Choosing an Application Framework
January 11th, 2004
Since I do not believe that Struts is the be all and end all of application frameworks, I’ve been looking around at the competition. There are quite a few. Since I believe that this IoC (Inversion of Control) thing is a Good Thing, I’ve restricted my search to those frameworks that manage not only the “actions” of an application but also it’s components.
Currently, there is the following:
I’ve been hearing some Bad Things about WebWork lately, nothing substantiated though.Another possibility is too do something homegrown on top of PicoContainer.
In then end, I realise that it is a very difficult topic. But I have a plan: I want to put together an evaluation sheet for frameworks. Please email me your thoughts and I will condense them into another posting.
Categories: J2EE
Bad Things? What have you heard, because I’m a big fan of WebWork (certainly version 2). Development is very active and the community is building.
Well, that was a while ago and I don’t remember the exact issue I had seen, sorry. Either way though, use Spring! It rocks. Really.
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