I started developing one Blog Website based on Hibernate and Struts. I was wondering how to maintain the structure of the directory and files. That is, the presentation, hibernate DB access layers, controllers and business layers. Any suggestion?
Regards Swar
I don't think there is a single answer to this question but here is mine.
For a simple project without strong modularity requirements, I would use a single project.
For the project layout itself, I follow the Maven standard directory layout. For a webapp, this typically means something like this:
. └── src ├── main │ ├── java - Application/Library sources │ ├── resources - Application/Library resources │ └── webapp - Web application sources │ └── WEB-INF └── test ├── java - Test sources └── resources - Test resources
And I would use java packaging naming conventions to organize classes from the various layers:
com.acme.<app>.<module>.web.action for struts actionscom.acme.<app>.<module>.web.forms : for struts form beanscom.acme.<app>.<module>.service : for business services interfaces and implementations com.acme.<app>.<module>.bo : for the business objectscom.acme.<app>.<module>.dao : for DAO interfacescom.acme.<app>.<module>.dao.hib : for Hibernate implementations of the DAOsBut for a small application, I would just skip the functional <module> subdivision.