At a high level, how does struts2 work? I'm coming from a mvc background

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At a high level, how does struts2 work? I\'m coming from a mvc background

Looking at a sample project, I see allot of these ___action type classes.

Is it jus

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The way I always understood it is that actions are your controllers. You hit a url, you map it to an action, your action controls what business logic happens, like "load domain object" or "just go to jsp".

The jsps are your views. I think if you are building a RIA where actions are handling xhrs and returning json, The V component of MVC is outside the framework -- its your extjs or whatever you are using for presentation.

Struts has always seemed like really a VC framework, because you don't define your model with struts. You do that yourself. Although you use the model in struts, when you convert your model to whatever your presentation needs.