Pro Jakarta Struts, 2/e (Paperback)

Building web applications that are maintainable and extensible requires a significant amount of design and planning before even a single line of code can be written. However, by leveraging development frameworks, many of the challenges of web-based development can be overcome. Pro Jakarta Struts, Second Edition acts as a roadmap to demonstrate how to use the Jakarta Struts framework to solve everyday web application development challenges.

Jakarta Struts is a web development framework that provides a set of code libraries that provide the infrastructure of a web application based on a well established and accepted design pattern. This book takes an application-centric approach: the development of an application drives the Struts coverage and not the other way round.

Discussion of Struts from an anti-pattern perspective is also included. You'll learn how to use Struts effectively over simply just using it. Improper design can lead to long term dependencies on the Struts framework, which makes code reuse difficult to achieve.

Contents：

Chapter 1 What We Do Wrong: Web Antipatterns Explained
Chapter 2 Struts Fundamentals
Chapter 3 Form Presentation and Validation with Struts
Chapter 4 Managing Business Logic with Struts
Chapter 5 Architecting the Data Access Tier with ObjectRelationalBridge
Chapter 6 Building Flexible Front-Ends with the Tiles Framework
Chapter 7 Dynamic Forms and the Struts Validator Framework
Chapter 8 Speeding Struts Development with XDoclet
Chapter 9 Logging and Debugging
Chapter 10 Velocity Template Engine
Chapter 11 Extending the Struts Framework
Appendix A JavaEdge Setup and Installation
Appendix B Struts Development Tools