November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
14h 34m
English
Content preview from Programming Jakarta StrutsBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 3. Overview of the Struts Framework
It’s finally time to introduce the Struts framework. Familiarity with the material from the previous two chapters will allow you to absorb the information here much faster. This chapter provides an overview of the Struts framework. It does not attempt to cover all of its features or go into significant depth; instead, it emphasizes how all the pieces fit into the MVC and Model 2 architecture presented in Chapter 1.
The rest of the book will be spent pulling back the layers and uncovering the details of the framework, expanding on the basic concepts and terminology introduced here. It is important that you have a firm grasp of the fundamentals presented in this chapter—even if you are familiar with the basic concepts of the Struts framework, you should read through this chapter before going on.
A Banking Account Example
This section introduces an online banking application that will be used to familiarize you with Struts. The example presented here is not complete, but it provides an overview of the major components that are present in all Struts applications and shows how those components fit together. A more comprehensive and thorough shopping-cart example will be used throughout the rest of the book.
Most people are familiar with the concept of online banking, so we won’t spend too much time explaining the business requirements. In short, the online banking application will allow an end user to log in to the financial institution’s web ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.