On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Chris Halverson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:16:01 -0600 > From: Chris Halverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Struts design flaw -- ActionForms are not true domain objects > > "James Childers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can't really use that outside of a servlet container. This is > > not a knock to Struts; it was never designed to be a general purpose > > MVC model. But noone is going to write a Swing app using Struts, for > > example. > > http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/Swing/ > > It can be done. > It can definitely be done -- but having to deal with GUI frameworks (MFC, AWT, Swing, SWT, ...) is so agonizingly painful that it's why I got involved in building applications for the web in the first place :-). Short answer: Struts was never intended to solve any "outside of a servlet container" problems, so it should hardly be surprising that using it that way is not particularly graceful. > cdh > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
