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The road ahead for Struts

A proposal for the plans of Struts 2.x has been published here.
This looks really good. One of the most important changes will probably be better testability and the state management features. As noted in the proposal this will probably require some serious investigation, but supporting dialog sequences in multiple windows for each user will be a very welcome feature. The Struts flow plugin might provide some of these features today.

I know I have criticized some of the features of Struts on this blog, but it really is an excellent tool. And it holds up remarkably well considering the long (in internet time) timespan since it’s inception.

Via The ServerSide.

Update: Matt Raible chips in on his views to here. He has a lot of experience with web development and I always value his opinions.

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Spille on Inversion of Control Containers

Mike Spille has some excellent indepth articles on Inversion of Control and some concrete implementations of them. Start out here and read the followup here.

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Road to Agile webinars

Roy Osherove pointed to these webinars from Rally Software on the road to agile development. If you’re a bit new to agile development it’s great value. They’re a bit long (running at an hour), but I’ve watched the first and I’ll be watching the rest later on.