Struts: Essential Skills

by Steven Holzner (Conducted by)

Overview

Struts is an open source framework that integrates with standard Java technologies letting developers build web appliactions quickly and eefectively.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072256598
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
Publication date:	07/29/2004
Series:	Essential Skills (McGraw Hill)
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Introduction	xix
1	Creating Web Applications	1
	All About Struts	2
	Why "Struts"?	4
	Who Creates and Maintains Struts?	4
Critical Skill 1.1	Get and Install Tomcat	5
	Running Tomcat	6
Critical Skill 1.2	Use JSP	8
	Scripting Elements	10
	Comments	11
	Directives	12
	Actions	12
	Reading Data from Web Pages	13
Critical Skill 1.3	Work with JavaBeans	14
	Creating a Bean	15
	Connecting to a Bean	17
	Creating Bean Properties	18
	Connecting to Bean Properties	20
Critical Skill 1.4	Work with Servlets	22
	Writing a Servlet	23
	Compiling a Servlet	25
	Installing a Servlet	25
	The Life Cycle of a Servlet	27
	Module 1 Mastery Check	30
2	Struts Essentials	33
Critical Skill 2.1	Use MVC Architecture	34
	Model 1 Architecture	34
	Model 2 Architecture	34
Critical Skill 2.2	Understand How Struts Works	35
	The Welcome Page	36
	The ActionServlet	37
	ActionMappings	38
	Action Forms	40
	Actions	41
	The Results Page	45
Critical Skill 2.3	Develop a Struts Skeleton: struts-blank.war	46
	index.jsp	49
	struts-config.xml	49
	Welcome.jsp	50
Critical Skill 2.4	Write Forms and Actions: a Struts Example	53
	Use Struts 1.2	62
	Module 2 Mastery Check	62
3	Handling User Input	65
Critical Skill 3.1	Read User Input	66
	The Welcome Page	67
	The Action Form	68
	The Action	69
	The Results Page	72
Critical Skill 3.2	Create a Full Struts Example	74
	The Custom JSP Tags	75
	The Welcome Page	81
	The Action Form	84
	The Action	86
	The Results Page	90
	Installing the Files	91
	Use Struts 1.2	92
	Module 3 Mastery Check	94
4	Working with Models and ActionForms	97
Critical Skill 4.1	Work with Models	98
	Creating the Model	104
	Use Struts 1.2	105
	Passing Action Forms to the Model	106
Critical Skill 4.2	Work with Action Forms	108
	Populating HTML Controls with Data from the Action Form	110
	Validating Data with the Action Form	115
	Using DynaActionForms	118
	Use Struts 1.2	123
	Module 4 Mastery Check	124
5	Using Actions	127
Critical Skill 5.1	Use the [left angle bracket]action[right angle bracket] Element	128
	Using Action Classes	131
	The execute Method	134
	What About Exceptions?	136
Critical Skill 5.2	Use ForwardAction	139
Critical Skill 5.3	Use IncludeAction	141
Critical Skill 5.4	Use DispatchAction	144
Critical Skill 5.5	Use LookupDispatchAction	149
Critical Skill 5.6	Use SwitchAction	152
	Use Struts 1.2	154
	Module 5 Mastery Check	154
6	The Struts [left angle bracket]html[right angle bracket] Tags	157
Critical Skill 6.1	Use the [left angle bracket]html:html[right angle bracket] Tag	161
Critical Skill 6.2	Use the [left angle bracket]html:form[right angle bracket] Tag	162
Critical Skill 6.3	Use the [left angle bracket]html:submit[right angle bracket] Tag	163
Critical Skill 6.4	Use the [left angle bracket]html:cancel[right angle bracket] Tag	164
Critical Skill 6.5	Use the [left angle bracket]html:text[right angle bracket] Tag	165
Critical Skill 6.6	Use the [left angle bracket]html:errors[right angle bracket] Tag	166
Critical Skill 6.7	Use the [left angle bracket]html:textarea[right angle bracket] Tag	168
Critical Skill 6.8	Use the [left angle bracket]html:checkbox[right angle bracket] Tag	169
Critical Skill 6.9	Use the [left angle bracket]html:radio[right angle bracket] Tag	171
Critical Skill 6.10	Use the [left angle bracket]html:button[right angle bracket] Tag	174
Critical Skill 6.11	Use the [left angle bracket]html:link[right angle bracket] Tag	175
Critical Skill 6.12	Use the [left angle bracket]html:img[right angle bracket] Tag	176
Critical Skill 6.13	Use the [left angle bracket]html:image[right angle bracket] Tag	178
Critical Skill 6.14	Use the [left angle bracket]html:select[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]html:option[right angle bracket] Tags	182
Critical Skill 6.15	Use the [left angle bracket]html:multibox[right angle bracket] Tag	184
Critical Skill 6.16	Use the [left angle bracket]html:file[right angle bracket] Tag	186
	Use Struts 1.2	189
	Module 6 Mastery Check	189
7	The Struts [left angle bracket]logic[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]bean[right angle bracket] Tags	193
	The [left angle bracket]logic[right angle bracket] Tags	194
Critical Skill 7.1	Use the [left angle bracket]logic:empty[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]logic:notEmpty[right angle bracket] Tags	198
Critical Skill 7.2	Use the [left angle bracket]logic:equal[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]logic:notEqual[right angle bracket] Tags	199
Critical Skill 7.3	Use the [left angle bracket]logic:greaterEqual[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]logic:greaterThan[right angle bracket] Tags	201
Critical Skill 7.4	Use the [left angle bracket]logic:lessEqual[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]logic:lessThan[right angle bracket] Tags	203
Critical Skill 7.5	Use the [left angle bracket]logic:match[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]logic:notMatch[right angle bracket] Tags	204
Critical Skill 7.6	Use the [left angle bracket]logic:present[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]logic:notPresent[right angle bracket] Tags	206
Critical Skill 7.7	Use the [left angle bracket]logic:iterate[right angle bracket] Tag	207
Critical Skill 7.8	Use the [left angle bracket]logic:forward[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]logic:redirect[right angle bracket] Tags	208
	The [left angle bracket]bean[right angle bracket] Tags	210
Critical Skill 7.9	Use the [left angle bracket]bean:cookie[right angle bracket] Tag	214
Critical Skill 7.10	Use the [left angle bracket]bean:define[right angle bracket] Tag	215
Critical Skill 7.11	Use the [left angle bracket]bean:header[right angle bracket] Tag	216
Critical Skill 7.12	Use the [left angle bracket]bean:message[right angle bracket] Tag	217
Critical Skill 7.13	Use the [left angle bracket]bean:parameter[right angle bracket] Tag	219
Critical Skill 7.14	Use the [left angle bracket]bean:struts[right angle bracket] Tag	220
Critical Skill 7.15	Use the [left angle bracket]bean:write[right angle bracket] Tag	222
	Use Struts 1.2	223
	Module 7 Mastery Check	223
8	Creating Custom Tags	225
Critical Skill 8.1	Use a Text-Inserting Tag	227
	Creating TLD Files	228
	Supporting Custom Tags in Java	230
	Using the Page Context	232
	Support Tag Attributes	235
Critical Skill 8.2	Create Iterating Tags	239
Critical Skill 8.3	Create Cooperating Tags	242
Critical Skill 8.4	Use Custom Tags That Create Variables	247
	Module 8 Mastery Check	250
9	The Struts Validator Framework	253
Critical Skill 9.1	Use the Validator Framework	260
Critical Skill 9.2	Use the Standard Rules	262
Critical Skill 9.3	Create Your Own Rules	265
Critical Skill 9.4	Handle Bytes	266
Critical Skill 9.5	Handle Shorts	269
Critical Skill 9.6	Handle Integers	269
Critical Skill 9.7	Handle Integer Ranges	269
Critical Skill 9.8	Handle Longs	271
Critical Skill 9.9	Handle Floats	271
Critical Skill 9.10	Handle Float Ranges	272
Critical Skill 9.11	Handle Doubles	272
Critical Skill 9.12	Handle Dates	272
Critical Skill 9.13	Handle Credit Cards	273
Critical Skill 9.14	Handle Masks	273
Critical Skill 9.15	Validate Using Constants	274
Critical Skill 9.16	Display Errors	275
Critical Skill 9.17	Use DynaActionForm Objects and Validation	277
	Use JavaScript for Validation	278
	Use Struts 1.2	279
	Module 9 Mastery Check	279
10	The Tiles Framework	283
	Working with Tiles	285
	Installing Tiles	286
Critical Skill 10.1	Create a Basic Page	288
	Creating the Layout	290
Critical Skill 10.2	Use [left angle bracket]tiles:putList[right angle bracket]	294
Critical Skill 10.3	Use the [left angle bracket]definition[right angle bracket] Tag	298
Critical Skill 10.4	Use XML-Based Definitions	299
Critical Skill 10.5	Overload Definitions	301
Critical Skill 10.6	Extend Definitions	302
Critical Skill 10.7	Use Definitions as Attributes	304
Critical Skill 10.8	Use a Definition as an ActionForward	305
	Module 10 Mastery Check	308
11	Using Eclipse with Struts	311
Critical Skill 11.1	Download and Install Eclipse	314
	The Parts of Eclipse	315
	The Platform Kernel	315
	The Eclipse Workbench	315
	The Eclipse Workspace	315
	The Team Component	316
	The Help Component	316
Critical Skill 11.2	Use Eclipse Views, Editors, and Perspectives	316
Critical Skill 11.3	Create a Struts Application with Eclipse	317
Critical Skill 11.4	Create a New Eclipse Project	318
Critical Skill 11.5	Add a JSP to an Eclipse Project	321
Critical Skill 11.6	Create a Java Class	323
Critical Skill 11.7	Edit struts-config.xml	333
Critical Skill 11.8	Add the Results Page to the Project	335
Critical Skill 11.9	Connect Eclipse to Ant	338
	Module 11 Mastery Check	343
A	Answers to Mastery Checks	345
	Module 1: Creating Web Applications	346
	Module 2: Struts Essentials	348
	Module 3: Handling User Input	350
	Module 4: Working with Models and ActionForms	352
	Module 5: Using Actions	354
	Module 6: The Struts [left angle bracket]html[right angle bracket] Tags	356
	Module 7: The Struts [left angle bracket]logic[right angle bracket] and [left angle bracket]bean[right angle bracket] Tags	358
	Module 8: Creating Custom Tags	360
	Module 9: The Struts Validator Framework	362
	Module 10: The Tiles Framework	364
	Module 11: Using Eclipse with Struts	366
	Index	369