Originally posted by John King:
Thanks Jason.
What makes Struts so popular? The taglibs?
Easy to use? or open source and free? How stable
is it?
Yes to all of the above.
Writing a web application using MVC is such a common task, that often people would write their own framework. Struts provides a robust framework for you, no need to spend your time rolling your own, letting you concentrate on the task at hand.
I haven't used the beta (lots of people have though), but their stable release is, well, stable. No problems that I've heard about or experienced.