how to setup a web app with model view controller on CentOS beside using Tomcat server

Question

Hi there, I'm working on a project that the customer specifically want java to be the back end engine. My team wants to see if there is a good way of implementing it without having to deal with struts (they all hate tomcat & struct setup for some reason). So given that I have total control over a CentOS server running apache, is there a good way of setting up an environment where the html could call java code and java code could control the view on the html page?

Answer 1

You should have a Servlet Container in this case. Tomcat is your best bet, but you can go for Resin or Jetty, I suppose.

You can avoid Struts, and have a look to some other MVC framework i.e. Wicket, Stripes, Play etc. Spring MVC is another powerful and great framework, in case you want to use Spring as an IoC as well. IMO, it will pay to adapt Spring.

By the way, Struts 2 is not that bloated like Classic Struts, and doesn't require that much of XML configurations. A lot of things can be done using annotation. But I still suggest to check Spring with Spring MVC/Stripes/Wicket/Struts2.