If you are using templates, bundle the templates with the Actions.

Unlike Java Server Pages, FreeMarker and Velocity templates can be served from a JAR or loaded from the classpath. Rather than store Actions and templates in separate parts of the file system, consider maintaining both in the same Java package.

By storing together interrelated members, we spend less time navigating the file system, and we also increase cohesion within the application.

HTH, Ted.

Ted Husted is a software engineer and team mentor. His specialty is building agile web applications with open source products like Yahoo! User Interface Library, Struts, Spring, iBATIS, and MySQL, for either Java or Microsoft .NET, and helping others do the same.

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Copyright Ted Husted 2007. All rights reserved.

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