Re: [TFUI] What's wrong with Struts?

Phlip wrote:

>TFUIers:
>
>In a private correspondence, a correspondent with a serious economic stake 
>in unit-testing all things Java and servletish confessed he avoids Struts 
>whenever possible.
>
>I haven't used it yet. Why would someone in a position to benefit both from
>its joys and its concerns avoid it?
>
Craig McClanahan doesn't seem to get the concept of interfaces.  As a 
result, your bean classes all have to inherit from ActionForm and the 
event handling Action classes have hard couplings to the HTTP Request 
and Response, an ActionForm instance, and an ActionMapping instance.  
So, testing the Actions is a pain at best, although it isn't impossible 
when you use CGLIB for mocking those classes.  We try to move as much 
functionality out of the Actions into simple helper classes.  Also, we 
found that there isn't an easy way to represent the view in a form 
that's testable.

There is StrutsTestCase, but we couldn't use it, and the reason why 
escapes me for the moment.

If you aren't doing TDD, then Struts is a great way to get a web 
application started and running.  However, it really doesn't lend itself 
to TDD or even unit testing very well.  IME, at least.

Dave Rooney
Mayford Technologies
http://www.mayford.ca


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