As a profession developer I have taken to learning how to use Struts
for several reasons (besides being Java, and thus way cool).
It's free. It doesn't cost me anything to develop or deploy.
Open Source. If the development team die in a freak accident
from caffeine overdose at something like JavaOne then I can
continue to apply my own patches to it. If Oracle disappeared
tomorrow (or Cisco?) then who is going to apply patches, provide
support and have further releases?
if you end up developing your own framework, that's great
but why re-invent the wheel? Does it matter if it doesn't become
sanctioned? Your own framework won't become sanctioned? I developed
my own framework when Turbine was being developed and
discovered that amount of work it took was huge. I could have
adopted Turbine an done all the development with that (I
didn't because Turbine is huge and I was starting out with
JavaServlets, and the best way I learn is to do it myself.)
> 1) Is SunMicro going to be supporting STRUTS from a financial and/or
> marketing standpoint ?
> I only saw one tiny, tiny mention of STRUTS in the JAVAONE outline of
> presentations I just got in the mail.
> That bothers me.
>
> 2) If the answer to #1 is unknown, will JSP/Java serverside professional
> developers take the time to learn STRUTS and employee it in their web
> applications ?
>
> 3) If the answer to #1 is unknown, will corporations and consulting firms
> decide to committ to STRUTS in lieu of their own frameworks and methodology
> ?
>
> I am wading thru the one-inch thick documentation and I must say I am really
> impressed with the work done so far.
> However, as a consultant, I must be concerned about spending too much time
> with this if it is not going to become a popular or sanctioned approach in
> the webdev marketplace.
>
> Thoughts / feedback anyone ?
