Struts

Most hated web-service development framework ... http://struts.apache.org.

• /FirstImpression
• People are waking up ... MVC is web poison BillDeHOra? : http://www.dehora.net/journal/2004/08/302_borked_framework.html
• "best practices" : http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2004/jw-0913-struts.html

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Missed this from early 2008 ( http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.html) :

I've deleted several thousand words about the evolution of Apache Struts and WebWork?, an example framework I chose to illustrate my point. Rather than waste a bunch of time with it, I'll just give you a quote from one of the Struts developers in "The Evolution of Struts 2":

...the Struts 1 code base didn’t lend itself to drastic improvements, and its feature set was rather limited, articularly lacking in features such as Ajax, rapid development, and extensibility."

Struts 2 was thrown away for WebWork?, which was in the process of throwing away version 1 (for similar reasons) in favor of version 2 (which has all the same problems).