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Struts Survival Guide: Basics to Best Practices (J2ee Survival Series)

ISBN: 0974848808
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 96

Authors: Srikanth Shenoy, Nithin Mallya

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• 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
• Controlling the validation
• Controlling duplicate form submissions
• DispatchAction for Image Button form submissions
• Summary
• Index
• Index_C-D
• Index_E-F
• Index_H-I
• Index_J-L
• Index_M-N
• Index_P-S
• Index_T-X
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Listings
• List of Sidebars