This reminds me of the adage a former professor of mine used to preach: "It is much easier to build a program than to give birth to one."
The "pump out a list of components" and "while bringing the page to life" parts of your message make it sound an awful lot like your project management is involved in obstetrics in addition to software development. :) Seriously, though, you *will* run into problems doing things this way. For instance, having a junior developer create 60 form beans for the expected inputs on each page has several implications: 1. Your action developers will have to modify the beans anyway most likely because the form bean developer cannot know things like whether an array or a List is more appropriate for collection data in a particular instance (this usually depends on the Action). 2. A naming convention for the beans must be established or madness will ensue. 3. It may make sense to re-use a form bean for different jsps, or nest form beans depending on the implementation of the action classes. The form bean developer will not know the nature of this implementation ahead of time and thus cannot make these decisions. b.t.w., there are tools (or you can build your own) for generating basic ActionForm beans, so this is not really an issue anyway. > I have always assumed that the action classes would be completed > at the same > time that the page is converted to jsp/struts. Add "ActionForm classes" to the above statement and you are entirely correct. We tend to view an Action, its ActionForm, and the presentation logic (i.e., Struts tags) in their associated JSP(s) as an "action module" of sorts, and a single developer is resonsible for these components. Things become very messy when you try to split the JSP, ActionForm, and Action work to different developers, IMHO. My $.02 ( more like $1.02?) peace, Joe Barefoot > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 4:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Struts Design/construction process. question > > > > > This is our *FIRST* Struts project and we are putting together a > construction > plan. > > I would like to find out how other projects divide the work > between developers. > Our project management would like to see a developer pump out a list(s) of > disconnected components and have one person "connect" them together. > > Our page layout is well in place, and I can create a list of form beans. > *note - we are not using dynabeans. > > So... our HMTL guy can go ahead a create the 60 pages in one shot. > A junior developer can create 60 form beans.... > > If you are not using something like Junit, is it practical to > design and create > many action classes ahead of time? > > I have always assumed that the action classes would be completed > at the same > time that the page is converted to jsp/struts. > I would have already created a generic template (that would > compile and run ), > so it seems to me that the final code in the perform method > would be added while brining the page to life. > > I would enjoy hearing other stories. > > > > -- > 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]>
