Life before struts, jsf

Question

Hello,
I wanted to start studying struts but before actually diving into it, I also wanted to know how life was before struts, jsf etc.
What I learnt:
1. The registration form is a simple html form with its action as "register.html"
2. The controller servlet creates a hashmap of all actions as keys and handlers as values. register.html has a corrosponding RegistrationHandler
3. RegistrationHandler provides with the view.
4. The view is a jsp page with a useBean that populates the bean. The bean class has a method that stores the data into database which is called from the view.
So,
View is the jsp page
Controller is the Servlet
Model is the bean
I just wanted to know whether I am right with MVC or not. If right, where does struts, jsf fit in and where do they provide the flexibility.
regards,
vijay.

Answer 1

The way to go forward is to use JSF both for the view and the controller layer.
Mixing the two usually doesn't produce good results.
The JSF controller layer is more advanced than the old Struts framework and is the standard in JEE 5.0 - so you should definetly start looking into developing new applications with this framework.