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."

Comments

Congratulations?

[KDan]

It took them long enough to decide to finally release a final version! :-P

I'm not complaining. It's great that they did - now finally all those IDE vendors are going to put real struts 1.1 support in their software. It's a very good step politically and for the general acceptation of Struts by corporations and such.

Daniel

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.

Re:What is it ?

[pmz]

Struts is a web application development framework (WADF), of which there are many.

While factually correct, "many" might be an understatement. It seems everyone and their uncle/brother/dog/etc. are inventing WADFs, which get haphazardly adopted by organizations throughout the world leaving web developers feeling their resume is somehow inadeqate.

Some of them seem to prefer WebWork, which is now part of OpenSymphony. Debate over Struts is raging.

This is what is so frustrating, where the turn-over in fashionable WADFs is rampant. I would cringe upon hearing "Struts is so, like, 2001." That was only two years ago! Ugh.

Rather than adopting a "framework" that is almost certain to fall short in its capacity, why don't web developers adopt something even better: objective simplicity. Frameworks can be a constant battling ground for new employees and old employees alike, when learning and re-learning the framework becomes burdensome. Isn't good software architecture supposed to make things intuitive, even to the average software developer?

I believe the multitude of frameworks are the product of severe NIH syndrome, rather than genuine well-intentioned common sense.