awesome! Can anyone offer me some clarity here? Thanks John -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-Spring-worth-it--tp21692769p21692769.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

[OT] Re: Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Newton
johnrock wrote: from what I have studied so far it just looks like Spring introduces twice as much complexity to solve the standard types of problems. Can you provide an example of this? I haven't run into much that Spring makes *more* complicated. This perception may also be affected by

Re: Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-27 Thread Guojun Zhu
example that makes me say: oh yeah? that is awesome! Can anyone offer me some clarity here? Thanks John -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-Spring-worth-it--tp21692769p21692769.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-27 Thread Ralf Fischer
In my opinion this depends on the preferences of the developer and how he likes to organize his code. I never used Spring much. In the past I could never get used to the XML configurations. I simply don't like it. I especially don't like it in EJB2. Up to now I never had time to check out

Re: Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-27 Thread dusty
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Re: Is Spring worth it?

2009-01-27 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I think one of the benefits of Spring is that, theoretically at least, it allows for a somewhat more vendor-neutral approach to development. For example... where I work, we're a Websphere shop. For better or worse, period, that's it, end of story. As a result I've seen many developers doing