New version of Jakarta Struts seem to have many time-saving and rapid development features for developers. Check out this oreilly article at http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/30/jakarta.html?page=1
I'm still new to zope and learning from the online book. What are your comments on these 2 framework/platform? Anyone used both before?
Struts is a whole different animal from zope. Aside from the obvious differences (python versus java), Struts is a framework and tag library, whereas Zope is a programming framework, a fairly extensive class library, two different tag libraries (DTML and TAL/TALES), an application server, and a web server. With struts, you still have to add tomcat or WebLogic before you can develop or deploy. One thing that Zope and struts have in common is the concept of separating presentation from logic. In the days of DTML, Zope could not claim this, but with page templates Zope is actually better than struts in this regard. Struts uses a "Model Controller View" architecture. You could use a similar design in Zope. I try to do so when I develop in Zope by using page templates as the view, python scripts as the controller, and a files system product as the model containing the business logic. We recently deployed a very large-scale app on WebLogic using struts. My only complaint is that you end up creating a lot of forms and actions that seem redundant. I think Zope the application server could learn a lot from WebLogic (true clustering, failover, remote node management, remote application deployment, etc), but I don't know that Zope the development platform has that much to learn from struts.