Chapter 1. Struts in Context
IN THIS CHAPTER
The promise of Struts is this: Develop better software faster. There are two pieces to that contract. One is speed of development. If you begin a project using Struts, you’ve got a great running start. Struts provides an easy-to-use development model that builds in many of the things you’d otherwise develop yourself. If you begin a project without Struts, you’re starting from scratch; it’ll take you weeks to catch up to where Struts enables you to start. Using Struts saves you time—a lot of time.
The second piece of the contract is that Struts helps you deliver better software. Struts was built by a group of some of the best and most knowledgeable developers around. Then it was tested by literally hundreds (maybe thousands) of developers all over the world. When you have that many pairs of eyes on the code, you tend to find bugs pretty fast. Needless to say, by now Struts is a very solid framework, and it implements some of the best practices in software development there are.