I've been trying to get started using Struts for my JSP/Servlet work. I've been farting with this for a week and I still find it incredibly difficult to actually do things with it. It is very ticky about how you configure it, and the slightest deviation will cause it to silently not work right. Well, not quite silently but without actually telling you what the real problem is (like that your configuration options must be specified in a certain order or it won't work.) Employers who offer jobs that I like are more and more asking for this, and having read up on it theoretically it sounds very cool and good. However, this getting started is a huge and frustrating pain in the ass. I decided to stop farting with my project that woun't load and work through a tutorial I found. It all worked until I got to step 2, using the bean:message tag to move the text to resource bundles. Although I followed every step exactly, I get the org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Cannot find message resources under key org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE when I try to load the page. I'm sure I'm missing something simple and once I learn it I'll know it forever but it is really pissing me off right about now. L link. I added them to my Zoe aggregator, what the hell.