May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
15h 59m
English
This chapter covers
In the previous chapter, we learned a great deal about the action component of the Struts 2 framework. From a developer’s daily working perspective, the action component may well be the heart and soul of the framework. But working silently in the background are the true heroes of the hour, the interceptors. In truth, interceptors are responsible for most of the processing done by the framework. The built-in interceptors, declared in the struts-default package’s defaultStack, handle most of the fundamental tasks, ranging from data transfer and validation to exception handling. ...