I've been looking at Expresso today, I was wondering for UI creation do you guys use struts tags or expresso tags?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:55 PM Subject: RE: Advice needed on Stuts versus Struts/Expresso > Bill: > > You shouldn't lose a thing by using Struts/Expresso in combination, as we've > incorporated the entire Struts framework into Expresso. On the flip side, > you would gain a powerful object/relational mapping layer, background job > queuing/scheduling, auto-generated UI's for prototyping, XML UI generation > (w/optional XSLT) and a bunch of other good stuff. > > We've extended the configuration to support a seperate struts-config.xml for > each application, and automatically merge them at startup, but basically > everything you are doing now in Struts you can do in Expresso, plus what > Expresso adds. > > Of course, I'm a bit biased, I'm lead developer on Expresso. :-) We're > currently at release 1.0 of Struts, but upgrades are indeed in the works. > Have a look at the doc on the site as well, and don't miss the Expresso > Developer's Guide - a lot of good material is in there, but people don't > seem to find it sometimes. 200+ pages of doc in total. > > Regards, > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:59 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Advice needed on Stuts versus Struts/Expresso > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've gotten a full app to work with Struts and have a good understanding > > of how things are supposed to be done and work. > > > > Now I am looking at possibly using Expresso to speed development. > > > > In anyone's experience what would I lose by moving to Expresso. I can > > see how it would speed development, but do I lose anything that struts > > gives me? Is there anything that I would come across that I could not > > do with Expresso that I could do with Struts? > > > > I've read all the JCorporate docs on the struts integration and such, > > but would like to draw on the experience of those more, well > > experienced. > > > > I guess I am at the point where I understand Struts so I am hesitant to > > move on to something else if I will just be coming back to struts later. > > > > My needs rotate mostly around rapid development of applications. > > > > Thanks much for this information and all the previous help in getting me > > going with struts. > > > > PS. For anyone starting with struts, get Ted Husted's struts-catalog and > > read it once a day while you are learning struts. In the beginning you > > may not understand it, but as the days go on, more and more will help > > you out. (Thanks Ted) > > > > > > Bill Chmura > > Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc. > > Information Technologies Department > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
