Hey Mr. DJ :) > 1. The client has heard of Struts and knows it 'works'.
While that may be comforting, it's a weak argument. We know just plain Servlets work; it doesn't mean we'd recommend developing webapps with just plain Servlets. Stripes also 'works'. I've worked on real-world apps with Stripes and so have others. It's way past the "only demos have been built with it" stage. > 2. Nobody (in France) knows Stripes (he does all the 'technical' interviews). I'd argue that all Struts 1 resources are eligible to be considered as Stripes resources. As you've mentioned, it takes very little time for a Struts 1 dev to learn Stripes. It's mostly about unlearning the habit of having to maintain a bunch of config files. > 3. Why should he propose an unheard of framework? Innovation. Doing something just because everyone else is doing it, when that something is using Struts 1, deprives you of having an edge on your competition. > 4. Once the project is 'finished' and we're all gone, how will the client find other developers with stripes skills? See #2. Find a Struts dev and they'll get up to speed with Stripes in little time. > 5. Why should the client accept training his internal staff when they already 'know' Struts, and no one uses it or has heard of it. Because the return on the investment will keep coming in again and again as your developers will be much more productive, developing new features and maintaining applications. The number of days of development and maintenance of applications being much, much higher than the number of days of training required to learn Stripes, it's easy to see the payoff. Also, less code means less maintenance. I haven't done any metrics with Struts, but with JSF our switch to Stripes resulted in 40% less code overall. Finally, for training, there is (apologies/disclaimer/warning: shameless plug in 3, 2, 1) a Stripes book available :) Hope that helps. Let us know what happens. Cheers, Freddy http://www.stripesbook.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
