Beginning

From Novice to Professional

By: Arnold Doray

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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.
Organised 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.

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"The objective of this book is to provide the reader with a working knowledge of Apache Struts 1.2. The book is intended for Java programmers who have a fair amount of knowledge about JavaServer Pages (JSP) and some general ideas about servlet technology. ... Readers with previous experience with Struts can go directly to specific topics of interest, and will find the explanations and examples fairly independent of the rest of the book." (Jose M. Ramirez, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2008)

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About the Author	p. xix
About the Technical Reviewer	p. xx
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Basic Struts
Introduction	p. 3
What Is a Web Application?	p. 3
What Struts Can Do for You	p. 4
About You	p. 5
How to Read This Book	p. 5
Useful Links	p. 6
Servlet and JSP Review	p. 7
Installing Tomcat	p. 7
Servlet Container Basics	p. 10
Important Servlet Classes	p. 12
JavaServer Pages (JSP)	p. 13
Useful Links	p. 16
Summary	p. 16
Understanding Scopes	p. 17
Scopes Quiz	p. 18
Session and Request Scope Internals	p. 20
Summary	p. 21
Custom Tags	p. 23
Custom Tag Basics	p. 23
How Custom Tags Are Processed	p. 24
The Java Handler Classes	p. 26
Helper Classes	p. 28
The TLD File	p. 29
A Temperature Conversion Tag	p. 31
Professional Java Tools	p. 35
Useful Links	p. 35
Summary	p. 35
The MVC Design Pattern	p. 37
The Registration Webapp	p. 39
MVC Quiz	p. 45
Which Comes First?	p. 46
Struts and MVC	p. 47
Lifecycle of a Struts Request	p. 48
Frameworks for the Model	p. 49
Useful Links	p. 50
Summary	p. 51
Simple Validation	p. 53
Processing Simple Validations	p. 53
Anatomy of ActionForm	p. 54
Using ActionErrors	p. 57
ContactForm for LILLDEP	p. 61
What Has Struts Done for You Today?	p. 64
Summary	p. 65
Processing Business Logic	p. 67
1,2,3 Action!	p. 67
The Statelessness of Action	p. 68
Subclassing Action	p. 69
Business Logic in the Registration Webapp	p. 70
Complex Validation	p. 73
Data Transformation	p. 74
Navigation	p. 75
Implementing ContactAction for LILLDEP	p. 76
Summary	p. 77
Basic Struts Tags	p. 79
Page Processing Lifecycle	p. 80
The View Component of the Registration Webapp	p. 82
Synopsis of HTML and Bean Tag Libraries	p. 88
Contact Entry Page for LILLDEP	p. 90
Useful Links	p. 91
Summary	p. 91
Configuring Struts	p. 93
The Structure of struts-config.xml	p. 93
Configuring the Registration Webapp	p. 94
Declaring Form Beans	p. 95
Declaring Global Exceptions	p. 96
Declaring Global Forwards	p. 97
Declaring Form Handlers	p. 98
Controller Declaration	p. 100
Message Resources	p. 101
Declaring Plug-ins	p. 101
Configuring LILLDEP	p. 102
Code Reuse	p. 103
The MNC Page	p. 104
Summary	p. 105
More Tags	p. 107
Best Practices	p. 108
The 2 + 1 Remaining Struts Libraries	p. 108
The Logic Tag Library	p. 109
The Nested Tag Library	p. 115
JSTL and Struts	p. 118
Struts EL Extensions	p. 124
The LILLDEP Full Listing Page	p. 125
Simplifying ContactForm	p. 126
Using JSTL	p. 127
Useful Links	p. 127
Summary	p. 128
Uploading Files	p. 129
Uploading a Fixed Number of Files at Once	p. 131
Uploading Any Number of Files	p. 133
Importing Data into LILLDEP	p. 140
Useful Links	p. 142
Summary	p. 142
Internationalization	p. 143
Character Encodings, Unicode, and UTF-8	p. 143
Locales	p. 146
Processing Input	p. 146
Localizing Validations	p. 147
Localizing Output	p. 150
LILLDEP for the Malaysian Market	p. 154
Useful Links	p. 155
Summary	p. 155
Review Lab: Editing Contacts in LILLDEP	p. 157
Implementing the Edit Facility	p. 158
Advanced Struts
Tiles	p. 161
Installing Tiles	p. 162
Tiles for Layout	p. 163
Tiles Components	p. 169
Example: The "Login" Tiles	p. 173
Getting External Form Data	p. 187
The Find Facility	p. 187
Summary	p. 193
The Validator Framework	p. 195
Declaring the Validator Plug-in	p. 196
Validator DTD Basics	p. 197
Using the Validator Framework	p. 198
The Standard Validators	p. 205
Adding Custom Validations	p. 209
Migrating Legacy Code	p. 216
Localizing Validations	p. 217
Using the Validator Framework in LILLDEP	p. 218
Useful Links	p. 218
Summary	p. 219
Dynamic Forms	p. 221
Declaring Dynamic Forms	p. 221
Accessing Dynamic Properties	p. 225
Dynamic Form Disadvantages	p. 226
Validating Dynamic Forms	p. 227
The Registration Webapp with Dynamic Forms	p. 228
See Ma, No Hands!: LazyValidatorForm (Struts 1.2.6+)	p. 232
The Hidden Power of BeanValidatorForm (Struts 1.2.6+)	p. 235
Deleting Selected Contacts in LILLDEP	p. 236
Useful Links	p. 237
Summary	p. 238
Potpourri	p. 239
PropertyUtils	p. 240
DownloadAction (Struts 1.2.6+)	p. 243
LocaleAction	p. 245
IncludeAction and ForwardAction	p. 247
LookupDispatchAction	p. 249
DispatchAction	p. 254
MappingDispatchAction	p. 255
Using Global Forwards	p. 258
Logging	p. 258
Using Wildcards	p. 261
Splitting up struts-config.xml	p. 263
Useful Links	p. 266
Summary	p. 266
Review Lab: The Collection Facility	p. 267
The Main Collect Page	p. 268
The New Collection Page	p. 269
The Collection Listing Page	p. 271
Removing Selected Contacts	p. 272
Adding Selected Contacts	p. 273
Up and Down a Search	p. 275
Summary	p. 276
Developing Plug-ins	p. 277
The Task at Hand	p. 277
Implementation Road Map	p. 280
How Struts Processes Form Beans	p. 281
Anatomy of a Plug-in	p. 284
Implementing DynaFormsPlugIn	p. 285
Reading XML with Apache's Digester	p. 288
Implementing DynaFormsLoaderFactory	p. 291
DefaultDynaFormsLoader	p. 294
Test Driving the DynaForms Plug-in	p. 302
Extra Credit Lab: Handling [left angle bracket]set-property[right angle bracket]	p. 303
Useful Links	p. 305
Summary	p. 306
JavaServer Faces and Struts Shale	p. 307
JSF Overview	p. 307
Shale Overview	p. 308
Learning Struts a Waste of Time?	p. 310
JavaServer Faces (JSF)	p. 310
Example: The Registration Webapp	p. 322
Where to Next?	p. 336
The Struts-Faces Integration Library	p. 337
Struts Shale Preview	p. 343
JSF vs. Shale vs. Struts	p. 355
Useful Links	p. 357
Summary	p. 358
Frameworks for the Model	p. 359
Getting the Software	p. 360
Lisptorq	p. 360
Test Driving Lisptorq	p. 363
Preparing the Development Environment	p. 363
Writing the Database Schema	p. 363
Specifying the Database Settings	p. 364
Generate the Java Files	p. 364
Writing the Test Program	p. 365
Initializing the Database	p. 365
Running the Test Program	p. 365
Using Torque for the Registration Webapp	p. 366
Using Hibernate for the Registration Webapp	p. 367
Autogenerating LILLDEP Model Classes	p. 370
Useful Links	p. 373
Commonly Used Classes	p. 375
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest	p. 375
javax.servlet.http.HttpSession	p. 376
org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessage	p. 376
org.apache.struts.action.ActionMessages	p. 377
org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors	p. 377
org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping	p. 377
org.apache.struts.action.Action	p. 377
org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm	p. 378
org.apache.struts.upload.FormFile	p. 379
org.apache.struts.tiles.ComponentContext	p. 380
org.apache.struts.action.ExceptionHandler	p. 380
Struts Tag Reference	p. 381
The HTML Tag Library	p. 381
Common Attribute Sets	p. 383
The Error Style Attribute Set (Struts 1.2.5+)	p. 386
Struts-EL Tags for the HTML Tag Library	p. 386
base	p. 386
button	p. 388
cancel	p. 389
checkbox	p. 390
errors	p. 392
file	p. 394
form	p. 394
frame	p. 396
hidden	p. 397
html	p. 398
image	p. 399
img	p. 400
javascript	p. 402
link	p. 404
messages	p. 405s
multibox	p. 407
radio	p. 408
reset	p. 409
rewrite	p. 410
select, with option, options, and optionsCollection	p. 411
submit	p. 418
text/password	p. 418
textarea	p. 420
xhtml	p. 420
The Bean Tag Library	p. 421
Struts-EL Tags for the Bean Tag Library	p. 422
cookie/header/parameter	p. 422
define	p. 423
include	p. 425
message	p. 426
page	p. 429
resource	p. 430
size	p. 431
struts	p. 432
write	p. 434
The Logic Tag Library	p. 436
Common Attribute Sets	p. 436
Selector Attributes	p. 437
Struts-El Tags for the Logic Tag Library	p. 437
empty/notEmpty	p. 437
equal/notEqual	p. 439
forward	p. 440
greaterEqual/lessEqual/greaterThan/lessThan	p. 441
iterate	p. 442
match/notMatch	p. 444
messagesPresent/messagesNotPresent	p. 446
present/notPresent	p. 447
redirect	p. 449
The Nested Tag Library	p. 451
Struts-EL Tags for the Nested Tag Library	p. 452
nest	p. 453
writeNesting	p. 454
root	p. 456
The Tiles Tag Library	p. 457
Common Attributes	p. 458
A Note on Equivalent Tags	p. 458
Struts-El Tags for the Tiles Tag Library	p. 458
insert	p. 459
definition	p. 460
put	p. 461
putList and add	p. 462
get	p. 463
getAsString	p. 464
useAttribute	p. 465
importAttribute	p. 466
initComponentDefinitions	p. 467
Answers	p. 469
Chapter 1: Introduction	p. 469
Chapter 3: Understanding Scopes	p. 470
Chapter 5: The MVC Design Pattern	p. 471
Chapter 6: Simple Validation	p. 471
Lab 8: Contact Entry Page for LILLDEP	p. 472
Lab 9a: Configuring LILLDEP	p. 473
Lab 9b: The MNC Page	p. 473
Chapter 10: More Tags	p. 474
Lab 10a: The LILLDEP Full Listing Page	p. 475
Lab 10b: Simplifying ContactForm	p. 475
Lab 11: Importing Data into LILLDEP	p. 475
Chapter 13: Review Lab	p. 476
Chapter 14: Tiles	p. 476
Chapter 15: The Validator Framework	p. 477
Chapter 17: Potpourri	p. 477
Chapter 20: JavaServer Faces and Struts Shale	p. 477
Index	p. 479
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