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Linux Magazine has a really nice Struts intro article. It walks through what struts is, what the model 2 design pattern is (MVC), and provides complete examples. Its good intro stuff.

Personally I havent used struts because I have my own JSP bean library that I think is better than or at least equivalent to custom tags (because its not a custom tag but it accomplishes the same thing and does not put logic in a JSP page by using beans, the JSP developer does have to know how to use beans in JSP and how to call methods, but thats not much different than having to know the custom tags). However, I think I better start using it and learning it because I have seen it mentioned in many job postings in my area. Get to know struts, employers are looking for that knowledge.    The Jakarta Struts Framework: Linux Magazine