Hi! i've using Spring-MVC for a couple of months so i hope that my comments
end to be useful to you.
2. Spring still requires a bunch of xml config. Stripes has
spoiled me. I hate wiring beans and views.
Freddy is right. Spring does have a way to autodiscover controllers. It uses
annotations for this purpose. Also, its capable of autowire other classes
using annotated DI. All of this is true as long as "the situations dont
stray from the convention".
Best regards.
Carlos Peña.
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Freddy Daoud <xf2...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi Nic,
>
> First, welcome back!
>
> > Now I am at a new company and they are
> > pushing spring from front to back. [...]
> > Some of the main concerns / problems I have run into so far
> > with Spring MVC are :
>
> While I certainly won't argue with you that Stripes is
> excellent - I am using it right now on a professional project
> and I still find it to be the highest help-to-hinder ratio
> framework - I've had some success with Spring as a second
> choice when the client wants a higher-profile solution.
>
> I was a bit surprised by some of the issues you ran into. I
> certainly could be wrong, but my understanding was that:
>
> > 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?
>
> Isn't there a flash scope which you can use to place your
> message, then redirect to your list of objects and display
> the message?
>
> > 2. Spring still requires a bunch of xml config. Stripes has
> > spoiled me. I hate wiring beans and views.
>
> While Stripes is hard to beat in terms of least-possible xml,
> what do you mean about wiring beans and views? I'm pretty sure
> that you can get Spring to autodiscover your controllers, and
> to use a convention for views, reducing the wiring to none
> except for situations that stray from the convention. No?
>
> > 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.
>
> Have to agree with you on that one. Even with Grails, which uses
> Spring under the covers, this is an issue. I have just about
> every Grails ebook in existence and none of them fully and
> accurately document these error message keys. I've often had
> to use a println or a log trace to get a list of the keys that
> it was attempting to find. Maybe this is documented online but
> I haven't seen a reference.
>
> Anyway, I'd be curious to know if I misunderstood something
> about the issues above.
>
> Again-- welcome back!
>
> Freddy
>
>
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