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Programming Jakarta Struts
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Programming Jakarta Struts

by Chuck Cavaness
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
14h 34m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The Web Application Deployment Descriptor

The web application deployment descriptor conveys configuration information between application developers, deployers, and assemblers. Web containers also use the descriptor to configure and load web applications when the container is started.

All servlet containers that are compliant with the 2.3 Servlet specification are required to support the following types of deployment information:

  • Initialization parameters

  • Session configuration

  • Servlet declarations

  • Servlet mappings

  • Application lifecycle listener classes

  • Filter definitions and mappings

  • MIME type mappings

  • Welcome file list

  • Error pages

Security configuration information is not required unless the servlet container is part of a J2EE implementation. The following elements are not required unless the servlet container is using JSP pages or is part of a J2EE application server:

  • Tag library mappings

  • JNDI References

Warning

Much of the functionality described in this list was added in the 2.3 version of the Servlet specification. If you are using a 2.2-compliant container, it will not be available to you. Struts 1.1 supports the 2.2 and 2.3 Servlet specifications.

Web Application Deployment Descriptor DTD

The format for both the web application deployment descriptor and the Struts configuration file is based on a Document Type Definition (DTD), which defines the legal building blocks that may be used in the XML files. From the DTD point of view, all XML documents, including ...

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