A TUTORIAL
by Budi Kurniawan
448 pages, April 2005
ISBN: 0-9752128-1-8
US $44.99
The first book on both design and programming of Apache Struts. The first part provides a complete reference on the latest version of Struts and teaches how a beginner can start coding with Struts. The second chapter discusses best practices and popular design patterns and teaches how Struts developers/architects should design their applications.
Here are some of the programming and design issues this book addresses:
Action forms and how to choose the type of an action form’s property
How Struts processes action forms
Input validation and the Validator plug-in
Data conversion with Jakarta Commons BeanUtil class
HTML, Bean, Logic tag libraries
The Expression Language and JSTL
The Data Access Object design pattern
Earlier session invalidation
Caching, paging, and sorting
Request wrappers