Jakarta Struts

How This Book Is Organized

We start by introducing you to Jakarta Struts and its concepts. We help you collect the pieces you need for a complete Web development environment and then introduce you to a simple Web application. Then we drill deep into the processes you need to understand to use Struts as you create a Web application.

More specifically, this book is divided into five parts. Each part contains two or more chapters, and each part functions as a whole to explain how Jakarta Struts works.

Part I: Getting to Know Jakarta Struts

Part I contains important introductory information about Jakarta Struts, including what it is and how to start using it. Chapter 3 takes you through the steps of creating a simple logon application from beginning to end so that you can get the big picture and understand the details that follow in the rest of the book.

Part II: Starting from the Core

Part II settles into the three groups that make up the Struts framework: the Controller (Chapter 4), the Model (Chapter 5), and the View (Chapter 6). In Chapter 7, we explain how to use the configuration files. This part contains all the concepts that you need to know to use Struts for creating Web applications.

Part III: Expanding Your Development Options

Part III offers some additional tools and techniques that any programmer can use. Chapter 8 covers exception handling. Chapter 9 explains how to use plug-ins. Chapter 10 reviews the tag libraries as well as how to use Java Server faces and create custom tabs. Chapter 11 discusses page composition techniques including server side includes and tiles. Chapter 12 is all about securing your application.

Part IV: Putting It All Together

Part IV starts with a chapter on using logging to troubleshoot any problems that might come up. (But that never happens to you, does it?) Then we intro¬duce a music collection application as a thorough example of the process of developing an application using Struts.

Part V: The Part of Tens

No For Dummies book is complete without its part of tens — it’s a long¬standing tradition. Chapter 15 reviews ten helpful extensions to Struts, and Chapter 16 offers you ten ways to find more information about Struts.

Part VI: Appendixes

Throughout the book, we use tags from the Struts-EL and JSTL tag libraries. For your easy reference, Appendix A includes the syntax for all the tags in these libraries. Appendix B is a glossary of the terms we use in this book, just to make sure that you understand what we’re saying!
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