Struts annoyance

I am getting annoyed over the Struts homework. Nothing works in the first try, every thing I do follows a cycle of attempt, fail, Internet search, attempt, fail again, and so on. There are too many nitty-gritty details that can break the darn thing, and there aren't many (if any) tutorials on the more advanced combinations of API classes offered. I am sure once I overcome all these problems Struts will become easier, but I can't help but be ticked off. How I wish the Struts/Java community provides the kind of documentations that Microsoft/MSDN offers.

My next homework will be to convert the application to JSF. Unfortunately there is supposedly less documentation for JSF since it's even newer than Struts.