Building struts UIs

[Will Spies/Towers Perrin <sp...@towers.com>]

I have a generic question. We use struts. Struts *really* doesn't help much
with rapidly building UIs. I'm sure everyone here realizes this. I do not
want to abandon struts, I've have had great experience with it but I also
would like a way to build a mechanism to rapidly automatic the building of
HTML forms. A brute force way would be to build my own meta-XML data and
combine that with XSLT to generate HTML pages dynamically. But, before I go
off an build anything I wanted to ask around first to see if anyone was
doing the same thing, new of any open source tools, 3rd party tools, etc...

Any info is appreciated and thanks in advance for any help,

Will

Re: Building struts UIs

[Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>]

There's been an initial discussion of a related topic on DEV. Look for
"Struts Code Generators" at mail-archive.com. One question here is
whether we should hookup with Torque, which is reducing it's
dependancies on Turbine. 

Though this is more about generating pages and classes, rather than
producing them dynamically. 

So far, the focus has been using JSPs for the presentation layer. The
thing to watch for on a dynamic page, would be the links to the
ActionMappings and what not. But given what's been done with hooking up
Velocity to Struts, other presentation devices should be possible too.


Will Spies/Towers Perrin wrote:
> 
> I have a generic question. We use struts. Struts *really* doesn't help much
> with rapidly building UIs. I'm sure everyone here realizes this. I do not
> want to abandon struts, I've have had great experience with it but I also
> would like a way to build a mechanism to rapidly automatic the building of
> HTML forms. A brute force way would be to build my own meta-XML data and
> combine that with XSLT to generate HTML pages dynamically. But, before I go
> off an build anything I wanted to ask around first to see if anyone was
> doing the same thing, new of any open source tools, 3rd party tools, etc...
> 
> Any info is appreciated and thanks in advance for any help,
> 
> Will

Re: Building struts UIs

[Jean-Noel Ribette <jn...@mail.improve.fr>]

You might want to have a look at struts-layout 
(http://struts.application-servers.com) , a library my company is using for 
its struts development. It helps to build UIs very rapidly, especially UIs 
with forms and list of items. You still need to write JSPs but you don't 
need to write HTML code.

Jean-Noel

At 14:00 02/08/2001, you wrote:


>I have a generic question. We use struts. Struts *really* doesn't help much
>with rapidly building UIs. I'm sure everyone here realizes this. I do not
>want to abandon struts, I've have had great experience with it but I also
>would like a way to build a mechanism to rapidly automatic the building of
>HTML forms. A brute force way would be to build my own meta-XML data and
>combine that with XSLT to generate HTML pages dynamically. But, before I go
>off an build anything I wanted to ask around first to see if anyone was
>doing the same thing, new of any open source tools, 3rd party tools, etc...
>
>Any info is appreciated and thanks in advance for any help,
>
>Will