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Struts is an open source, Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework developed by The Apache Software Foundation as part of its Jakarta project.

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What you'll learn

Struts is an open source, Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework developed by The Apache Software Foundation as part of its Jakarta project. Struts is built on top of JSP, Servlets, and custom tag libraries. After reading the first J2EE Blueprints from Sun with their explanation of MVC and how to accomplish it with custom tags, Servlets, and JSP, one can clearly see that Struts is a manifestation of Sun's J2EE MVC vision. Struts addresses many major issues in using vanilla Servlets/JSP to build web systems. It solves the problem of controller complexity by removing the workflow logic from the Servlets, and directing workflow in an XML configuration file. Struts improves on the limited form support in JSP by adding numerous capabilities to form processing including easy validation, easy error display, and the refilling of form input on form retries from a users previous entries. It minimizes the complexity of JSP pages, by integrating with the JSTL tag library, and additionally supplying a very extensive and flexible set of custom tag libraries for many of the standard operations needed in JSP pages. This course will get you up to speed with Struts in a very short time. It includes all the important concepts, and hands on labs that will have you building working Struts applications in no time flat. In addition, this course covers how to extend the Struts framework to fit your unique needs

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript and practical Java and Servlet/JSP programming experience.

Course Outline

Getting started with Struts

Jakarta Struts Project

MVC and Struts

Review Servlets, JSP and Web Applications

Struts Architecture

Your first Struts Application

Configuring Struts applications

Defining views – the input JSP

Defining ActionForms (FormBeans)

Defining Actions

Mapping the Model to the View

Review of Custom Tags

Introduction to JSTL (JSP Standard Template Library)

Using the Struts HTML Tags, Struts Bean Tags and Struts Logic Tags

Pre-populating forms from FormBeans

Errors and Debugging Struts Applications

Error Handling

Action Error and ActionErrors

ActionForm validate() method

Error Management in Action.execute()

Error display in JSP pages: <html:errors> tag

Writing all errors to JSP page

Writing selected errors to JSP page

Handling exceptions

Declarative Exception Handling

Logging – A critical tool

Overview of logging

Simple Servlet Logging

Jakarta Commons Logging

Using Commons Logging

Log Message Levels

Apache log4j

Overview, Loggers, Appenders, Layouts, Using log4j

Dynamic Forms and the Validator Framework

Dynamic Forms

Issues with Regular Forms

Overview of Dynamic Forms

Configuring Dynamic Forms - The DynaActionForm and Form Properties

Using the Dynamic Form in the Action

The Validator Framework - Overview

Validation Rules

Adding Errors to the Resource Bundle

Using Validators with Dynamic and Static Forms

Important Predefined Validators : Email, mask, range, length, date and credit card validation

Using the Mask Rule

Working with the Tiles Custom Library

Issues with Managing JSP Complexity

View Reuse

The Tiles Framework

Defining Layouts for View Reuse

Using tiles:get, tiles:put, tiles:getAsString and tiles:insert

Tiles Definitions

JSP Definitions – Uses, Shortcomings

Using Definitions

XML Definitions

The Tiles Plugin

Tiles Controllers

Additional Capabilities

Forward and Include Actions

Setup Actions

DispatchAction

Managing Complexity

Multiple struts config files

Multiple resource bundles

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