Struts bashing
January 27th, 2005
Funny.
It still amazes me how condemning people are on struts nowadays though, when it was the first framework that at least did an effort to ease the way for web application development. I've just programmed a *servlet*, and I wouldn't go back programming forms with that.
I think this makes me understand better how people are still going wild about the Beatles -- they seem to think the Beatles are ultra-revolutionary, but to me, they are old stuff. But I guess they were indeed revolutionary in their days. It's the same for struts: for me, struts was an astonishing step forward in web development, but for others, it seems to be something antique. They have never known the era before struts, or they just forgot.
Boy, am I getting old.
Via Howard.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM ... and your getting older with thinking about things like that. Struts has many supporters yet. JSF should come, but has trouble climbing the hill.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM Hi, just wanted to say, I love the beatles, but Struts includes some concepts which already were old when it was in early alpha. Too much pointless formalism, not 'nuff object oriented design for the application builder for my taste.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM Frank: the point is not that Struts has no deficiencies, the point is that Struts was the best thing around back then.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM Been before struts, with and after :) It was pretty complicated from the start. And frankly I favored home-grown brew which worked better.