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Depending on Spring, really necessary?
Hi Mark,
First of all many thanks for posting this superb introduction tutorial to Struts2 Themes.
I work for a company that does not easily allow introducing new technologies i.e. Spring. Then before starting a new battle to introduce it as a IoC container I decided to first tweak around your tutorial example code by removing all references to Spring framework, the result was successful:
- Noticed applicationContext.xml had no configuration => removed applicationContext.xml
- Removed all references to Spring from struts.properties
- Removed all references to Spring framework from web.xml i.e. ContextLoaderListener.
- Removed all Spring jars from the lib directory.
After wiping out Spring from the tutorial, it works just the same.
I have a zipped file with all modifications that behaves the same as the original code without any references to Spring whatsoever. If you want the zip please email me to bravegag@hotmail.com
Regards,
Giovanni