Re: Editorial on Struts' Long Term Future

[Craig R. McClanahan]

Menke, John wrote:

He seems to infer that Struts and JSF will not be compatable... this is not
true right???  

"Sadly, JSF is not backward compatible with Struts."
 

It's a little bit too simplistic to try to answer this as a true/false 
question.

I seem to remember Craig stating that Struts and JSF will be able to
coexist. 
 

There is indeed a library already in existence that lets you use 
JavaServer Faces components in a Struts-based app (replacing the Struts 
HTML tags):

   http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/struts/old/release/struts-faces/

Version 0.4 of this library works with the EA4 version of JavaServer 
Faces that is part of the Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.2 release from:

   http://java.sun.com/webservices/webservicespack/

The interface library is not done yet, but it illustrates the direction 
we're going on integration.  The proof of concept was to take the 
standard Struts example app, convert the JSP pages (one at a time) to 
use JavaServer Faces tags instead of Struts tags -- with a few simple 
tweaks to the struts-config.xml file and ZERO changes to the back end 
logic (form beans and actions).

Taking this approach, you'd still be using the Struts controller 
capabilities, rather than those provided by JavaServer Faces.  But it's 
the *perfect* way for an existing Struts based app to be able to take 
advantage of the new technology, and for people with large investments 
in Struts applications and expertise to be able to continue leveraging 
that investment.

If you're just starting out, or have an application requirement that 
isn't going to be deployed for a while yet, you owe it to yourself to 
examine JavaServer Faces as a standalone framework as well -- but many 
folks will find that the combination of JavaServer Faces and Struts will 
be the right answer.  That lets you take advantage of the component 
libraries and tools support that is going to become available for 
JavaServer Faces, and use Struts-specific features like the Validator 
Framework and Tiles, at the same time.

-jm
 

Craig

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You may find this editorial on J2EE/JSF/Struts interesting.
http://www.sdtimes.com/opinions/guestview_087.htm
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