Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference

by: Chuck Cavaness, Brian Keeton

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The Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference gives you an inside track on getting Struts installed, configured, and running smoothly in your enterprise. This book, an essential companion to O'Reilly's Programming Jakarta Struts, provides detailed coverage of every Struts JSP tag, the Struts configuration files and directives, built-in actions, and a wealth of other resources.

      Full Description

Web tier frameworks have soared in popularity over the past year or so due to the increasing complexity of Java itself, and the need to get more work done with fewer resources. Developers who used to spend hours and hours writing low-level features can use a well-written framework to build the presentation tier so they start coding the 'good stuff' sooner--the business logic at the core of the program. The Jakarta Struts Framework is one of the most popular presentation frameworks for building web applications with Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. If you work with the Struts Framework, then you know it speeds development time. You also know that many of its features are made up of components that are used repeatedly. Having to stop to check each component's parameters and programming details can be a time waster. The answer? The Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference. This portable book gives you easy access to the facts you need to get your job done.

  The Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference is a quick reference to all the core features of the Jakarta Struts framework. An excellent companion to Programming Jakarta Struts, the pocket reference contains detailed information on the extensive Struts tag libraries, which were described in less detail in the larger work as they were still in development at that time. This little book also provides convenient coverage of the following:

      Configuration

  Built-in Action classes

  Action forms

  Complete Tag Reference (struts 1.1)

  and much more.

  O'Reilly's Pocket References have become a favorite among programmers everywhere. By providing a wealth of important details in a concise, well-organized format, these handy books deliver just what you need to complete the task at hand. When you've reached a sticking point and need to get to the answer quickly, the new Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference is the book you'll want close at hand.

Table of Contents

Introduction

      Part I. Configuring Struts

          Configuring web.xml

                              Configuring the Struts ActionServlet

                              Declaring Initialization Parameters

                              Using the load-on-startup Setting

                              Setting Up the Welcome File List

                              Configuring the Tag Libraries

              The Struts Configuration Files

                              Using Multiple Struts Configuration Files

                              The data-sources Element

                              The form-beans Element

                              The global-exceptions Element

                              The global-forwards Element

                              The action-mappings Element

                              The controller Element

                              The message-resources Element

                              The plug-in Element

      Part II. Using Struts ActionForms

              What Are ActionForms?

              ActionForms and Scope

              The Life Cycle of an ActionForm

              Creating an ActionForm

                              The validate(

) Method

                              The ActionForm reset(

) Method

              Declaring ActionForms in the Struts Configuration File

              Using an ActionForm

              The DynaActionForm Class

              Configuring Dynamic ActionForms

              DynaActionForm and Validation

                              Creating the validation.xml File

                              Plugging in the Validator

      Part III. Built-in Action Classes

              DispatchAction

              ForwardAction

              IncludeAction

              LookupDispatchAction

              SwitchAction

      Part IV. Tag Reference

              Conventions

              Common Tag Attributes

              Using JavaBeans with Struts Tags

                              Accessing Simple Properties

                              Accessing Nested Properties

                              Accessing Indexed Properties

              Bean Tags

                              cookie

                              define

                              header

                              include

                              message

                              page

                              parameter

                              resource

                              size

                              struts

                              write

              HTML Tags

                              Common HTML Attributes

                              JavaScript Event Handlers

                              HTML Tag Descriptions

              Logic Tags

                              Value Comparison

                              Empty Value Check

                              Value Present Check

                              Substring Matching

                              Messages Check

                              Application Flow Management

                              Collection Utilities

              Nested Tags

                              Root Tags

                              Nested Parent Tags

                              Child Tags

              Tiles Tags

                              add

                              definition

                              get

                              getAsString

                              importAttribute

                              initComponentDefinitions

                              insert

                              put

                              putList

                              useAttribute

      Part V. Resources

          The Struts Mailing Lists

          The Struts Resource Web Page

          Struts Tools

          Index