Chapter 5: The Controller Layer


Alternative View Technologies

Before concluding this chapter, it's important to point out again that Struts is an extensible Web framework that allows you to use any technology you desire to develop the View layer of your Struts application. While this chapter has focused primarily on the built-in JSP-related support, there are several alternatives available. The following table lists a few of the options and a brief description, including a URL for each option.

Technology

Description and URL

Cocoon

The Apache Cocoon project is an XML-based Web application publishing engine for generating, transforming, processing, and outputting data. Don Brown created a Struts plugin, Cocoon Plugin, which integrates the Cocoon framework with the Struts framework.

http://struts.sourceforge.net/struts-cocoon/

stxx

Struts for transforming XML with XSL (stxx) is a third-party extension of the Struts framework that supports using XSLT (XML Style Language Templates) for the View layer.

http://stxx.sourceforge.net/

Swing

Java's Swing library can be used to create rich GUI front ends for Struts applications. The following article illustrates how to do this.

http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/Swing/

Velocity

The Jakarta Velocity project is a Java-based templating engine that can be used as an alternative to JSPs. VelocityStruts is a Velocity subproject that integrates Velocity with the Struts framework.

http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/struts/



Struts. The Complete Reference
Struts: The Complete Reference, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 0072263865
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 165
Authors: James Holmes

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