Jakarta Struts and Tiles
Summary:
This advanced course shows JSP and servlet programmers how to build “Model-2” Web applications using the Jakarta Struts project from Apache. Students learn the Struts architecture and see how it captures a great deal of pre-existing best practice in Web application development. They build applications from scratch using the Struts 1.1 code base, advancing through actions and action mappings, form beans, and request forwarding. They use relational data at the model layer and learn to configure JDBC data sources under Struts. Throughout, the course emphasizes the great facility in Struts of using XML declarations to replace boilerplate Java coding. The course then shifts from these controller techniques to a focus on presentation. Students learn to use various libraries of custom JSP tags: the JSP Standard Tag Library (which supersedes a number of Struts tags), Struts HTML tags for form-building and validation, and the Tiles library for robust and reusable page layouts. Two chapters near the end of the course treat issues of effective Struts development: one focuses on “under the hood” coding techniques and one on best practices at a design level. By the end of the course, students are building complex, internationalized Web applications that validate user input, handle error conditions gracefully, and make best use and reuse of control and presentation logic through actions, form beans, validators, business and persistence JavaBeans, and Tiles.
Duration:
5 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience:
This course is intended for Java Programmers.
Topics:
- Struts Architecture
- Action Mappings
- Forms
- Relational Data
- Struts Tag Libraries
- The JSP Standard Tag Library
- Internationalization and Localization
- Input Validation
- Under the Hood
- Best Practices
- Tiles
Prerequisites:
Students should be familiar with JSP and Servlets, and have basic knowledge of XML.
Last Update: May 22, 2012
