But you've decided to use struts2. Struts 2 is a complete rewrite, it's different than struts 1.
-Matej On 6/5/07, Florian Hehlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > The 3 key arguments against wicket were: > -It will be easier to hire someone with Struts knowledge on top of the fact > that we have some in-house knowledge with it. > -Struts is the de-facto standard with a lot of > community/vendor/documentation support > -Struts seems heavy on the java-code required for things that are pretty > simple with struts > > I agree that it was not a pure technology issue in the end and that the > comparison was not purely on technical capabilities. The ability to build > clean self-contained components as wicket allows was not at all appreciated. > They did not see the potential for us to build our own custom components on > top. Oddly enough that was seen as an "improper separation of concern" > because then java is used for presentation aspects like layout. Frankly I > think this is an idea that has been manufactured by other frameworks to sell > their scattered technology/markup/syntax framework approaches. > > I have dabbled with other frameworks and thought that for default behavior > it would be nice not to have a line of code per label in a table. There was > a comment that there is different handling in a DataView. But is that true? > I have used them and I had to add new Label(...) in the populateItem() > method. > > anyways... what can you do... I still think wicket is a pretty dam good > framework. > > thanks, > florian > > > > Peter Thomas wrote: > > > > > I am sad to announce that my company did not choose to use wicket after > > > comparison with struts 2. :-( > > > > > > One criticism that came out as we were looking at Wicket code was that > > > there seems to be a need to write a lot of Java code in a ListView for > > > such things as displaying a table. Although I did not see this issue as > > > out-weighing all the benefits, many of my colleagues did. > > > All I'll say is that I'm personally sure this is not about technology - > this has to be politics, and these colleagues must have already learnt > Struts2 and want to protect their investment or have the misconception that > Struts2 == Struts1. Or maybe they were swayed by some presentation that > used job search statistics to compare web ui frameworks... > > Sometimes it is a waste of time to try and convince people. Been there > done that. Just move on. > > Regards, > > Peter. > > ________________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > ________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
