Another example found in 3 minutes JRoller browsing: Are Struct's Actions and JSF Backing Beans: View or Controller? The author wonders whether the Struts Actions are Controllers or Views. Of course it's neither, given that Struts is not MVC, and has never been. So basically, we have a developper trying to understand how an object following the Command design-pattern behind a Web Request Broker fits into a paradigm created to solve the problem of high-interactivity with a large set of data when the web did not exist. The simple result of this is: a net time loss.