Programming Jakarta Struts - Brossura

Cavaness, Chuck

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0596006519 ISBN 13: 9780596006518

Casa editrice: Oreilly & Associates Inc, 2004

Riassunto

While the look and feel of an enterprise web application is certainly important, developers usually find themselves spending far too much time on the front-end presentation before they can get to coding the good stuff--the business logic at the heart of the program. Jakarta Struts addresses this issue by combining Java Servlets, Java ServerPages (JSP), custom tags, and messaging resources (like Java Message Service) into a unified, re-usable framework. The result is a cooperative, synergistic platform that's efficient and suitable for independent developers, large development teams, and everyone in between.The Struts Framework has become a highly popular open source project, but there's still woefully little documentation on the technology. What does exist is far too basic and lacks critical information for developers like you writing today's complex web applications.The revised and expanded Programming Jakarta Struts, 2nd Edition covers everything the successful earlier edition did--including an overview of the concepts involved in writing web applications; installation and configuration instructions for getting Struts up and running; a thorough discussion of how Struts implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm (known as the Model 2 approach) and how to interface with that pattern in your own applications; Logging, Validation, and Exception Handling with Struts; using Tiles; writing internationalization and localization code using Struts; and practical, real-world best practices for web applications--as well as plenty more: now fully up to date with Struts 1.1, this edition covers the latest material on tag libraries and the new JavaServerFaces (JSF) APIs and even includes all-new chapters on JSF, JSTL/EL, and security.With each enterprise system he s developed, author Chuck Cavaness has spent many grueling hours learning invaluable lessons about Struts and figuring out the dos and the don'ts of building web applications. He saves you time and headaches by sharing that invaluable real-world experience here, with his realistic, practical, here's how to do it approach to using the Struts Framework to its fullest potential.

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L'autore:

Chuck Cavaness is a graduate from Georgia Tech with degrees in computer engineering and computer science, has built Java-based enterprise systems in the healthcare, banking, and B2B sectors. Working at an Internet company to design and develop software architecture, Chuck has spent many frustrating hours figuring out the dos and the don'ts of web applications. With each enterprise system he's developed, Chuck has learned several valuable lessons about building "real-world" web applications, information that he's made available to developers who haven't had the opportunity to work on large systems. Chuck is the co-author of Special Edition Using Java 1.3 and Special Edition Using EJB 2.0, both available from QUE.

Contenuti:

Preface; Organization; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 A Brief History of the Web; 1.2 What Are Java Servlets?; 1.3 JavaServer Pages; 1.4 JSP Model 1 and Model 2 Architectures; 1.5 Why Is Model-View-Controller So Important?; 1.6 What Is a Framework?; 1.7 Alternatives to Struts; Chapter 2: Inside the Web Tier; 2.1 An Architecture Overview; 2.2 The HTTP Request/Response Phase; 2.3 Struts and Scope; 2.4 Using URL Parameters; 2.5 Forward Versus Redirect; Chapter 3: Overview of the Struts Framework; 3.1 A Banking Account Example; 3.2 Looking at the Big Picture; 3.3 Struts Controller Components; 3.4 Struts Model Components; 3.5 Struts View Components; 3.6 Multiple Application Support; 3.7 Summary; Chapter 4: Configuring Struts Applications; 4.1 The Storefront Application; 4.2 What Is a Web Application?; 4.3 The Web Application Directory Structure; 4.4 The Web Application Deployment Descriptor; 4.5 Configuring the web.xml File for Struts; 4.6 The Struts Configuration File; 4.7 The Digester Component; 4.8 The Struts Console Tool; 4.9 Reloading the Configuration Files; Chapter 5: Struts Controller Components; 5.1 The Controller Mechanism; 5.2 The Utilities Classes; Chapter 6: Struts Model Components; 6.1 The “M” in MVC; 6.2 What Is a Business Object?; 6.3 Persistence; 6.4 What Does Struts Offer for the Model?; Chapter 7: Struts View Components; 7.1 What Is a View?; 7.2 What Are ActionForms?; 7.3 Using ActionErrors; 7.4 Performing Presentation Validation; 7.5 Using the DynaActionForm Class; 7.6 Looking Ahead to JavaServer Faces; Chapter 8: JSP Custom Tag Libraries; 8.1 Custom Tags Overview; 8.2 Tag Libraries Included with Struts; 8.3 Using JavaBeans with Struts Tags; 8.4 Struts HTML Tags; 8.5 Logic Tags; 8.6 Bean Tags; 8.7 Nested Tags; 8.8 Other Useful Tag Libraries; 8.9 The JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL); Chapter 9: Extending the Struts Framework; 9.1 What Are Extension Points?; 9.2 General Extension Points; 9.3 Controller Extension Points; 9.4 Extending View Components; 9.5 Downsides to Extending the Framework; Chapter 10: Exception Handling; 10.1 Java Exception Handling; 10.2 Performance Impact of Exception Handling; 10.3 System Versus Application Exceptions; 10.4 Using Chained Exceptions; 10.5 Exception Handling Provided by Struts; 10.6 Tying Up the Loose Ends; 10.7 Conclusion; Chapter 11: The Validator Framework; 11.1 The Need for a Validation Framework; 11.2 Installing and Configuring the Validator; 11.3 Using an ActionForm with the Validator; 11.4 Creating Your Own Validation Rules; 11.5 The Validator and JSP Custom Tags; 11.6 Internationalizing the Validation; 11.7 Using the Validator Outside of Struts; Chapter 12: Internationalization and Struts; 12.1 What Is Internationalization?; 12.2 Support for I18N in Java; 12.3 Internationalizing Your Struts Applications; 12.4 Exception Handling and Internationalization; Chapter 13: Struts and Enterprise JavaBeans; 13.1 Implementing the Storefront Service Using EJB; 13.2 Interfacing Struts to EJB; 13.3 Conclusion; Chapter 14: Using Tiles; 14.1 Understanding Templates; 14.2 Installing and Configuring Tiles; 14.3 Using Tiles; 14.4 The Tiles Tag Library; 14.5 Using Definitions; 14.6 Internationalization Support with Tiles; Chapter 15: Logging in a Struts Application; 15.1 Logging in a Web Application; 15.2 Using the Servlet Container for Logging; 15.3 Jakarta Commons Logging; 15.4 Using the log4j Package; 15.5 Using Commons Logging in JSP Pages; 15.6 The Performance Impact of log4j; 15.7 Third-Party log4j Extensions; 15.8 Java 1.4 Logging API; Chapter 16: Packaging Your Struts Application; 16.1 To Package or Not to Package; 16.2 Packaging the Application as a WAR File; 16.3 Building Your Struts Applications with Ant; 16.4 Creating an Automated Build Environment; 16.5 Restarting Your Server Remotely; Chapter 17: Addressing Performance; 17.1 What Is Good Performance?; 17.2 Performance Versus Load Testing; 17.3 Performance- and Stress-Testing Tools; 17.4 Testing the Storefront Application; 17.5 Performance and Scalability Gotchas; Chapter 18: JavaServer Faces; 18.1 Struts and JavaServer Faces; 18.2 Overview of JSF Architecture; 18.3 Installing and Running the Example Struts-Faces Application; 18.4 Converting Existing Struts Applications to JSF; 18.5 Further Reading; Changes Since Struts 1.0; ActionServlet and RequestProcessor; Modifications to the Struts Action Class; Changes to web.xml and struts-config.xml; Action Statics Changed; TagUtils and ModuleUtils; New Features of Struts 1.1; The Struts Validator; Change to Commons Logging; Removal of Admin Actions; Deprecation of the GenericDataSource; Dependency on Commons Projects; Downloading and Installing Struts; The Binary Versus Source Distributions; Tips on Installing Struts in Tomcat; Tips on Installing Struts in WebLogic; Tips on Installing Struts in WebSphere; Resources; The Struts Mailing Lists; The Struts Resource Web Page; Tiles Site; Nested Tags Site; The Struts Console; Easy Struts Project; Colophon;

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oreilly & Associates Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0596006519
• ISBN 13: 9780596006518
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 450