Course Content
Struts Architecture
- MVC and Model 2
- Command Pattern
- Jakarta Struts
- More XML, Less Java!
- Action Mappings
- JavaBeans in Struts
- Working with Forms
- Validation
- Presentation Technology
- Tiles
Action Mappings
- Command Pattern for Web Applications
- ActionServlet
- Action and ActionMapping
- Struts Configuration
- Selecting a Forward
- Global Forwards
- Declarative Exception Handling
- Global Exception Handlers
Forms
- Working with HTML Forms
- Action Forms a/k/a Form Beans
- Relationship to Input
- Relationship to Actions
- Relationship to the Model
- Relationship to Output
- DynaActionForm and Map-Backed Forms
- Validation
- Coarse-Grained Form Beans
Struts Tag Libraries
- Building View Components
- Struts Tag Libraries
- Attributes and Struts Expressions
- Building Forms
- Forms and Form Beans
- Scope and Duration of Form Data
- Managing Hyperlinks
- Error Messages
- Logic Tags
The JSP Standard Tag Library
- JSTL Overview
- JSP Expression Language
- Core Tags
- Formatting Tags
- XML Tags
- SQL Tags
- Mixing JSTL, EL, Scripts and Actions
- Indexed Properties and Struts HTML Forms
Internationalization and Localization
- i18n in Java
- i18n in Actions
- i18n in JSTL
- i18n in Validation
Input Validation
- Validation in Web Applications
- Validation in Struts
- The Struts Validator Plug-In
- Validating ActionForm Subtypes
- Configuring Validation
- Standard Validators
- Rules
- The ActionMessages Class
- Is
- Reporting Errors
- Multi-Page Validation
- Client-Side Validation
- Limitations on the Client Side
- Implementing a Validator
- Implementing ActionForm.validate
- Mapping-Based Validation
Advanced Configuration
- Struts Configuration in Depth
- Wildcards
- Extensions
- The Configuration Object Model
- Subclasses and
- Plug-Ins
- Integrating Other Frameworks
- Role-Based Security
- Chaining Actions
- The ComposableRequestProcessor Class
- Configuring Command Chains
- Modules
Under the Hood
- Global ObjectsSpecialized Struts Actions
- The Utility Package
- The Commons BeanUtils Class
- Form Beans as Adapters to the Business Tier
- Reusing Validation Rules
- Graceful Validation
Tiles
- Consistent Look and Feel
- Reusable Layouts and Content
- The Tiles Framework
- Instantiating Layouts
- Body-Wrap Insertions
- Tiles and Stylesheets
- Working with Tiles Attributes
- The Tiles Context
- Definitions
- Aggregation and Inheritance
- The Tiles Plug-In
- Forwarding to Definitions
- Performance Considerations
