At 6:18 PM -0600 8/10/05, C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
Hello all,
I was reading about modules and I wonder if anyone had ever used them.
As far as I can see by the examples, if you have different modules you still
run only one ActionServlet.
It is true that you would only have one ActionServlet, but the
ActionServlet does very little work in Struts after initialization;
once an application is initialized, per-module RequestProcessor
objects do just about everything.
Hence modules seem to be useful only for group programming and
bigger projects.
Am I right on this?
This is probably right. After implementing one or two projects with
modules, I personally found that they don't fit my team's development
style. My feeling is that the original design of modules was for
software components that were pretty independent of each other, and
there are pretty substantial "walls" between modules. Yes, they
share the same ServletContext, but Struts tries to isolate modules
from each other, where I was frequently looking for more integration.
Personally, once I realized that you can use any number of
struts-config.xml, tiles-definition.xml and validation.xml files
without using modules, I had no further interest in "making modules
work" for my projects; the main gain I sought from them was
decomposing monolithic config files.
Perhaps someone else can provide a testimonial on why modules helped
them do something?
Joe
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