Part 1 Struts 2: a brand new framework

1 Struts 2: the modern web application framework

1.1 Web applications: a quick study

1.2 Frameworks for web applications

1.3 The Struts 2 framework

1.4 Summary

2 Saying hello to Struts 2

2.1 Declarative architecture

2.2 A quick hello

2.3 HelloWorld using annotations

2.4 Summary

Part 2 Core concepts: actions, interceptors, and type conversion

3 Working with Struts 2 actions

3.1 Introducing Struts 2 actions

3.2 Packaging your actions

3.3 Implementing actions

3.4 Transferring data onto objects

3.5 File uploading: a case study

3.6 Summary

4 Adding workflow with interceptors

4.1 Why intercept requests?

4.2 Interceptors in action

4.3 Surveying the built-in Struts 2 interceptors

4.4 Declaring interceptors

4.5 Building your own interceptor

4.6 Summary

5 Data transfer: OGNL and type conversion

5.1 Data transfer and type conversion: common tasks of the web application domain

5.2 OGNL and Struts 2

5.3 Built-in type converters

5.4 Customizing type conversion

5.5 Summary

Part 3 Building the view: tags and results

6 Building a view: tags

6.1 Getting started

6.2 An overview of Struts tags

6.3 Data tags

6.4 Control tags

6.5 Miscellaneous tags

6.6 Using JSTL and other native tags

6.7 A brief primer for the OGNL expression language

6.8 Summary

7 UI component tags

7.1 Why we need UI component tags

7.2 Tags, templates, and themes

7.3 UI Component tag reference

7.4 Summary

8 Results in detail

8.1 Life after the action

8.2 Commonly used result types

8.3 JSP alternatives

8.4 Global results

8.5 Summary

Part 4 Improving your application

9 Integrating with Spring and Hibernate/JPA

9.1 Why use Spring with Struts 2?

9.2 Adding Spring to Struts 2

9.3 Why use the Java Persistence API with Struts 2?

9.4 Summary

10 Exploring the validation framework

10.1 Getting familiar with the validation framework

10.2 Wiring your actions for validation

10.3 Writing a custom validator

10.4 Validation framework advanced topics

10.5 Summary

11 Understanding internationalization

11.1 The Struts 2 framework and Java i18n

11.2 A Struts 2 i18n demo

11.3 Struts 2 i18n: the details

11.4 Overriding the framework’s default locale determination

11.5 Summary

Part 5 Advanced topics and best practices

12 Extending Struts 2 with plug-ins

12.1 Plug-in overview

12.2 Common plug-ins

12.3 Internal component system

12.4 Writing a breadcrumb plug-in

12.5 Summary

13 Best practices

13.1 Setting up your environment 327

13.2 Unit-testing your actions

13.3 Maximizing reuse

13.4 Advanced UI tag usage

13.5 Summary

14 Migration from Struts Classic

14.1 Translating Struts Classic knowledge

14.2 Converting by piecemeal

14.3 Summary

15 Advanced topics

15.1 Advanced action usage

15.2 Dynamic method invocation

15.3 Using tokens to prevent duplicate form submits

15.4 Displaying wait pages automatically

15.5 A single action for CRUD operations

15.6 Tiles and Struts 2

15.7 Summary

 
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