• 0. Preface
  • 0.1 The Usual Suspects
  • 0.2 HTTP, HTML, and User Agents
  • 0.3 The HTTP Request/Response Cycle
  • 0.4 The Java Language and Application Frameworks
  • 0.5 JavaBeans
  • 0.6 Properties Files and ResourceBundles
  • 0.7 Java Servlets
  • 0.8 JavaServer Pages and JSP Tag Libraries
  • 0.9 Extensible Markup Language
  • 0.10 JAAS
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Forward into the Past!
  • 1.2 The Model-View-Controller ('MVC') Design Pattern
  • 1.2.1 Struts Framework Overview
  • 1.2.2 The Model: System State and Business Logic JavaBeans
  • 1.2.3 The View: JSP Pages and Presentation Components
  • 1.3 The Controller: ActionServlet and ActionMapping
• 2. Building Model Components
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 JavaBeans and Scope
  • 2.3 ActionForm Beans
  • 2.4 System State Beans
  • 2.5 Business Logic Beans
  • 2.6 Accessing Relational Databases
• 3. Building View Components
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Internationalization
  • 3.3 Forms and FormBean Interactions
    • 3.3.1 Indexed & Mapped Properties
    • 3.3.2 Input Field Types Supported
    • 3.3.3 Other Useful Presentation Tags
    • 3.3.4 Automatic Form Validation
    • 3.3.5 Struts Validator
  • 3.4 Other Presentation Techniques
    • 3.4.1 Application-Specific Custom Tags
    • 3.4.2 Page Composition With Includes
    • 3.4.3 Page Composition With Tiles
    • 3.4.4 Image Rendering Components
    • 3.4.5 Rendering Text
    • 3.4.6 The Struts-EL Tag Library
• 4. Building Controller Components
  • 4.1 Overview
  • 4.2 The ActionServlet
  • 4.2.1 Request Processor
  • 4.3 ActionForm Classes
  • 4.3.1 DynaActionForm Classes
  • 4.3.2 Map-backed ActionForm Classes
  • 4.4 Action Classes
  • 4.4.1 Action Class Design Guidelines
  • 4.5 Exception Handler
  • 4.6 Plugin Classes
  • 4.7 The ActionMapping Implementation
  • 4.8 Writing ActionMappings
    • 4.8.1 ActionMapping Example
  • 4.9 Using ActionMappings for Pages
  • 4.10 Using The Commons Logging Interface
• 5. Configuring Applications
• 5.1 Overview
• 5.2 The Struts Configuration File
  • 5.2.1 Controller Configuration
  • 5.2.2 Message Resources Configuration
  • 5.2.3 PlugIn Configuration
  • 5.2.4 Data Source Configuration
• 5.3 Configuring your application for modules
• 5.3.1 Module Configuration Files
• 5.3.2 Informing the Controller
• 5.3.3 Switching Modules
• 5.4 The Web Application Deployment Descriptor
• 5.4.1 Configure the Action Servlet Instance
• 5.4.2 Configure the Action Servlet Mapping
• 5.4.3 Configure the Struts Tag Libraries"
• 5.5 Add Struts Components To Your Application
• 5.6 Logging in Struts Applications
• 6. Getting Started
• 6.1 Release Notes
• Release Notes 1.1
• Release Notes 1.1-rc2
• Release Notes 1.1-rc1
• Release Notes 1.1-b3
• Release Notes 1.1-b2
• Release Notes 1.1-b1
• Release Notes 1.0.2
• Release Notes 1.0.1
• Release Notes 1.0
• Release Notes 1.0-b3
• Release Notes 1.0-b2
• Release Notes 1.0-b1
• 6.2 Installation
• iPlanet
• Portal Application Server
• Jetty
• JRun 3.0
• Orion Application Server
• SilverStream Application Server 3.7.1 and later
• Tomcat with Apache
• Bluestone Universal Business Server 7.2
• WebSphere Application Server 3.5 FixPack 2
• WAS with the Example Applcation
• Weblogic 5.1 sp8

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