Struts Royally Sucks

I have heard that 100s of times, and I have vague memories of myself struggling, some 7 years ago, against Struts quirks and all those HORRIBLE tag libraries (writing code in XML? Noooooo way.).

I have even hoped to be able to mock Struts, instead of having to deploy in container,
using this http://strutstestcase.sourceforge.net/ framework...

I use MockStrutsTestCase in a very basic setup and I get this:


java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: getPathTranslated operation is not supported!
at servletunit.HttpServletRequestSimulator.getPathTranslated(HttpServletRequestSimulator.java:635)


no matter what I try...

So I am switching to MockRunner which so far seems to work.

There are also plugins for JUnit and Maven:
http://struts.apache.org/2.2.1/docs/struts-2-junit-plugin-tutorial.html
http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/testng-plugin.html


This framework is THE BLACK WIDOW MAKER of Front End Developers.


My advice: just throw Struts in the toilet and flush, you will immediately feel an intense relief. Then implement your Front End in Spring MVC or Vaadin.

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