Why to integrate Struts-Spring-Hibernate ?

[Abhijit Salunkhe]

Hi Pros,

I have seen many real time projects using integrated Struts MVC, Spring IOC and AOP, Hibernate ORM.

I can understand, the use of Hibernate for persistent layer, but I am wondering why to use Struts if we have Spring's own MVC ?

Anybody ?


Thanks in Advance,
Abhijit Salunkhe

[Hong Anderson]

Maybe, they have expertise in Struts.

[Joachim Rohde]

Or maybe they think that Struts is better than Spring MVC.

[Hong Anderson]

Joachim Rohde wrote:Or maybe they think that Struts is better than Spring MVC.

Which is wrong .

[Alec Lee]

For one thing, Spring MVC != Spring IOC/AOP. So using Spring IOC/AOP in business tier doesn't automatically suggest Spring MVC in web tier. This question basically trying to compare Struts 2 with Spring MVC which is better left to experts of both frameworks.

[Mark Spritzler]

Also maybe their app was already done in Struts, and they wanted to clean up their middle tier with Spring. Or maybe they started the app before Spring MVC was mature enough and chose Struts.

There are lots of valid reasons, and one answer in this case isn't necessarily right or wrong.

Mark