Struts 1.1 Released

Evil Grinn writes "The long-awaited release of Struts 1.1 has finally happened. See the release notes for all of the changes since the last Release Candidate and also since Struts 1.0.2. Many new features are available in a stable production release for the first time today. Congratulations to the entire Struts team."

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Re:What is it ?

[Dibblah]

... After a whole 3 seconds of research... Struts homepage

"Welcome to Struts! The goal of this project is to provide an open source framework for building web applications."

Re:What is it ?

[Paul Bain]

Struts is a web application development framework (WADF), of which there are many. The proliferation of open source WADF's prompted Anthony Eden to begin his Wafer Project, which aims to compare

the many open source web application frameworks which are available using a common example application. This research project is designed to compare the application frameworks on a level field by specifying an example application so that the application features become irrelevent and the merits of each framework becomes the focus.

Anthony could probably use some help.

You can find many links related to Struts on Ted Husted's page, because he's the lead developer for Struts and the author of the O'Reilly thereon.

In the opinion of some of the smarter Java developers, Struts is no longer the best of the WADF's in the Java world. Some of them seem to prefer WebWork, which is now part of OpenSymphony. Debate over Struts is raging.

Check out an attempted improvement to Struts.