How stable is struts?

[Mark McLaren <ma...@mail.com>]

Hi,

I like a lot of the functionality of Struts and am considering using struts
as a framwork for a very large commercial e-commerce site.  However, I have
reservations about using alpha code.  My questions are:

1.  How buggy is the code?  Have many developers found that they spent much
of their time trawling through the struts source code to fix a bug rather
than developing application-specific code?

2.  When will version 1.0 be released?  I'm not looking for a binding
commitment, just an estimate (e.g. Next month? Next quarter? Next year?)

3.  Are there any large commercial sites that currently use struts?

Many thanks

Mark


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Re: How stable is struts?

[Ted Husted <ne...@husted.com>]

Ted Husted wrote:
> Seriously, we need to clean up the remaining items on the 1.0 TODO list,
> and any showstoppers in bugzilla. Then we freeze the build for beta
> testing, vote, and release.

I really should have said "final release testing". 

In practice, the current releases are being actively beta-tested by
hundreds of developers every day. 

-- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
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Re: How stable is struts?

[Ted Husted <ne...@husted.com>]

Mark McLaren wrote:
> 1.  How buggy is the code?  

The code is very stable. You can check bugzilla for outstanding issues. 

< http://jakarta.apache.org/site/bugs.html >
 
> 2.  When will version 1.0 be released?  I'm not looking for a binding
> commitment, just an estimate (e.g. Next month? Next quarter? Next year?)

I believe Craig has said that if it doesn't come out this quarter, he
will probably be lynched ;-)

Seriously, we need to clean up the remaining items on the 1.0 TODO list,
and any showstoppers in bugzilla. Then we freeze the build for beta
testing, vote, and release.

> 3.  Are there any large commercial sites that currently use struts?

I'm aware that there are several very large projects in the work. Struts
was "born" less than a year ago, and so there hasn't been time to
develop anything truly huge. Check here for a "Powered by Struts" list 

< http://husted.com/about/struts/kickstart.html >

-- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
-- Custom Software ~ Technical Services.
-- Tel 716 425-0252; Fax 716 223-2506.
-- http://www.husted.com/about/struts/