[Opensource] Expresso with WebWorks

[Mike Traum]

I haven't used WebWork, but here are some of my thoughts - if someone
could confirm that these thoughts are sound, I'd appreciate it... 

When we say that we're using struts with expresso, generally that means
that we're using the taglib's, but not the entire framework (although
that happens on the back end, but that's besides the point). If you use
the entire struts framework, you'd be writing struts Action objects
instead of expresso Controller objects. In doing so, you lose a some of
expresso's functionality: easily configurable Controller security, built
in system error events, built in xml/xsl, and probably more that I can't
think of right now. But, you would still retain access to a lot:
DBObjects, Login/Registration system (assuming that you're ok with that
not being pure struts), Caching, DB Connection Pooling, easy config
system, Job System, etc etc etc.

I think the same holds true for WebWork ... when you use WebWork, it has
it's own 'controller' objects, so you wouldn't be using expresso's
Controller objects and would lose some functionality. However, you would
still have access to much of expresso that is not directly tied to
Controller.

Make sense?

mike

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 00:41, Venkatesh Krishnamurthy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are looking at developing a web application using Expresso with
> webworks. Has anybody tried this combination before ? any
> inputs/resources are highly appreciated. I know that people recommend
> the combination of struts with Expresso, but is there harm in trying the
> above combination (Expresso with webworks) ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Venkatesh
> 
> 
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