whatis strut ?

[Alvin chew]

hi, expert here , what is strut and why we want to use it ? is there any site or free book for strut ? tq

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Here is an article about struts in the JavaRanch Journal written by our own sheriff Thomas Paul.
[ January 15, 2004: Message edited by: Marilyn de Queiroz ]

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Struts is a framework for building and deploying web applications. For general informaion on Struts, you might want to take a look at the Struts project web site.
Moving this to the Struts and Other Frameworks forum...

[Rick Hightower]

http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/

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 part of the Apache Jakarta Project, sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation. The official Struts home page is at http://jakarta.apache.org/struts.
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.