• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

Opinions wanted: struts or faces or jato ??

 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 125
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi
I've just started a new job and am refactoring and redesigning a JSP/servlet J2EE application which is running on Sun One AppServer 7. It is a real mess so far and I need to implement an application framework. This needs to:
- rationalise the design pattern
- make more efficient the form/event handler chain (currently using horrible URL encoding and a big if/else statement in the servlet).
- make app more structured so new modules,web services, servlets etc can be bolted on later.
I guess the big one is Struts, but I also thought Faces looked quite good. Seemed a bit more lightweight than Struts and more like asp.net in its event handling model. I also obtained a demo of "JATO/Sun One Application Framework" which is a Sun One Studio 4.1 plugin. This has really neat GUI design tools, like visual studio.net.
I do not have significant enough experience with JSP/servlets to make an informed decision as of yet, so would like to hear some opinions from JavaRanchers.
What I will say is that the thing I most miss moving from ASP.net to JSP is:
a) the total seperation of html/tags and code behind.
b) the way that the .net framework 'glues' the events from the html controls to your event handling methods for you.
If I had to pick something now I would just pick Struts, cos I know it is widely used so can't be that bad...!
thanks in advance,
john
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic