Spring newbie ?

[vijin das]

am newbie in spring ...need some understanding about the frame work ??

can i use spring as a replacer to struts ??

i think spring is popular than struts ??

what is the diffrence between two???

[Avishkar Nikale]

Vijin,

Spring is much more than replacement of Struts.

You can start with Spring in Action or other books mentioned in forum.

Concepts like Aspect Oriented Programming, Inversion of Control etc
will help you see what Spring actualy does is remove a lot of boiler plate code
& makes your application configurable to a higher extent.

Experienced Ranchers will be able to pitch in more details.

[David Newton]

Struts solves a very specific problem, Spring is more general-purpose and all-encompassing. Spring MVC would be the equivalent to Struts.

"More popular than Struts" depends on how you look at it.

[jas preet]

I think spring is better than struts in any of the cases.
No offenses to David. My own thinking

[vijin das]

in which way spring is better than struts am asking feature wise ..???

[David Newton]

You can't compare Spring to Struts. You can compare Spring MVC to Struts. And you can't really compare Spring MVC to Struts 1, only Struts 2 (well, you *could*, but Spring MVC would win hands-down against Struts 1). Personally, I still prefer Struts 2 to Spring MVC, but out-of-the-box they're functionally much the same.

[Avishkar Nikale]

David Newton wrote:You can't compare Spring to Struts. You can compare Spring MVC to Struts. And you can't really compare Spring MVC to Struts 1, only Struts 2 (well, you *could*, but Spring MVC would win hands-down against Struts 1). Personally, I still prefer Struts 2 to Spring MVC, but out-of-the-box they're functionally much the same.

Well said.