On 6/18/07, Sivapatham, Hari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Martin. I did look at the comparison. However as I don't know struts1, I am not able to judge whether a struts1 user would find struts2 concepts to be pretty much the same or radically different and hard to follow. I am looking for user perspective on how much of the knowledge gained from struts1 can be applied to struts2.
We are/have been a struts 1 shop for years.... While we didn't use all of the struts 1 bells and whistles that were available, we did make good use of it. Just started experimenting with struts 2 over last few weeks. You will feel right at home. All of the differences (so far) have been welcome additions. We were heavy users of dynaaction forms....and not having to establish all that configuration (just put the elements as class variables for the action) was a real time-saver. Plus the ajax theme stuff that makes it SOOO easy to have the results of an action simply update a div on the jsp is super slick (we did that before with home grown ajax via dwr, but with struts2, it is a breeze.) It's not as totally different as some people make out. You have still have JSP's that submit data to actions which then result in returns to JSP's. (or xhtml/freemarker as you see fit). I have had a very pleasant time over the last few weeks...making careful note of where I DON'T have to write code anymore and struts2 asserts it's 'convention over configuration' power. Good luck! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
