Why struts when there is EJB?

[Shashi Kanta]

Hi,
I am a newbie to struts, but of late I am seeing that it is gaining so much importance, that everyone is talking about it.
And, as a result of that, companies are mentioning it in the required skill sets for recruitment adverisemnts.
When I just grazed through struts, I found that it uses MVC architecture.
What is confusing me is EJB does just that, and then why struts?
Is it because, it's smaller? What are the advantages it has over EJB?
TIA,
Shashi

[Pradeep bhatt]

EJB is for writing business logic and persistemt logic.

[Shashi Kanta]

Hi Pradeep,
Do you mean, struts cannot do that, and is meant for writing session data only?
Please clarify a little more in details..
Thanks,
Shashi

[Chris Mathews]

Struts is a widely using Web Framework for writing MVC Web Applications in Java. Struts handles the Controller piece and, to a less extent, the View piece of the puzzle. The Model piece(read business logic) is not addressed by Struts, nor is any certain approach dictated. Take a look at the Struts Project Page for more information.

[Ko Ko Naing]

Originally posted by Shashi Kanta:
What is confusing me is EJB does just that, and then why struts?
Is it because, it's smaller? What are the advantages it has over EJB?

I think u r trying to comparing things, which are in different tiers.... They are not replacable and each of them are not an alternative for the another one... So it's not reasonable to compare them....

[Prakash Dwivedi]

I think u r trying to comparing things, which are in different tiers.... They are not replacable and each of them are not an alternative for the another one...
To add a note on this, struts and ejbs work excellently together.

[Neal Ford]

Trying to compare Struts and EJB misses the point -- they are orthogonal technologies, which may complement one another. As others have stated, Struts is an MVC web framework, EJB is for encapsulating business logic.