Date: Sep. 19, 2001
Link: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/09/11/jsp_servlets.html
Source Author or Organization: Sue Spielman, ONJava.com

This article is the first installment of a two part tutorial introducing the Apache Software Foundation's Jakarta Struts Framework. The tutorial assumes some familiarity with XML, servlets, JSP and custom tag libraries.

Struts is an open source framework encouraging the use of MVC in an Apache Tomcat Server/Java Server Page (JSP) environment. The Model View Controller (MVC, or Model 2) design pattern is a methodology for separating business logic from presentation that is used to organize and speed development of dynamic, data-driven Web applications. This article walks the user through applying the MVC model/view/controller paradigm and configuring the environment, and ends with a discussion of benefits and drawbacks encountered by the author in real world usage.