Re: latest best practice

From:

Lew <lew@nospam.lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:39:21 -0400

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"stixwix" <andywickson@gmail.com> wrote ...

Hi,

I've been away from java dev for a couple of years and don't really
know what has happened in the interim. At that time, a typical web
app would probably use struts and personally i avoided EJB completely.
So, is JSF better than struts (or would you use both?).
Has EJB become easier to understand or is it better to use Hibernate
or similar?
Has Google Web tool kit had an impact?

For smaller applications I use neither Struts nor JSF, but just write my own
controller servlet.

It's a little bit of work, but once you've done it once it only takes a couple
of hours to put together a complete web app ever onward.

The rest of the work, writing logic or "Action" classes and the DAO layer,
etc., is the same.

For larger apps, or ones that tend to evolve feature sets or maintenance
crews, frameworks are a better choice.

In that world I would prefer JSF because it's from Sun and because the rampant
abuse of Struts 1.1 soured me on that project. I am given to understand that
JSF and Struts could actually be used together, but I know not much of it.

I am just buckling down to learn JSF.

-- Lew