Thanks that was a good analogy. I have used Spring and and I like it but then let me turn the question around, what do we gain by adding Struts 2 to be used with Spring? -Joe
________________________________ From: Gary Affonso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 12/21/2007 8:27 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: struts 2 vs struts 1+spring Joe Yuen wrote: > Well, that's kind of the essence of the question. What would you > loose if you did? It seems to me that there is quite a bit over > overlap to Struts2 and Spring. I guess it depends on the app. In most spring apps I've worked with losing Spring is sort of like losing the hub of a wagon-wheel and a bunch of the spokes. It aint gonna roll far, it certainly aint gonna take any weight. But maybe you inherited your app so you don't understand the value of Spring? In that case definitely go climb the curve. Or at least read some articles about why it's so cool. This list is probably not the place to get a Spring education. Or maybe you have an app where the use of Spring was just overkill? This happens. Spring comes with some complexity of its own and that complexity is completely unnecessary for very simple webapps (like a single form processing servlet). So if your app is very simple then Spring may, indeed, by buying you nothing but unnecessary headaches. Or maybe you're confusing Spring MVC (a small *portion* of the Spring framework) with Spring as a whole? Spring MVC does directly compete with S2 and other webapp frameworks. I don't use it, I don't recommend it. But Spring MVC is a small portion of the whole framework and very easy to ignore. The other 85% should leave you with a very good feeling in your pants. Or maybe you're just using Spring for one little thing (like an smtp library) and nothing else? I've seen this, too. Spring is like a buffet. You can take what you want and you can pretty much ignore everything else. You just want the pudding? Just eat the pudding. But it's when you fill your plate with some of each dish that Spring really shines. Each dish perfectly compliments another and the sum really is more than the parts. But even if you are just eating some pudding, even that alone might be reason enough to keep Spring. Spring has some great tasting pudding. - Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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