Jennifer Moran wrote:and doesn't look that great
As said, Struts takes over the controller part of the MVC so that you end up with beans and action classes and taglibs which can interact with them. If you don't use Struts, you have to write a page controller yourself (a Servlet) or a bunch of Servlets, maybe one for each page. You also have to write more "helper" classes yourself and you also have to write a lot more with JSTL/EL. Oh and you also have to write a validation and conversion framework yourself.Jennifer Moran wrote:So I guess my question is that previous post said it's a bit of a pain to do it this way, is there an easier way??? Because really the struts tags, JSTL or EL are all the same basic principle right?? Just different syntax. So how can objects/data be passed from server to client for presentation if not in the form of a bean??