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Struts vs. JavaServer Faces

Trying to Decide Between Struts and JavaServer Faces?

Compare the advantages of Apache Jakarta Struts and JavaServer Faces.
Use the easy guidelines below to decide when to use JavaServer Faces,
Struts or both.

The Advantages of Struts: Mature and proven Lots of documentation and reference materials Large developer base Broad tool and IDE support Open source

The Advantages of JavaServer Faces: Standard UI component model Robust event handling mechanism Render kit support for different clients Highly 'pluggable' - components, view handler, etc Governed by JCP

Basic Guidelines for Deciding between Struts and JavaServer Faces

Use JavaServer Faces only for these situations:

• Most new applications
  - JavaServer Faces is the 'future' and a new application is a great
  opportunity to get there - just allow time for the learning curve
• Applications with sophisticated user interfaces - standard and third party JavaServer Faces components will make it easier to assemble complex UIs
  
• Applications requiring multiple client support - as new non-HTML render kits become available (WML, XML, etc) you can just plug-in support for other clients
  
• Smaller Struts applications that require significant upgrades - since both have a basic MVC engine, re-using or converting your current code won't be hard

Use both Struts and JavaServer Faces for these situations:

• Larger Struts applications that require significant upgrades - in this case, keep your current code where possible and use JavaServer Faces for the new parts
  
• Integrating selected JSF components into an existing Struts applications
  - although not quite as easy as doing so in a JavaServer Faces app, you
  can insert and 'wire-up' JavaServer Faces components in Struts as well.
  

Use Struts for these situations:

• Existing Struts applications that need minor enhancements - Struts is not going away anytime soon, so if your Struts app just needs tweaking, stick with it
  
• New applications with an expedited timeline - if you have to get a project done quickly and your team already knows Struts, the proven technology is a better bet
  

Ref:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=553126&forumID=427

http://www.simplica.com/strutsvsjsf.htm

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