Introduction
Since Stripes was released in September 2005 people have been saying a lot of nice things about it. This page pulls together some quotes from people who have found Stripes one way or another and, unsolicited, provided some great feedback.
Quotes
Stripes is an advanced but extremely intuitive framework. It provides far more out of the box functionality than many other frameworks that have been around for years and has a terrific maturity to it already. It uses JDK 1.5 features to make it easy and simple to understand and develop against, while creating the minimal amount of code. Those frustrated with having to check the struts documentation every few minutes will be pleasantly surprised by Stripes. The documentation is also superb, clearly besting any other open source web framework's documentation. Its simple, compact and written with the user in mind.
Greg Hinkle, Lead Developer MC4J (November 22nd in a public review
on oszone.org)
Someone mentioned Stripes at the last meeting of the Omaha Java Users Group, and after poking around today, I just wanted to say it looks awesome ... I just wanted to say kudos for the first web framework in a very long time that made me say "wow"
-Stephen Haberman (November 17th in email)
First, I like the simplicity. I've used Struts, and nearly got into Spring but thought better of it. The Struts apps I've looked at (or worked on) seem to revel in complexity. Sooner or later, one is always editing (and re-editing) stuts-config.xml. With Stripes, no big honking config files... in fact, part of me is scratching my head wondering where the complexity is... it can't be this simple and sensible, can it? (But it is...).
-Andrew Jaquith, Senior Analyst at the Yankee Group (November 9th 2005, in email)
Anyway, thanks for such a great piece of work. I really enjoy stripes and am currently porting our struts stuff over to it. I don't have a lot of time, but if I can be of some help, feel free to ask.
-Nic Holbrook (November 4th 2005, in email)
All in all I highly recommend Stripes framework. It solves only half of the puzzle which RoR solves fully. However it does it very well, even better than RoR.
-Angsuman Chakraborty (October 25th 2005, in a blog entry)
I spent a few hours with Stripes yesterday and I was super easy to pick up and to be productive using it. I'm putting together a sample application using Stripes/Spring/EJB 3.0-Hibernate EntityManager and Stripes has been a pleasure to work with.
-Thomas Risberg, Spring Committer (October 16th 2005 in a blog comment)
As an aside, this looks like a great Java web framework (at last). I've been involved with Java in one way or another for the last 6 years or so and I've never approved of its web capabilities until now.
-Sean Blezard (September 20th 2005, on the Stripes Users email list)
