Struts

[Karan Johar]

What advantage is there to use Struts 2 over Struts 1.2? Which one should be used.

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[David Newton]

Which "should" be used? That depends on many factors, most of which aren't technical.

On the technical side, Struts 2 wins hands-down--perhaps looking at some of the Struts 2 documentation would give you a laundry list of reasons why it's easier to develop under Struts 2 than Struts 1.

[Samson Mlati]

David Newton wrote:Which "should" be used? That depends on many factors, most of which aren't technical.

On the technical side, Struts 2 wins hands-down--perhaps looking at some of the Struts 2 documentation would give you a laundry list of reasons why it's easier to develop under Struts 2 than Struts 1.

I actually asked myself the same question earlier this week when starting a new project. I have used struts 1.2.9 and chose to continue to use it since its already integrated into my netbeans (v 6.0). Saves me a lot of trouble setting up ANT etc... Is struts 2 integrated into some netbeans version too?

[Karan Johar]

Samson, thankyou for your reply about using 1.2; but david newton says that

On the technical side, Struts 2 wins hands-down

how to proceed, what was your experience

[David Newton]

I don't know what you mean by "integrated in", and I'm not overly familiar with NetBeans. Even without integration, Struts 2 is so much cleaner than Struts 1 that there's just no contest for modern development, no contest at all. The thought of using Struts 1 again, considering all the great alternatives out there, is to painful to contemplate. Struts 1 was good for its time, but development methodologies have moved on.

[Karan Johar]

Struts 2 is so much cleaner than Struts 1

but how to tell that, everyone is having different information. even struts website is not taking any particular side except that struts 2 has more support for future.

[David Newton]

The Struts 2 home page has a laundry list of reasons why Struts 2 is nice--what other kind of information do you want?