Description
Book SynopsisThis is a quick reference to all the core features of the Jakarta Struts framework and contains detailed information on the extensive Struts tag libraries, it also provides convenient coverage of the following: new features in Struts 1.1; configuration; action classes; and action forms.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Configuring Struts Configuring web.xml Configuring the Struts ActionServlet Declaring Initialization Parameters Using the load-on-startup Setting Setting Up the Welcome File List Configuring the Tag Libraries The Struts Configuration Files Using Multiple Struts Configuration Files The data-sources Element The form-beans Element The global-exceptions Element The global-forwards Element The action-mappings Element The controller Element The message-resources Element The plug-in Element Part II. Using Struts ActionForms What Are ActionForms? ActionForms and Scope The Life Cycle of an ActionForm Creating an ActionForm The validate( ) Method The ActionForm reset( ) Method Declaring ActionForms in the Struts Configuration File Using an ActionForm The DynaActionForm Class Configuring Dynamic ActionForms DynaActionForm and Validation Creating the validation.xml File Plugging in the Validator Part III. Built-in Action Classes DispatchAction ForwardAction IncludeAction LookupDispatchAction SwitchAction Part IV. Tag Reference Conventions Common Tag Attributes Using JavaBeans with Struts Tags Accessing Simple Properties Accessing Nested Properties Accessing Indexed Properties Bean Tags cookie define header include message page parameter resource size struts write HTML Tags Common HTML Attributes JavaScript Event Handlers HTML Tag Descriptions Logic Tags Value Comparison Empty Value Check Value Present Check Substring Matching Messages Check Application Flow Management Collection Utilities Nested Tags Root Tags Nested Parent Tags Child Tags Tiles Tags add definition get getAsString importAttribute initComponentDefinitions insert put putList useAttribute Part V. Resources The Struts Mailing Lists The Struts Resource Web Page Struts Tools Index
