November 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1488 pages
36h 35m
English
The Struts framework depends on the configuration and usage of both XML files and specific classes interacting with each other within a Web application. The main goal of Struts is to separate different aspects of design into logical blocks to free programmers and HTML/Web designers from actual Java code written in JSP files. Struts uses the struts-config.xml file, which is configured for each Web app and located in the /WEB-INF directory, to hold mappings and directives between pages. This file must have associated entries in /WEB-INF/web.xml to be used in the Web app. When application-specific Java code has to run, the struts-config.xml file directs the input received from the source file (an HTML, JSP, or ...
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