Craig (who notes that it took Struts nearly three years to get a wide breadth of tools support)
Though, the Struts tool explosion coincided with the more general Java tool explosion. If we have GUIs like today's Eclipse and IntelliJ three years ago, we would have seen Struts PlugIns right away. The GUI support for Web applications is a thousand-fold better now than it was three years ago, and the Struts support rode the wave.
It would also be fair to say that Struts did much to create the buzz around JSF. If the JSF came out three years ago, tools support would have been a much tougher sell, not to mention the concept of taglibs as UI components. Remember how long it was before we saw much vendor support for JSP 1.2. Times have changed.
Meanwhile, as James Holmes mentioned, it's nice to see that some things don't change: open source is still leading the way, with offerings like FacesConsole and Struts-Faces, not to mention MyFaces on SourceForge. (Pity about the license.)
Also as mentioned elsewhere, initiatives like JSF don't appear out of thin air, they are built on a path paved by open source. And, the road winds ever on ...
-Ted.
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