Mastering Struts to Build Maintainable, Extensible Servlets/JSP Web Applications

This intensive course will give you the skills to design and build scalable, secure, maintainable web applications. Throughout this training, you will be confronted with common web application design problems and given the tools you will need to solve them, such as J2EE design patterns. You will also be exposed to a range of J2EE and web technologies such as Servlets, JSPs, JNDI, Struts and XML, and advice on when and how to use them. This hands-on workshop offers a comprehensive hands-on tutorial in the design and programming of servlets and JSPs, and includes all the important concepts, and hands on labs that will have you building working Struts applications in no time flat. In addition, this course covers how to extend the Struts framework to fit your unique needs. Struts is an advanced Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for building Servlet/JSP based web applications. It is an open source framework built as part of the Jakarta project (the makers of Tomcat) that leverages the capabilities of Servlets/JSP and custom tags to make it easier to use these technologies on large or complex web systems. Struts addresses many major issues in using vanilla Servlets/JSP to build web systems. It solves the problem of controller complexity by removing the workflow logic from the servlets, and directing workflow in an XML configuration file. Struts improves on the limited form support in JSP by adding numerous capabilities to form processing including easy validation, easy error display, and the refilling of form input on form retries from a users previous entries. It minimizes the complexity of JSP pages, by supplying a very extensive and flexible set of custom tag libraries for many of the standard operations needed in JSP pages. This course will get you up to speed with Struts in a very short time. It includes all the important concepts, and hands on labs that will have you building working Struts applications in no time flat. I addition it covers the Advanced Struts Topics, like Tiles Components and 'Extending the Framework' Working in a hands-on environment, under the guidance of our experienced subject matter experts, students will learn to: • Understand the problems with vanilla servlets/JSP, and the motivation for Struts • Understand MVC and the Struts architecture • Understand the Struts controller, Struts views, and Struts resource bundles • Create & configure applications using Struts • Define views, actions, and FormBeans • Use Struts for form processing • Use ActionMappings • Handle errors and debug Struts applications • Use the Bean, Logic, and HTML Custom Tag Libraries • Use the flow-of-control custom tags • Implement Internationalization • Use File Upload in Struts • Use DynaActionForms • Use the Validation Framework for Server Side validation • Use the Validation Framework for Client Side validation • Apply the Tiles Framework to your Struts application • Use Tiles XML layout definitions • Write Tiles Visual Components • Understand how to forward to Tiles definitions • Develop your own custom Tags • Extends the Struts Request Processor • Write Custom ActionMappings • Write Struts Plug-ins

Experienced Java Developers who want to learn how to use J2EE components to build enterprise web applications.