[givanse]

From what I gathered, Struts was very influential. Many people have it as its main reference. (Rails for example)

I don't know much about Spring. I know is very popular in the Java community, but I don't think it brought much to the MVC ecosystem.

It seems like it was built as a more developer friendly framework, but at its core it still is good old J2EE. Same patterns, MVC style etc. right?