Following one comment on my previous post, I decided to get a look at WebWork. I’ve got up and running faster than with Struts with the help of the Eclipsework plug-in. This plug-in ties together WebWork, Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh.

SiteMesh is another component found at OpenSymphony, it looks like I’m using more and more framework from this project (latest one was Quartz the scheduler). I find SiteMesh quite interesting too. For the project I’m working on I’d like to be able to change the website look without the need to modify all my JSPs - ala Dreamweaver Templates. SiteMesh and its decorators should do the trick.

WebWork, SiteMesh, Eclipsework - my next step includes plugging a custom authentification component in place of the tomcat provided security constraint - I need to be able to specify 3 parameters during login: domain/user/password…