Moving from Struts 1 to Struts 2 is non-trivial, but it is less work than moving from Struts 1 to any other platform I could name. Both codebases share the same architectural hallmarks. An application does not need to be "rethought". It most cases, an application needs to be streamlined by removing Struts 1 red tape. Struts 2 is a leaner, cleaner Struts 1.
Since the codebases do not share namespaces or step on each other's resources, one strategy is to just use both together. The old *.do URIs go to Struts 1, the new *.action URIs goto Struts 2. Then, once everyone is comfortable with Struts 2, the old actions can be migrated, one by one. I'm working on a tutorial that steps through a one-by-one migration. There's an early release here: * http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/STRUTS/Migrating+Tutorial But, as of just a few days ago, there's a third alternative. Thanks to Mr Don Brown, we now have a integration layer that will help use run Struts 1 members directly from Struts 2. I haven't looked at it yet myself, but I will be working on integrating the integration classes into the tutorial sometime this week. Until yesterday, we were recommending early adopters start with WebWork 2. But, we now have a Struts 2.0.0 test-build that we believe will be stable, and so that's now another likely starting point. We will be adding a few new things yet, but I doubt that there is anything left to take away in this release series. In my own work with the codebase, I've found the code to be rock solid. Struts 2 is a delight. The WebWork 2.2 team members are all on the Struts PMC now, and so they each have as much to say as anyone else around here. We've also had other WW developers, like Crazy Bob Lee, join us as Struts committers. Severaly "old hands" like myself and Don Brown are focussed on Struts 2 now, but there's a roughly equal number still working on Struts 1. -Ted. -- HTH, Ted. * http://www.husted.com/struts/ On 9/25/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anybody have any thoughts on whether somebody starting a new project should use WebWork or Struts 1.x? Any feel for what the upgrade pain will be from each one to Struts 2.0? From what I understand, WW is going to be the much simpler upgrade, but I'm wondering how simple. Also how is the WW activity? Struts 1.3.x still seems to have quite a few committers working on it, have all the WW guys moved onto Struts 2.0? I know that's all pretty open-ended, so whatever you can offer is great :) Anectdotal evidence of how long it took to migrate an X-page app would be great too. Thanks, Hen
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