Why the offical 6.5.1 still supports the damn old 1.3?
I am looking for 2.1 support

Can a fix date be given for struts2 support?

rajsingh_57 wrote:

Can a fix date be given for struts2 support?

Welcome to the party ... it has been more the 2 years since that question was raised very first time and guess what .... nothing happened since then. There must be something quite unusual happening inside genuitec with regards to this public request - which I and hundreds if not thousands others didn't get. I guess they are just hoping people will stop asking because they get sick and tired of waiting. I really failed to understand what they thinking. Every single bank, insurance house and government place in this city is using struts - sure old one but many have already started using S2 and more would follow - so I would see that as an opportunity - but looks like these folks decided to give us developers lesson that S2 is BAD and we should not be using it. Anyway I am having way too much fun...so good luck in waiting for response ...get good comfortable chair and lotta popcorn - you might be here for a while.

rajsingh_57,

Unfortunately no firm date can be given yet, I would guestimate that it will likely come in our 7.5 release, but am pushing for it earlier. There is quite a bit of work going into 7.0M2 and final GA that will include new features in MyEclipse across the board and the product management team pushed Struts2 support behind some high priority items we have been working on for a while and need to get done and in the product.

Struts2 support *will* come, the demand is growing for it, and we want to make sure address that user need. But as I've mentioned in other threads, supporting newer frameworks is nothing like what it used to be, it's quite a bit more complex and the R&D/extension cycles are much longer now, so all we can ask for is patience.

Ultimately we just want you guys productive, even if that's not with us right now. We will try and win your business back down the road if you choose to work with another tool though, so be warned ;)

Hey Riyad - I think that there is a way to do it using Maven, right? For instance, I was able to add the .jars as part of my build path for doing a struts web project. THe only question is this: is it possible to copy those .jars that are in my repo to my project's WEB-INF/lib directory? I am still somewhat of a newbie with Maven.....

Mike,

Oh absolutely, you can develop Struts 2 apps with MyEclipse now by adding the Struts2 libs like you said as a Maven dependency, the MyEclipse deployer should honor those and deploy them with your project when you do a deployment to your app server.

It's just the Struts2-specific tooling that I think people are asking about, normal JSP/Taglib/Class/Action/Form development is still all going to work just fine now.

Riyad:
you said in your previous posting this:

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the MyEclipse deployer should honor those and deploy them with your project when you do a deployment to your app server.

That is the one issue I had with deploying my Struts2 project. When I looked in the deploy folder under WEB-INF/lib it was empty. So, I am not sure if there is some sort of Maven goal I need to do but I am reading up on that. If you have a quick answer for me, that would help. Thanks

Are you using MyEclipse 6.5 and using the built-in Maven4MyEclipse functionality? Do you have a "Maven Dependencies" node in your project tree, and if you expand it, you see your libs there?

no, I am using ME 7.0M1

Mike,

If it's a Maven4MyEclipse-enabled project you should have a Maven Dependencies node off the root of your project that shows all your POM dependencies, without that MyEclipse won't understand it's a Maven project or how to deploy it, you may need to use mvn:package and deploy ti yourself.

it seems not support Structs 2 yet. What a pity~~

So any date when MyEclipse will have struts2 support?

Well, if it helps if i add my interest, too?

I think reason why we have to wait for Struts 2 is that management decided to wait for Struts 3 and come up with huge surprise...so please everyone stop asking for S2 and wait....I guess.....another 4-5 years!......personally I cannot wait for S3 on myClipse </sarcasm>

All,

I know some of you might be getting a bit frustrated, but this feedback is actually very helpful to us. We do our best to prioritize the features that our user community requests the most. For example, in MyEclipse 7.5 we added a profiler because that was the most requested feature in our last poll, here: http://www.myeclipseide.com/Poll-10.html

As you can see, Struts 2 did very well in that poll as well so I'd encourage anyone reading this thread to add their vote to that poll as well. So, as you can see, Struts 2 is already on the "short" list based on these results (and conversations with the product mgmt team). What I'd like to do is work with y'all to get the poll to clearly show Struts 2 should be "next".

In addition, it also helps if we have some specific objectives as to what "Struts 2" support really means to y'all, so any details on what you'd like to see (feature "desirements") would be great.

For example:
1) Just the ability to add "Struts 2" capaibiliites (and libraries) to a project?
2) The same tools we have for Struts 1.3, but with full support for Struts 2.1? (ie. visual editing, etc?)
3) Some additional ideas or examples of what you'd like?

The more concrete we can be on the "Struts 2" feature request, the more we an ensure that when it does get queued up and delivered that it is exactly what y'all want.