Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference

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.

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  

                ge