Chapter 16. The Struts Application Framework

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IN THIS CHAPTER

• The MVC Pattern

• A First Look at Struts

• Setting Up Struts

• The struts-config.xml File

• The ActionForm

• The Action

• The Address Editing Page

• Two-Step Forms

• Configuring the Web Application Descriptor

• Summary

Programmers who started doing Web sites back when CGI coding was the hot technology are accustomed to developing sites in a certain way. For example, a form will be presented on one page, a second page is loaded to process the data when the customer hits Submit, and so on.

JSP allows you to refine this somewhat. For example, in this book you have frequently used the same page to both display and process a form. But there's an entirely new way to organize Web sites using the MVC pattern. In this chapter, you'll get a quick introduction to Struts.

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