How effective is STRUTS in Portal architecture?

[Siraj Shaik]

I am curious to know, how beneficial are STRUTS for a portal architecture e.g, WebSphere Portal or any other vendor? How do they fit in together? I know about STRUTS Portlets but it is just develop and deploy STRUTS application as a portlet, which ofcourse can be done on a regular J2EE server. Is there a real advantage to using STRUTS in Portal tools, When and Why?

If John Carnell or any body can respond, I appraciate it.

[John Carnell]

Hi Siraj,

I have some experience with Struts and Oracle's Portal Server. I had a great deal of difficulty intergating Struts in OPS because OPS did a great deal of manipulation of the URL when building out its page.

Everything that goes through Struts goes through the ActionServlet. However, when integrating into a portal, the redirect of the page to a Servlet is just one of usually many URL calls. So, I could never integrate a Struts app to stay in the "portal" window beyond the first screen of the applications.

Thanks,
John

[somkiat puisungnoen]

Reference Website
1. Developing and Deploying a Struts Application as a WebSphere Portal V5 Portlet
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0401_hanis/hanis.html

2.OracleAS Portal and Apache Struts Framework
http://portalstudio.oracle.com/pls/ops/docs/FOLDER/COMMUNITY/PDK/ARTICLES/pdkstruts/portal-struts-wp.html