Chapter 7: Debugging Struts Applications

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Overview

This chapter looks at the steps involved in debugging a Struts applications. We step through both our source code and the Struts source code. We use two popular and extremely useful integrated development environments (IDEs): the open-source Eclipse IDE and JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA. The goal of this chapter is to provide you with the knowledge you need to debug a Struts application—from the ActionServlet's process() method to your own Action implementations.

The steps in this chapter assume that you have the components shown in Table 7.1 installed.

Table 7.1: Required Components

Component	Location
Java Standard Edition 1.4x	http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html
Tomcat 4.1.24	http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.1.24/

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