I threw all of my past experience with Struts out the window when I started my new job because we use WebWork. WebWork is approximately one thousand times better though so I’m not complaining. One of the unique to WebWork features (as compared to Struts) is the notion of a result type which is [...]
My latest project at work launched a couple weeks ago, unfortunately there isn’t much to look at, but it’s not like I’m a Flash developer, so unless I start writing Windows apps, no one will ever be able to see my work anyway. Alas, a major portion of the project involved consolidating some business [...]
Today I worked on a feature in a Struts web application where I needed to retrieve an RSS feed that is protected by Basic Authentication and then display the the results of the feed in a web page. I’ve heard alot about ROME in the past couple weeks, so I decided to try it [...]
Developing a Java web application (especially in Struts) is different in many ways from developing in ColdFusion, ASP or even ASP.NET. One of the major differences is the structure of the application; generally ColdFusion, ASP and ASP.NET applications are structured around the file system; you end up at http://www.myhost.com/corporate/default.asp or http://www.myhost.com/products/default.cfm. One of the core [...]
A couple weeks ago I wrote a short essay on some of the things that I ran into while working with Java and Jakarta Struts. Because I didn’t know what else to call it, I jokingly referred to it as Issue #1. Well, a month and a half later I think I have enough to [...]
The last couple weeks have been spent working on a couple different Struts applications, all of which will be deployed on Tomcat 5 with Hibernate. I’m finding that working with Struts is an enjoyable experience, the framework encourages true separation of HTML presentation and business logic and model.
As someone working on all aspects of the [...]
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