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Programming Jakarta Struts, 2nd Edition

Table of Contents

Copyright

Preface

Organization

Conventions Used in This Book

Using Code Examples

Comments and Questions

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 A Brief History of the Web

1.2 What Are Java Servlets?

1.3 JavaServer Pages

1.4 JSP Model 1 and Model 2 Architectures

1.5 Why Is Model-View-Controller So Important?

1.6 What Is a Framework?

1.7 Alternatives to Struts

Chapter 2. Inside the Web Tier

2.1 An Architecture Overview

2.2 The HTTP Request/Response Phase

2.3 Struts and Scope

2.4 Using URL Parameters

2.4 Using URL Parameters

2.5 Forward Versus Redirect

Chapter 3. Overview of the Struts Framework

3.1 A Banking Account Example

3.2 Looking at the Big Picture

3.3 Struts Controller Components

3.4 Struts Model Components

3.5 Struts View Components

3.6 Multiple Application Support

3.7 Summary

Chapter 4. Configuring Struts Applications

4.1 The Storefront Application

4.2 What Is a Web Application?

4.3 The Web Application Directory Structure

4.4 The Web Application Deployment Descriptor

4.5 Configuring the web.xml File for Struts

4.6 The Struts Configuration File

4.7 The Digester Component

4.8 The Struts Console Tool

4.9 Reloading the Configuration Files

Chapter 5. Struts Controller Components

5.1 The Controller Mechanism

5.2 The Utilities Classes

Chapter 6. Struts Model Components

6.1 The

6.2 What Is a Business Object?

6.3 Persistence

6.4 What Does Struts Offer for the Model?

Chapter 7. Struts View Components

7.1 What Is a View?

7.2 What Are ActionForms?

7.3 Using ActionErrors

7.4 Performing Presentation Validation

7.5 Using the DynaActionForm Class

7.6 Looking Ahead to JavaServer Faces

Chapter 8. JSP Custom Tag Libraries

8.1 Custom Tags Overview

8.2 Tag Libraries Included with Struts

8.3 Using JavaBeans with Struts Tags

8.4 Struts HTML Tags

8.5 Logic Tags

8.6 Bean Tags

8.7 Nested Tags

8.8 Other Useful Tag Libraries

8.9 The JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

Chapter 9. Extending the Struts Framework

9.1 What Are Extension Points?

9.2 General Extension Points

9.3 Controller Extension Points

9.4 Extending View Components

9.5 Downsides to Extending the Framework

Chapter 10. Exception Handling

10.1 Java Exception Handling

10.2 Performance Impact of Exception Handling

10.3 System Versus Application Exceptions

10.4 Using Chained Exceptions

10.5 Exception Handling Provided by Struts

10.6 Tying Up the Loose Ends

10.7 Conclusion

Chapter 11. The Validator Framework

11.1 The Need for a Validation Framework

11.2 Installing and Configuring the Validator

11.3 Using an ActionForm with the Validator

11.4 Creating Your Own Validation Rules

11.5 The Validator and JSP Custom Tags

11.6 Internationalizing the Validation

11.7 Using the Validator Outside of Struts

Chapter 12. Internationalization and Struts

12.1 What Is Internationalization?

12.2 Support for I18N in Java

12.3 Internationalizing Your Struts Applications

12.4 Exception Handling and Internationalization

Chapter 13. Struts and Enterprise JavaBeans

13.1 Implementing the Storefront Service Using EJB

13.2 Interfacing Struts to EJB

13.3 Conclusion

Chapter 14. Using Tiles

14.1 Understanding Templates

14.2 Installing and Configuring Tiles

14.3 Using Tiles

14.4 The Tiles Tag Library

14.5 Using Definitions

14.6 Internationalization Support with Tiles

Chapter 15. Logging in a Struts Application

15.1 Logging in a Web Application

15.2 Using the Servlet Container for Logging

15.3 Jakarta Commons Logging

15.4 Using the log4j Package

15.5 Using Commons Logging in JSP Pages

15.6 The Performance Impact of log4j

15.7 Third-Party log4j Extensions

15.8 Java 1.4 Logging API

Chapter 16. Packaging Your Struts Application

16.1 To Package or Not to Package

16.2 Packaging the Application as a WAR File

16.3 Building Your Struts Applications with Ant

16.4 Creating an Automated Build Environment

16.5 Restarting Your Server Remotely

Chapter 17. Addressing Performance

17.1 What Is Good Performance?

17.2 Performance Versus Load Testing

17.3 Performance- and Stress-Testing Tools

17.4 Testing the Storefront Application

17.5 Performance and Scalability Gotchas

Chapter 18. JavaServer Faces

18.1 Struts and JavaServer Faces

18.2 Overview of JSF Architecture

18.3 Installing and Running the Example Struts-Faces Application

18.4 Converting Existing Struts Applications to JSF

18.5 Further Reading

Appendix A. Changes Since Struts 1.0

A.1 ActionServlet and RequestProcessor

A.2 Modifications to the Struts Action Class

A.3 Changes to web.xml and struts-config.xml

A.4 Action Statics Changed

A.5 TagUtils and ModuleUtils

A.6 New Features of Struts 1.1

A.7 The Struts Validator

A.8 Change to Commons Logging

A.9 Removal of Admin Actions

A.10 Deprecation of the GenericDataSource

A.11 Dependency on Commons Projects

Appendix B. Downloading and Installing Struts

B.1 The Binary Versus Source Distributions

B.2 Tips on Installing Struts in Tomcat

B.3 Tips on Installing Struts in WebLogic

B.4 Tips on Installing Struts in WebSphere

Appendix C. Resources

C.1 The Struts Mailing Lists

C.2 The Struts Resource Web Page

C.3 Tiles Site

C.4 Nested Tags Site

C.5 The Struts Console

C.6 Easy Struts Project

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