February 15, 2003
Finished the StoreFront WebWork Port
Ok, So I finished up most of the loose ends and tossed the project onto sourceforge for fun, you can go and grab it on there. Its been great,learned a bunch doing it. There is probably some more work to do but its as complete as the Struts version I believe.
I might make a velocity version too, could be a good way for me to get up to speed on that.
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February 15, 2003 01:47 PM
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So what conclusions have you come to in porting from Struts to Webwork? Which one seems easier? Which one seems more powerful?
Well, I think they are equally powerful, but I believe WebWork is easier and faster once you understand it, As for understanding it and getting up to speed quickly thats a known issue and problem which I wont get into too in depth here.
Basically Struts has more layers to it which can get cumbersome but it also has a big-time advantage that its a jakarta project, it has 6 books on the shelf, and has better docs and ramp up material
WW on the other hand cuts through some of that imho excessive abstraction see struts-config.xml vs views.properties,which I can definitely appreciate but has somewhat incomplete or out of date docs,and basically zero ramp up material.
In short though, If given a choice, I definitely choose WebWork, I'm hooked =)
I keep harping on this, but if you're into TDD then simply the ability with WW to test your actions without mockobjects or a running servlet engine would probably be the primary decision factor.
