Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference

by Cavaness, Chuck

• ISBN13: 9780596005191
• ISBN10: 0596005199
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

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 classesAction formsComplete Tag Reference (struts 1.1)and much more.

Author Biography

Chuck Cavaness is a graduate from Georgia Tech with degrees in computer engineering and computer science, has built Java-based enterprise systems in the healthcare, banking, and B2B sectors. Working at an Internet company to design and develop software architecture, Chuck has spent many frustrating hours figuring out the dos and the don'ts of web applications. With each enterprise system he's developed, Chuck has learned several valuable lessons about building "real-world" web applications, information that he's made available to developers who haven't had the opportunity to work on large systems. Chuck is the co-author of Special Edition Using Java 1.3 and Special Edition Using EJB 2.0, both available from QUE.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Configuring Struts Configuring web.xml Configuring the Struts Action

Servlet 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

Using Struts Action Forms

What Are Action Forms?

Action Forms 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

Built-in Action Classes

DispatchAction

ForwardAction

IncludeAction

LookupDispatchAction

SwitchAction

Tag Reference Conventions

Common Tag Attributes Using Java

Beans 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 get

As String importAttribute initComponent

Definitions insert put

putList useAttribute

Resources

The Struts Mailing Lists

The Struts Resource Web Page Struts Tools

Index

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