RE: architecture

Choosing between Struts or JSF is a shallow problem view. It's like deciding
between diesel or gasoline when buing a car. For me it it really a secondary
decision although I like modern turbodiesels. However for real vehicle
performance it's wiser to make decisions on more factors than just those.

I'm not meaning to start wars, I prefer JSF, but JSF itself doesn't solve
much yet. So I use JSF + Facelets + Seam + Spring. Other layers depends on
the project type.

Note that learnability doesn't necessarily mean productivity. IMHO struts
application tend to be a little bit easier to understand because it's
processing model is simpler. JSF promotes better programming patterns but is
more sophisticated. I must admit that when JSF appeared on the scene it
lacked productivity. We produced struts or webwork website much faster.
However after Facelets, Seam and numerous JSF based frameworks and
components arrived JSF's productivity jumped over Struts.

-- Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: measwel [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 7:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: architecture


If you were to start a new webapp project right now, what technology would
you choose?
The general requirements are:

- Application has to be able to handle 1000+ concurrent users.
- New developers must be able to learn the technology quickly

Would you choose:

Struts 2.1.6 or JSF 2.0 or maybe something else?

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