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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 org.apache.struts.config Package

The org.apache.struts.config package was added to Struts 1.1. The framework uses JavaBeans at runtime to hold the configuration information it reads from the Struts configuration files. Figure 4-4 shows the main classes from the config package.

Class diagram for the org.apache.struts.config package

Figure 4-4. Class diagram for the org.apache.struts.config package

Each class in the config package holds information from a specific section of the configuration file. After the configuration file has been validated and parsed, the Struts framework uses instances of these beans to represent in-memory versions of the information that has been declared in the configuration file. These classes act as runtime containers of the configuration information and are used by the framework components as needed.

The org.apache.struts.config.ConfigRuleSet class shown in Figure 4-4 has a slightly different, but related, job—it contains the set of rules that are required to parse a Struts configuration file. Its job is to construct instances of the configuration JavaBeans mentioned in the previous paragraph when the application is started.

The ApplicationConfig Class

The org.apache.struts.config.ApplicationConfig class deserves a special introduction, as it plays a very important role in the framework. As Figure 4-4 indicates, it is central to the entire config package and holds onto the configuration information ...

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