Please help me to decide which one to use

[Edisandro Bessa]

Hi guys,

On my postgraduate final thesis I'm expected to develop a WEB App from the scratch.

According to teachers, learning some new WEB framework are fully encouraged and of course, a guarantee of earn some more points when evaluated.

The question where I need your help is :

I'm quite confortable with Struts but taking a look at Spring FrameWork I found some features very exciting, specially the feature where you can use your own POJO without the need of using the similar Action classes existing in Struts.

I also found very exciting the fact that almost everything in Spring can be implemented based on Interfaces which leverages flexibility.

Well, I have a lot of Struts stuff and no Spring stuff (Although I think is not a problem).

So,

I would like to hear your honest opinions if you were me, what would you do.

I'm really tempted to stick with Spring even though I'm very very very confortable with Struts.

TIA,
Edisandro Bessa.

[Avinash Rawana]

I've used Struts and Spring in production environments which good results. Personally, I do more work with Spring because of its tight integration with Hibernate. The documentation is excellent and it can handle a lot of the tough stuff without breaking a sweat. It never hurts to know many frameworks, especially when they are all good competition. I recently tried other frameworks such as Wicket, Click and Tapestry, but none of them offered the documentation that Spring and Struts have. I were you, I'd learn Spring and also look up how to integrate them together (Excellent stuff).

IBM has an article on integration Spring with Struts.


-Avinash

[Edisandro Bessa]

Thanks Avinash for your reply.

[Gregg Bolinger]

If you are very comfortable with Struts but want to try something new without completely stepping out of your comfort zone, I'd suggest taking a look at Stripes.

It's easy to grasp and even easier coming from a Struts background.

[Scott Duncan]

Have you decided on what your web app will do? I tend to choose frameworks based on what I am trying to accomplish.

I know this is the Java ranch, and I hesitate to bring it up because it is bound to cause an uproar, but have you given any consideration to Ruby on Rails?