Welcome to Struts

Welcome to Struts! The goal of this project is to provide an open source framework for building Java web applications.

The core of the Struts framework is a flexible control layer based on standard technologies like Java Servlets, JavaBeans, ResourceBundles, and XML, as well as various Jakarta Commons packages. Struts encourages application architectures based on the Model 2 approach, a variation of the classic Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm.

Struts provides its own Controller component and integrates with other technologies to provide the Model and the View. For the Model, Struts can interact with standard data access technologies, like JDBC and EJB, as well as most any third-party packages, like Hibernate, iBATIS, or Object Relational Bridge. For the View, Struts works well with JavaServer Pages, including JSTL and JSF, as well as Velocity Templates, XSLT, and other presentation systems.

The Struts framework provides the invisible underpinnings every professional web application needs to survive. Struts helps you create an extensible development environment for your application, based on published standards and proven design patterns.

Struts is a project of the The Apache Software Foundation. The official Struts home page is at http://struts.apache.org/.

Struts is a volunteer project and all support for the framework is provided by unpaid volunteers. This documentation bundle and the mailing lists are the primary ways to learn how to use Struts. The next few pages are devoted to helping you understand what resources are available to you. Since Struts is a volunteer project, and our resources are limited, it is important that we first help you help yourself.