Spring Your Struts Apps Ahead: The Struts-to-Spring Migration

Spring Your Struts Apps Ahead: The Struts-to-Spring Migration: "Spring Your Struts Apps Ahead: The Struts-to-Spring Migration
Find out what it takes to migrate Struts applications to Spring MVC. You'll learn not only how to transform Struts applications into Spring MVC applications, but also the logical mapping between the two frameworks and how key Struts concepts relate to Spring MVC concepts.

by Edmon Begoli September 8, 2005

Some suggest that the Struts framework has reached the point where its innovation and adoption will start declining. In fact, the Craig McClanahan, chief architect and author of Struts, has left the project for good, and he is actively urging current Struts users to migrate to newer Web frameworks.

Meanwhile, in the J2EE Web space, Spring MVC has gained steady adoption and Java developer attention. The highly popular Spring framework (with Spring MVC as its core component) is nicely designed, productive, and innovative, so many Struts users undoubtedly will investigate Spring MVC as a replacement framework for Struts."