Originally posted by Alaa Nassef:
Well, I'll have to disagree on this. The question wasn't about which is better. The question was about being de-facto. Struts 1.x used to be the de-facto platform, meaning that usually when someone wanted to build a java web application, he would just go to struts. This doesn't mean that it's the best, but it means that it's the most popular choice by far. The market share of struts 1.x is dropping due to the rise of other frameworks that are better, but as I said before, I think that it's still the framework of choice till now.
Are there any statistics to prove that Struts or any other framework is widely in use to claim the de facto standard in the industry? Or is it merely by
word of mouth or checking with friends and colleagues that we came to a conclusion that some framework is the de facto standard?
What I meant to say is, rather than dwelling over is it a de facto standard or not, evaluate to see if it meets your needs and if it does, use it.