Viability of frameworks

[Debashish Chakrabarty]

Frameworks such as Struts cliam to ease your work. Notion is: The skeleton is there and you just need to tuck-in your code. But I feel that the learning curve to master these frameworks is considerable. What's your opinion?

[Jorge Blaz]

In my opinion, it's worth the time to learn it, then after you understand the framework then it's easier to develop a web application that supports the MVC, that's easy to maintain for different groups (web developers/java programmers) and that can support great choices like internationalization.

[Srikanth Shenoy]

I absolutely agree with Jorge.
Using Struts will not give the adrenaline rush of going thru building one's own, but it will help in the long run.
A lot of complex applications are being built using the web as the platform and custom MVC can make life only worse.
Regarding the learning curve - You can understand a lot of about Struts and very well get your first Struts application and it in 4-6 hours. Struts virtually has no learning curve at all..

[Srikanth Shenoy]

Coming to think of it...
4-6 hours (the time to learn Struts) is the time you would spend debugging that custom MVC..
So, you get the point....