-Wes thank you for explaining. That's pretty much that i know. but things are confusing me. If i try to ask the question in smiplest way then it'd be like this
-- does it really matter what is the base framework? is there any such thing as base framework ? ..alee http://techboard.wordpress.com On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Wes Wannemacher <w...@wantii.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:52 AM, alee amin > <mailing.list.mail...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *One question that i asked earlier, going to ask again here. * > > > > integrating spring in struts through spring plugin, does not mean that > you > > have struts as your base framework and then adding spring as one part of > it? > > in my knowledge, spring is the base framework and other are added on top > of > > it. > > > [...] > > I don't really think of it as a one-framework-or-the-other kind of > setup. IMO, you really just have to know both. I use Struts for > building the UI and integrating with the business logic. The business > logic might include writing data to a database, calling remote web > services, etc. Struts doesn't really care about things like database > integration. Struts is built to deal with POJOs and assumes that your > business logic will be easily introspected (which is good design). > Spring fits in quite nicely to glue together the business logic and > turn it into easy to maintain POJOs. Things like JDBC or JPA > integration become quite a bit easier with Spring. So, I see my > applications like this - > > User Interface ------> Business Logic --------> Backend Systems > Struts ------> Spring --------> Database/Web Service/whatever > > Struts makes building the UI easy (if the business logic code is based > on simple beans). Spring makes it easy to build business logic code > that is based on beans. So, I don't know if that really answers your > question, but I will say that I prefer to know both pretty well. I > have looked at Spring MVC and it seems like the one attraction is how > well it is integrated with Spring Core. I prefer the tag library and > flexibility of Struts over it and with the Spring Plugin, the > integration between Struts & Spring is quite good. > > -Wes > > > > -- > Wes Wannemacher > Author - Struts 2 In Practice > Includes coverage of Struts 2.1, Spring, JPA, JQuery, Sitemesh and more > http://www.manning.com/wannemacher > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > >
