Web applications differ from conventional websites in that web applications can create a dynamic response. Many websites deliver only static pages. A web application can interact with databases and business logic engines to customize a response.
Web applications based on JavaServer Pages sometimes commingle database code, page design code, and control flow code. In practice, we find that unless these concerns are separated, larger applications become difficult to maintain.
One way to separate concerns in a software application is to use a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. The Model represents the business or database code, the View represents the page design code, and the Controller represents the navigational code. The Struts framework is designed to help developers create web applications that utilize a MVC architecture.
The framework provides three key components:
· A "request" handler provided by the application developer that is mapped to a standard URI.
· A "response" handler that transfers control to another resource which completes the response.
· A tag library that helps developers create interactive form-based applications with server pages.
The framework's architecture and tags are buzzword compliant. Struts works well with conventional REST applications and with nouveau technologies like SOAP and AJAX.
Give Apache Struts a try to fully assess its capabilities!

What's New in This Release:
Internal Changes:
· Merged security fix from version 2.3.14.1, 2.3.14.2 and 2.3.14.3
· Resolved problem with memory leak in ContainerHolder
· Resolved bug related to struts.convention.action.includeJars, see WW-4038
· Improved OSGi support to allow work in Glassfish 3, see WW-3958
· Added support to create cookies from whitin an action WW-4037
· New interface - ValidationAware - was added to allow notify actions when there are action/field errors WW-4071
Sub-task:
· [WW-3623]: ui tags will have improperly generated id attributes when the tag does not have a name specified and is inside a form
Bug:
· [WW-3277]: text tag does not work properly inside a tag
· [WW-3569]: s:radio does not select the right option on reading the value
· [WW-3676]: javatemplates: no radiobutton is selected if property 'name' is not of type integer or string (e.g. short)
· [WW-3689]: NullPointerException coming from Settings / LegacyPropertiesConfigurationProvider (thread-safety issue?)
· [WW-3752]: Charset...