Using the Struts Open-Source Framework

All this discussion of MVC, JSPs, and custom tag libraries would not be complete without at least mentioning one of the most popular open-source MVC frameworks going. Struts is an open-source framework that can be used to build Web applications with Java servlets and JSP pages. It is available for free download at

http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/index.html

The Struts architecture is based on the MVC design paradigm discussed earlier. The Jakarta Project has recently released the 1.0 version of the framework.

The framework includes several custom tag libraries for handling such things as locale resource bundles used for multiple language support, logic tags for doing such things as iterating through a collection ...

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