Table of Contents

• 0. Preface
  • 0.1 The Usual Suspects
  • 0.2 HTTP, HTML, and User Agents
  • 0.3 The HTTP Request/Response Cycle
  • 0.4 The Java Language and Application Frameworks
  • • 0.4.1 Chain of Responsibility
  • 0.5 JavaBeans
  • • 0.5.1 Reflection and Introspection
    • 0.5.2 Maps
    • 0.5.3 DynaBeans
  • 0.6 Properties Files and ResourceBundles
  • 0.7 Java Servlets
  • • 0.7.1 Servlets and threads
    • 0.7.2 Servlet Context
    • 0.7.3 Servlet Request
    • 0.7.4 Servlet Response
    • 0.7.5 Filtering
    • 0.7.6 Sessions
    • 0.7.7 Dispatching Requests
    • 0.7.8 Web Applications
    • 0.7.9 Web application deployment descriptor
    • 0.7.10 Security
  • 0.8 JavaServer Pages, JSP Tag Libraries, and JavaServer Faces
  • 0.9 Extensible Markup Language
  • • 0.9.1 Descriptors
  • 0.10 JAAS
  • 0.11 Other layers
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Forward into the Past!
  • • 1.2.1 The Model: System State and Business Logic JavaBeans
    • 1.2.2 The View: JSP Pages and Presentation Components
    • 1.2.3 The Controller: ActionServlet and ActionMapping
  • 1.3 Control Flow
• 2. Building Model Components
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 JavaBeans and Scope
  • 2.3 ActionForm Beans
  • 2.4 System State Beans
  • 2.5 Business Logic Beans
• 3. Building View Components
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Internationalization
  • 3.3 Forms and FormBean Interactions
    • 3.3.1 Automatic Form Population
    • 3.3.2 Automatic Form Validation
    • 3.3.3 The Struts Validator
    • 3.3.4 Page Composition With Tiles
  • 3.4 Presentation Frameworks
  • 3.4 Direct Presentation Techniques
    • 3.4.1 Image Rendering Components
    • 3.4.2 Rendering Text
• 4. Building Controller Components
  • 4.1 Overview
  • 4.2 The ActionServlet
    • 4.2.1 Request Processor
  • 4.3 ActionForm Classes
    • 4.3.1 DynaActionForm Classes
    • 4.3.2 LazyActionForm Classes
    • 4.3.3 Map-backed ActionForm Classes
  • 4.4 Action Classes
    • 4.4.1 Action Class Design Guidelines
  • 4.5 Exception Handler
  • 4.6 Plugin Classes
  • 4.7 The ActionMapping Implementation
  • 4.8 Writing ActionMappings
    • 4.8.1 ActionMapping Example
  • 4.9 Using ActionMappings for Pages
  • 4.10 Using Wildcards in ActionMappings
  • 4.11 Using The Commons Logging Interface
• 5. Configuring Applications
  • 5.1 Overview
  • 5.2 The Configuration File
    • 5.2.1 Controller Configuration
    • 5.2.2 Message Resources Configuration
    • 5.2.3 PlugIn Configuration
  • 5.3 Configuring your application for modules
    • 5.3.1 Module Configuration Files
    • 5.3.2 Informing the Controller
    • 5.3.3 Switching Modules
  • 5.4 The Web Application Deployment Descriptor
    • 5.4.1 Configure the Action Servlet Instance
    • 5.4.2 Configure the Action Servlet Mapping
    • 5.4.3 Configure Struts Taglib"
  • 5.5 Add Framework Components To Your Application
  • 5.6 Logging
• 6. Getting Started
  • 6.1 Release Notes
    • Release Notes 1.5.0 (Release Candidate 1)
    • Release Notes 1.4.5
    • Release Notes 1.4.4
    • Release Notes 1.4.3
    • Release Notes 1.4.2
    • Release Notes 1.4.1
    • Release Notes 1.4.0
    • Release Notes 1.3.11
    • Release Notes 1.3.10
    • Release Notes 1.3.9
    • Release Notes 1.3.8
    • Release Notes 1.3.7 (Beta)
    • Release Notes 1.3.6 (Test Build)
    • Release Notes 1.3.5
    • Release Notes 1.3.3 (Test Build)
    • Release Notes 1.3.2
    • Release Notes 1.3.1 (Test Build)
    • Release Notes 1.2.9
    • Release Notes 1.2.8
    • Release Notes 1.2.7
    • Release Notes 1.2.4
    • Release Notes 1.1
    • Release Notes 1.1-rc2
    • Release Notes 1.1-rc1
    • Release Notes 1.1-b3
    • Release Notes 1.1-b2
    • Release Notes 1.1-b1
    • Release Notes 1.0.2
    • Release Notes 1.0.1
    • Release Notes 1.0
    • Release Notes 1.0-beta-3
    • Release Notes 1.0-beta-2
    • Release Notes 1.0-beta-1
    • Release Notes 0.5
  • 6.2 Installation
    • iPlanet
    • Portal Application Server
    • Jetty
    • JRun 3.0
    • Orion Application Server
    • SilverStream Application Server 3.7.1 and later
    • Tomcat with Apache
    • Bluestone Universal Business Server 7.2
    • WebSphere Application Server 3.5 FixPack 2
    • WAS with the Example Applcation
    • Weblogic 5.1 sp8

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