Hi jason..
Nice point and i would show lot of interest and share what i went through with you.
I am jack of all and worked with microsoft technologies and sun both. when i joined this enterprise one of the largest organiztions. Our department is migrating towards
java.. and in that process they want us to learn every fundamentals and get certified.
I was been assigned a job of devoping application and told by management to use
struts though seemed illogical. as we could have done without that.
This gave me opportunity to learn struts though i realised
servlets and
jsp and learned both in detail so my learning went simultaneous.
I do agree what you trying to make out. The fact is>>
We cannot do justification to the struts frame work infact we cannot utilize it without knowing the basics of servlets and jsp.