This post we are going to learn struts framework advantages and disadvantages.

Struts framework is an open source web application framework, and developed by Apache Software Foundation.

Advantages:

• To develop Java based enterprise web application using MVC architecture.
• Struts framework is an action based presentation framework.
• Action based POJO (Plain Old Java Object).
• Struts framework is thread safe.
• It supports SOAP and REST based web services.
• Spring dependency injection.
• Hibernate ORM framework.
• Struts support AJAX and JQuery.
• Struts is an MVC framework.
• Struts framework provides custom tag libraries.
• Centralized file based configuration (XML or Property files).
• Form beans automatically populate JavaBean request parameters.
• HTML tags provides a set of custom JSP tags.
• Struts provide form field validation, it can be used in server side and client side validation.

Disadvantages:

• Lack of documentation.
• Slow performance due to various function calls.
• More learning.