Aaron, Try not to think just in terms of EJBs. Instead picture the scenario of persistence management in general. Throw CMPs, BMPs, JDO, Session Beans, Etc. out on the table and consider what each is buying you. In some cases the benefit is in providing a JNDI lookup for other Apps to use if you have several clients using your module. In other cases the benefit is in the memory management features that allow an EJB container to out-perform the servlet container. For myself, I am in the process of ramping up the use of JDO within stateless session beans and Struts is providing the major command pattern breakout of different use cases in the servlet container. A lot of the lower level conditionals and case statement logic for data gathering/updating is in the session beans... some of which uses the strategy pattern for conditionally different persistence management operations. -Tony Aaron O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I know this question has probably been asked before, and that biased publications have had their opinions on it, but I wanted to get some feedback regarding some "real user experience" regarding the use of EJB in a web application used along with Struts.
I am creating a web application and I have decided to use struts. The application needs to be high performance, uses a single database (so it doesn't have heterogeneous transactional db requirements). I have designed the application in layers, and it will only have a web interface. It's starting small, but will grow to have many functions. Even though I'm confident that I need not invest in EJB's, I don't want to develop the application to find out I should have used them (hence why I'm creating this post). In what scenarios have people found the use of EJB beneficial? When have they been overkill? Does struts integrate smoothly with EJBs? My fear is that I'll make the application overly complex by implementing EJBs, but I'd like to hear from people with experience building large web-only projects with struts. Thanks, Aaron --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . Tony Baity . . . --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more
