PacktLib: Learning Jakarta Struts 1.2: a concise and practical tutorial

Learning Jakarta Struts 1.2

Introduction to Struts

1.1 The Apache Jakarta Project

1.2 The Struts Project

1.3 The Struts Framework

1.4 Model Classes

1.5 Design Patterns

1.6 The Model View Controller (MVC)

1.7 MVC versus Model 2

1.8 Controller Component: ActionServlet

1.9 Design Guidelines for Action Classes

1.10 Reflection, Introspection, and DynaBeans

1.12 Business Logic

1.14 Expandability

1.15 Debugging Struts Applications

1.16 Some Experiences

2.1 Tomcat Server Installation

2.2 Installation of Struts

2.3 A Simple Page

2.4 Internationalization with Struts

The Struts Shop

3.1 Why a Bookstore

3.3 Elements of the Shop

3.4 Installing MySQL

Internationalization and Taglibs

4.1 The Structure for the Shop

4.2 Internationalization

4.3 The Welcome Page for the Shop

4.4 Custom Actions

4.5 struts-bean.tld

Logging and Configuration

5.1 Configuration

5.2 Simple Logging

5.3 Logging Solutions

5.4 JDK Logging

5.5 Reading Configuration Settings

5.6 Logging with Log4J

5.7 Jakarta Commons Logging

5.8 Deciding What to Log

6.1 Preparation

6.2 Struts Form Beans

7.1 Value Comparison

7.2 Substring Matching

7.3 Redirection

7.4 Collection Utilities

7.5 Sorting Tags

8.1 Tomcat Error Pages

8.2 Custom Exceptions

8.3 Exception Handling

8.4 ActionErrors

Controller and Templates

9.1 Consistent Layout without Struts

9.2 Central Controller with Struts

9.3 Consistent Layout with Struts Tiles

Putting It All Together

10.1 Authorization

10.2 BookCatalog

10.3 Price Information

10.4 The Shopping Cart

10.5 Using the Shopping Cart

10.6 Placing Orders

Struts Validator and Plug-In Classes

11.1 Verifying User Input with the Struts Validator

11.2 Plug-In Classes

12.1 Installation

12.2 Internationalization

12.3 Java Classes

12.5 JSTL and Struts-EL

Tools and Tricks

13.1 Code Conventions

13.2 The Struts Console

13.3 Struts in WSAD (Eclipse)

13.4 StrutsDoc and Ant

13.5 Display Tags

13.7 Testing: HTTPUnit

13.8 Different Struts Functions

13.9 XSLT Configuration Overview

13.10 Extending ActionServlet