Beginning Apache Struts is ideal if you're a Java programmer with some JSP familiarity, but with little or no prior experience with Servlet technology. This lab-driven, time-tested tutorial takes a step-by-step, hands-on approach to teaching Struts, so you can immediately apply Struts into your work with confidence. By the book's end, you'll have acquired a working knowledge of Apache Struts 1.2.

Autorentext
Arnold Doray is Thinksquared's lead software architect and has been developing software professionally for over a decade. He has conducted several developer training courses in the U.K. and Singapore. Arnold holds a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in knowledge engineering.

Klappentext

The only current developer-driven book positioned and based on Apache Struts 1.2 (which is still the most widely used and most popular MVC-based web application development framework)

Condensed tutorial and lab format, where material has been tested in actual class settings

Includes some preview coverage of the next generation of Struts (2.x), otherwise known as Apache Shale

Zusammenfassung

Beginning Apache Struts will provide you a working knowledge of Apache Struts 1.2. This book is ideal for you Java programmers who have some JSP familiarity, but little or no prior experience with Servlet technology.

Organized in a condensed tutorial and lab format, the material in this book has been tested in real classroom environments. It takes a step-by-step, hands-on approach to teaching you Struts. The book even previews the next generation of Struts, the Apache Shale. The overall result is that you can quickly apply Struts to your work settings with confidence.

Inhalt
Basic Struts.- Servlet and JSP Review.- Understanding Scopes.- Custom Tags.- The MVC Design Pattern.- Simple Validation.- Processing Business Logic.- Basic Struts Tags.- Configuring Struts.- More Tags.- Uploading Files.- Internationalization.- Review Lab: Editing Contacts in LILLDEP.- Advanced Struts.- Tiles.- The Validator Framework.- Dynamic Forms.- Potpourri.- Review Lab: The Collection Facility.- Developing Plug-ins.- JavaServer Faces and Struts Shale.