Designed for beginners and intermediate developers, this book helps you come up to speed as quickly as possible with using the Struts² framework. It delves deeply into the core of the Struts² framework, providing a sound understanding of the components that make up the framework and the way they interact with each other.

This book uses an application-centric approach. The development of an application drives the Struts² exposure and not the other way around. An application is defined which is build throughout the book. Most [if not all] of the code spec and snippets that you will find in this book are a part of the application.

Finally, a web based project is developed to re-enforce all the learning that took place throughout the book. This will definitely help developers to quickly get started with building real-world Web applications using the Struts² framework.

ISBN 10: 81-8404-665-0

ISBN 13: 978-81-8404-665-6

Edition: First

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Sample Chapter                                                     TOC

THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK

All About The Struts² Framework

Fundamentals Of Struts and Struts², Architecture of Struts², Struts² Framework Core Components

Setting Up The Development Environment

Installing And Setting Up NetBeans IDE, Installing And Setting Up Struts²

Getting Started With Struts²

Getting Started, Working With Actions, Building Views, Building Interceptors, OGNL And Value Stack, Validations, Using The Data Store, Integrating Hibernate With Struts²

Application Development Using Struts²

Define The Project And Its Requirements, Project Specifications, The Administration Homepage [index.jsp], The Search Books Form [searchBooks.jsp], The Manage Books Form [manageBooks.jsp], Logout, Beans And Interceptors, Running The Application

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Setup files for:

JDK 6

NetBeans IDE 6.5

Struts 2.X

Hibernate 3.2.X

MySQL Community Server 6.X

MySQL Connector/J 5.X.

Source code for the examples and the project covered in this book.