Jakarta Struts Programming (Second Edition)

Author: (USA) Kevin Cavaness (Cavaness C.)
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Although the appearance and operation of enterprise Web applications are important, developers find that they always spend too much time on the front-end presentation before writing the business logic of the application. To solve this problem, Jakarta Struts combines Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), custom tags, and message resources (messaging resource) into a unified, reusable framework. Struts is a platform that can work together and collaborate, suitable for independent developers, large development teams, and anyone in between. Since the first edition of this book was published, the Struts open-source project has become increasingly popular. Although this technology is exciting, its documentation is still very scarce—most guides are too simple, and developers who want to write complex Web applications cannot find the key information they need. The second edition of this book was revised and expanded to fill this information gap, focusing on the newly released Struts 1.1 version and providing new information. The second edition adds new chapters specifically discussing security, integration with the JSF API, the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), and Struts's Expression Language (EL). Additionally, the second edition expands on the existing topics in the first edition, including: · Installing, setting up, and configuring Struts · Explaining the basic concepts of Web applications · Implementing the MVC design pattern (Model 2 approach) to enable your application to use this pattern · Using Struts's logging, validation, and exception handling mechanisms · Using Struts Tiles template library · Using Struts to write internationalization and localization code · Applying real-world best practices to your Web applications For every enterprise system they develop, the author of this book, Chuck Cavaness, spends a lot of time researching what can be learned from Struts and finding the most effective ways to build Web applications. To save you time and avoid headaches, the author shares invaluable practical experience with an ideal, pragmatic "say it as you do it" approach, guiding you to maximize the potential of the Struts framework. Since the first edition of this book was published, the Struts open-source project has become increasingly popular. Although this technology is exciting, its documentation is still very scarce—most guides are too simple, and developers who want to write complex Web applications cannot find the key information they need. The second edition of this book was revised and expanded to fill this information gap, focusing on the newly released Struts 1.1 version and providing new information. The second edition adds new chapters specifically discussing security, integration with the JSF API, the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), and Struts's Expression Language (EL). Additionally, the second edition expands on the existing topics in the first edition. For every enterprise system they develop, the author of this book, Chuck Cavaness, spends a lot of time researching what can be learned from Struts and finding the most effective ways to build Web applications. To save you time and avoid headaches, the author shares invaluable practical experience with an ideal, pragmatic "say it as you do it" approach, guiding you to maximize the potential of the Struts framework.