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I decided I'm just using Struts. Why? Because it has been blessed by Sun and it has an incredible amount of docs and support. There's like, what, 5 books, endless numbers of websites and constant work being done to improve it. I'm not Struts biggest fan, but I got it to work like I wanted it to with some tweaking so I'm sticking with it. I looked at developing my own simplified MVC, at JPublish, Cocoon and various Python systems, but decided in the end that Struts did what I needed it to do and for the most part got out of my way, so I went that way. There's a lot to be said for standards and Struts is becoming the MVC standard. (Don't jaw at me about WebWork. I looked at it and it just had *too many abstractions*. Bad.)

Another point: Because it has been blessed by Sun and it has an incredible amount of docs and support. Blessed by Sun? When was this? Last I knew, Sun had put Craig McClanahan on JSF and he was basically saying that you should stop using Struts in 6 months when JSF is finalized (this was over a month ago, so make that 4 1/2 months now). I don't deny that Struts has a lot of tool and documentation support, but some frameworks need more tool support because they're too complex :-)

Do whatever you like, since it's your app, after all, but these seemed like silly reasons to me.