Finally somebody took the selfcontained configuration of a powerful open source component and built a friendly editor for it…

Exadel Struts Studio is a visual building tool for the Jakarta Struts Framework, the most used J2EE/Web MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework. Struts Studio is designed for the rapid development of Web applications. Our unique visual "drag-and-connect" approach to this task is essential for the rapid development and re-engineering of Web applications with minimal coding.

They have the community edition 4.7 for download…

Key Features of Struts Studio according to vendor homepage:

• Supports both Struts 1.1 (latest version) and Struts 1.0
• Allows viewing and editing Struts configuration files using GUI forms and tree representations
• Allows viewing and editing Struts configuration files using Web Flow, a tool for the visual development of Web applications using a drag-and-connect metaphor
• Includes a built-in JSP editor with syntax highlighting, Java prompting, and two-way coordination with Web Flow
• Includes a "one-click" library of Struts-specific tags in the built-in JSP editor
• Allows using built-in or external third party tools to edit project components
• Allows editing in Web Flow before finishing JSP coding
• Integrates with Tomcat Servlet engines for easy preview and running of Struts applications
• Integrates with Ant for easy project control
• Allows the "adoption" of pre-existing Struts projects into Exadel Struts Studio with intelligent auto-placement of the components in Web Flow and without any modifications required for the existing code
• Includes a Code Wizard that automatically creates stub code for Action, FormBean, Forward, and Exception classes
• Includes standard skeleton templates for new projects
• Supports the XP-enabled development paradigm with an "Absolutely Developer Friendly" approach (even comments in the Struts configuration XML file preserved)
• Allows global undo/redo function