Struts 2 for Beginners

Designed for beginners and intermediate developers, this book helps you come up to speed as quickly as possible with using the Struts 2 framework. It delves deeply into the core of the Struts 2 framework, providing a sound understanding of the components that make up the framework and the way they interact with each other. This book uses an application-centric approach. The development of an application drives the Struts 2 exposure and not the other way around. An application is defined which is built throughout the book. Most [if not all] of the code spec and snippets that you will find in this book are a part of the application. Finally, a web based project is developed to re-enforce all the learning that took place throughout the book. This will definitely help developers to quickly get started with building real-world Web applications using the Struts 2 framework. Topics Covered In the Book All About The Struts 2 Framework Fundamentals Of Struts and Struts 2, Architecture of Struts 2, Struts 2 Framework Core Components Setting Up The Development Environment Installing And Setting Up NetBeans IDE, Installing And Setting Up Struts 2 Getting Started With Struts 2 Getting Started, Working With Actions, Building Views, Building Interceptors, OGNL And Value Stack, Validations, Using The Data Store, Integrating Hibernate With Struts 2 Application Development Using Struts 2 Define The Project And Its Requirements, Project Specifications, The Administration Homepage [index.jsp], The Search Books Form [searchBooks.jsp], The Manage Books Form [manageBooks.jsp], Logout, Beans And Interceptors, Running The Application CD-Rom Contents * Setup files for JDK 6, NetBeans IDE 6.5, Struts 2.X, Hibernate 3.2.X, MySQL Community * Server 6.X, MySQL Connector/J 5.X. * Source code for the examples and the project covered in this book.