Struts 1.x vs Struts 2.x

Question

I have reviewed a few Struts 1 vs 2 questions on SO but none seem to answer the question in the perspective that I am looking at it with.

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Answer 1

I'd think instead of asking "Stick with Struts1 or move to Struts2?" you'd better ask "Stick with Struts1 or move to a modern action based MVC web framework?". Why to move ? Because Struts1 is old and (frankly) sucks. Why not to move? Because we must learn a new framework. Granted, you know your resources, you must do the evaluation. But bear in mind that modern action based frameworks (Struts2, SpringMVC, Stripes) are quite easy to learn, and more so if your teams already knows Struts1.

Myself, I've have migrated from Struts to Struts2 and now I wouldn't like to return to Struts1 programming (those clumsy ActionForms!). I think Struts2 is much better. But one must also consider that Struts2 has also its weak points, the project does not seem very healty and the community does not seem very active. The jump from Struts1 to Struts2 is not big, but is not as small as a version change ("Struts2" is a misnomer), and it is probably not smaller that the jump to SpringMVC, so I'd suggest to consider it (or Stripes).