Well folks, its been a while since I've been contributing / using Stripes and I can tell you its been painful! My latest venture is with a company that is bent on using Spring front to back. I can't say spring isn't a good framework but I looked at it several years ago when the new EJB3 spec came out and honestly, I switched and never looked back. I was in charge of finding a presentation layer and had been using struts at the time. Stripes was brand new. I looked through Spring, Webwork, etc. and decided to go with Stripes. Best decision I ever made. Now I am at a new company and they are pushing spring from front to back. I honestly have given it a decent try and Spring MVC still seems just waaay too non-intuitive and I don't see you getting much bang for the buck. I am going to work on a project over the weekend that uses Stripes / EJB3 insteat of Spring / Spring / Hibernate just to give a demo for co-workers on Monday. My line of thinking is Stripes for the web and put the business logic / data access on glassfish or jboss using a stateless facade or web services to expose this layer. I know there are a ton of smart folks on here and I was wondering if you folks could give some personal experiences / knowledge regarding an all spring solution vs the stripes / ejb3 solution I would rather take.
Some of the main concerns / problems I have run into so far with Spring MVC are : 1. Error Handling JSR-303 really isn't that great. Plus, how do I get success messages back to the user? They want you to forward to a success page. I just want to forward back to the list of objects with a success message. Why is that so hard? 2. Spring still requires a bunch of xml config. Stripes has spoiled me. I hate wiring beans and views. 3. Internationalization. Stripes is extremely and intuitive. Spring has me guessing as to what the crap key its looking for to display an error message or some other message that I'm not calling myself. Thanks In Advance. I hope I'm back in the business of programming stripes and have another company to add to the list. Nic
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