struts flow

Struts is a open source implementation of MVC design pattern to develop large scale web applications.Struts framework makes it easier to design realible,scalable web applications in java.Struts is not only thread safe but also thread dependent.It instantiates each action once and allows others to be threaded through the original object.Struts reduces the for redundant jsp's.ActionForm stratagy reduces the need of sub class hierarchy.

Struts is a light weight package.It consists of 5 core packages and 5 tag lig directories.


whenever client send request first it goes to CONTROLLER part(ActionServlet)it reads the request data& decides about which action should be performed to process the client request after that it forwards to the appropriate action class(MODEL part)where the functionality code(bussiness logic) will be there, from this MODEL part the control goes back to CONTROLLER part from here the appropriate jsp pages(VIEW part) can be picked up for presenthing(displaying) the result on the clients browser.