Jakarta Struts Live contains thorough coverage of both the Struts MVC architecture and building each of the Struts components of this architecture.
http: / / www.theserverside.com / tt / books / sourcebeat / JakartaStrutsLive / index.tss
Introduce Struts from 5,280 ft
Introduce the Struts 1.1 features
Highlight the steps for developing a Struts application
Subliminallyemphasize the importance and benefit of using a framework like Struts
http: / / www.ajug.org / meetings / download / struts.pdf
This paper explains how to use the Java Authentication and Authorization API (JAAS). It plugs JAAS into the Struts framework. Though this paper focuses on Struts, and in particular the example application distributed with Struts, the lessons learned should be applicable to any MVC web framework.
http: / / www.mooreds.com / jaas.html