Finally somebody took the selfcontained configuration of a powerful open source component and built a friendly editor for it…
Exadel Struts Studio is a visual building tool for the Jakarta Struts Framework, the most used J2EE/Web MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework. Struts Studio is designed for the rapid development of Web applications. Our unique visual "drag-and-connect" approach to this task is essential for the rapid development and re-engineering of Web applications with minimal coding.
They have the community edition 4.7 for download…
Key Features of Struts Studio according to vendor homepage:
- Supports both Struts 1.1 (latest version) and Struts 1.0
- Allows viewing and editing Struts configuration files using GUI forms and tree representations
- Allows viewing and editing Struts configuration files using Web Flow, a tool for the visual development of Web applications using a drag-and-connect metaphor
- Includes a built-in JSP editor with syntax highlighting, Java prompting, and two-way coordination with Web Flow
- Includes a "one-click" library of Struts-specific tags in the built-in JSP editor
- Allows using built-in or external third party tools to edit project components
- Allows editing in Web Flow before finishing JSP coding
- Integrates with Tomcat Servlet engines for easy preview and running of Struts applications
- Integrates with Ant for easy project control
- Allows the "adoption" of pre-existing Struts projects into Exadel Struts Studio with intelligent auto-placement of the components in Web Flow and without any modifications required for the existing code
- Includes a Code Wizard that automatically creates stub code for Action, FormBean, Forward, and Exception classes
- Includes standard skeleton templates for new projects
- Supports the XP-enabled development paradigm with an "Absolutely Developer Friendly" approach (even comments in the Struts configuration XML file preserved)
- Allows global undo/redo function
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Struts Studio - Eclipse plugin for Struts modelling
jDeveloper 10g has a pretty good modeller for Struts.
Struts Studio - Eclipse plugin for Struts modelling
useful stuff .. thx was lookin' for somethin' like this ...