TheServerSide.com reports that Strecks 1.0 has released. What is Strecks? Well, if you’re still using Struts 1.2.x, you may want this open source lightweight extention library which will extend Struts 1.2.x into a more lightweight framework. How?

“Making heavy use of Java 5 annotations, Strecks adds a number of modern features to Struts-based applications, including POJO actions, dependency injection, declarative validation and data binding, interceptors, pluggable views, as well as seamless Spring integration. It is also highly extensible and amenable to test driven development.”

This may be quite useful alternative rather than swiching to an entirely new Web framework environment. Strecks can serve as the lightweight bridge until Struts 2 or Struts Action Framework 2 is more ready as well.