Struts Survival Guide: Basics to Best Practices (J2ee Survival Series) - page 1
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- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Struts Survival Guide - Basics to Best Practices
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Model 1 Architecture
- Model 2 Architecture - MVC
- MVC with configurable controller
- First look at Struts
- Tomcat and Struts installation
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Struts Framework Components
- Struts request lifecycle
- Struts Configuration File - struts-config.xml
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Your First Struts Application
- Introduction
- Hello World - step by step
- Lights, Camera, Action
- Handling multiple buttons in HTML Form
- Value replacement in Message Resource Bundle
- Summary
- Chapter 4: All About Actions
- ForwardAction
- Protecting JSPs from direct access
- IncludeAction
- DispatchAction
- LookupDispatchAction
- Configuring multiple application modules
- Roll your own Base Action and Form
- Handling Duplicate Form Submissions
- What goes into Action (and what doesn t)
- When to use Action chaining (and when not to)
- Actions for complex transitions
- Managing struts-config.xml
- Guidelines for Struts Application Development
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Form Validation
- Using Commons Validator with Struts
- DynaActionForm - The Dynamic ActionForm
- Validating multi-page forms
- Validating form hierarchy
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Struts Tag Libraries
- Struts HTML Tags
- Using Images for Form submissions
- Struts Bean Tags
- Struts Logic Tags
- A crash course on JSTL
- Struts-EL
- List based Forms
- Multi-page Lists and Page Traversal frameworks
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Struts and Tiles
- What is Tiles
- Your first Tiles application
- Tiles and multiple modules
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Struts and I18N
- The Java I18N and L10N API
- Internationalizing Struts Applications
- Internationalizing Tiles Applications
- Processing Localized Input
- Character encodings
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Struts and Exception Handling
- Exception Handling Basics
- Log4J crash course
- Principles of Exception Handling
- The cost of exception handling
- JDK and exception handling
- Exception handling in Servlet and JSP specifications
- Exception handling - Struts way
- Logging Exceptions
- Strategies for centralized logging
- Reporting exceptions
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Effectively Extending Struts
- A rudimentary page flow controller
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