Struts 2 in Action

434 Pages·2008·6.19 MB·English

by  Donald Brown

Struts 2 in Action
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Struts 2 in Action
DONALD BROWN
CHAD MICHAEL DAVIS
SCOTT STANLICK
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brief contents
P 1 S 2: ..................................1
ART TRUTS A BRAND NEW FRAMEWORK
1 ■ Struts 2: the modern web application framework 3
2 ■ Saying hello to Struts 2 20
P 2 C : , ,
ART ORE CONCEPTS ACTIONS INTERCEPTORS
...................................................41
AND TYPE CONVERSION
3 ■ Working with Struts 2 actions 43
4 ■ Adding workflow with interceptors 74
5 ■ Data transfer: OGNL and type conversion 101
P 3 B : ...........................129
ART UILDING THE VIEW TAGS AND RESULTS
6 ■ Building a view: tags 131
7 ■ UI component tags 167
8 ■ Results in detail 202
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P 4 I .......................................229
ART MPROVING YOUR APPLICATION
9 ■ Integrating with Spring and Hibernate/JPA 231
10 ■ Exploring the validation framework 255
11 ■ Understanding internationalization 282
P 5 A ............................307
ART DVANCED TOPICS AND BEST PRACTICES
12 ■ Extending Struts 2 with plug-ins 309
13 ■ Best practices 326
14 ■ Migration from Struts Classic 339
15 ■ Advanced topics 360
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contents
preface xvii
acknowledgments xix
about this book xxii
about the title xxvii
about the cover illustration xxviii
P 1 S 2: ......................1
ART TRUTS A BRAND NEW FRAMEWORK
1 Struts 2: the modern web application framework 3
1.1 Web applications: a quick study 4
Using the Web to build applications 4 ■ Examining the
technology stack 4 ■ Surveying the domain 8
1.2 Frameworks for web applications 9
What’s a framework? 10 ■ Why use a framework? 10
1.3 The Struts 2 framework 11
A brief history 11 ■ Struts 2 from 30,000 feet: the MVC
pattern 12 ■ How Struts 2 works 15
1.4 Summary 18
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