Does Struts uses Front Controller

[Schandha Ravi]

Hi All,

I was told and infact believed that Struts is based on MVC Framework or pattern. But I happened to see Front Controller and see lot of similarities between the way Struts handle the HTTP requests and the way Front Controller handles.

My question is does Struts uses Front controller also? My question is very lame and I apologize for this question.

[Bear Bibeault]

Yes.

[Schandha Ravi]

Thanks Bear. I actually got this doubt, after going through your Front Man

[Bear Bibeault]

Curious: why would that raise doubts? A front controller is frequently an important part of a good MVC architecture.

[Lok Manick]

Struts-config.xml acts as the front controller in the case of struts as all the requests must go thru it.
And the intercepting filter in struts are preprocessor.

Hope this helps