TT-6242 --- Mastering Struts 2.0 Developer's Workshop

Struts 2.0 is the second generation of the open source, Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework developed by The Apache Software Foundation as part of its Jakarta project.

Struts 2.0 is the second generation of the open source, Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework developed by The Apache Software Foundation as part of its Jakarta project. Struts 2.0 is built on top of a variety of components and technologies to provide tremendous flexibility and address many lifecycle issues. After reading the first J2EE Blueprints from Sun with their explanation of MVC and how to accomplish it with custom tags, Servlets, and JSP, one can clearly see that Struts 2.0 is a manifestation of Sun's J2EE MVC vision that uses many of the more recent innovations in both Java and J2EE. Struts 2.0 addresses many major issues by using vanilla POJOs, filters, and other components to build web systems. It solves the problem of controller complexity by removing the workflow logic from the code, and directing workflow in an XML configuration file. Struts 2.0 improves on the limited form support in JSP (and first generation the Struts 1.x framework) by adding numerous capabilities to form processing including easy validation, easy error display, and the refilling of form input on retries from a user's 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 2.0 in a very short time. It includes all the important concepts, and hands on labs that will have you building working Struts 2.0 applications in no time flat. Struts 2.0 is powerful, very flexible, and easily extended. This course reflects those traits as it highly customizable to allow you, the client, to build a course that fits your needs. For example, there are selectable, optional modules on how to migrate existing Struts 1.x applications to Struts 2; on the power and extensibility of handling data on the server side; on various options for extending Struts 2, including with Tiles; on how to perform complicated validation within Struts 2; and on various advanced topics such as best practices and performance. Created in collaboration with several leading J2EE and Struts authors and industry experts, Trivera Technologies Mastering Struts 2.0 Developer’s Workshop is a lab-intensive, hands-on programming course that will provide students with the skills required to design and build scalable, secure, maintainable web applications - leveraging our team’s extensive experience in the delivery of scalable enterprise applications with complex web interfaces based on J2EE technologies.

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This is an intermediate to advanced level Struts training course, designed for experienced J2EE developers that need to further extend their skills in web development and Struts. Attendees should have an extensive working knowledge in developing J2EE applications.

5 Days

Mastering Struts 2.0 Developer's Workshop  (TT-6242) Content Details

Session: Getting Started with Struts 2.0 Jakarta Struts Project MVC and Struts Review Filters, Servlets, JSP and Web Applications Struts Architecture Struts Components: FilterDispatcher, Interceptors, Actions, and Results Session: Your First Struts Application Struts 2.0 components Configuring web.xml Configuring structs.xml: package, results, exceptions, and actions Action implementation Adding basic view components Review using Custom Tags Introducing Struts Tags Themes and Templates Velocity and Freemarker Session: Validation and Interceptors XWork validation framework Implementing validation Type conversion Interceptor role Using interceptors Session: Localization and I18n Locales Formatting Messages Resource Bundles Internationalization Tags I18n Interceptor Session: Putting It All Together Create the Application Actions Searching Prepopulating Forms Validating forms Showing and Editing Error Massages Handling Exceptions Add/Edit/Delete Listing OPTIONAL SESSIONS – Configurable to Meet Student Needs. A brief technical call to assess your training goals and challenges can help us adjust the agenda to best suit your needs, and fit in the skills and topics of most importance to your team to meet your objectives.     Session: Migrating Struts 1.x Applications Differences Between Struts 1 and 2 Applications Struts 1.x Request Processing Struts 2.x Request Processing ActionForm vs. OGNL Managing Message Resources Commons Validator vs. Validator Engine Migration Strategies and Tools Specific Migration Issues Specific Migration Techniques Session: Data Management ActionContext and ValueStack Advanced OGNL Type Conversions: Built-In Type Conversions: Custom Working with Maps and Collections Session: Extending Struts Review of Struts Architecture Reconfiguring the Interceptor Stack Plug-ins Custom Plug-ins Case Study Best Practices Session: Working with the Tiles Custom Library (Recommend preceding this session with the Extending Struts session) Defining templates Using put and insert Advanced Tiles Tiles as Visual Components Using Tiles to Write Visual Components Extending Definitions (Optional) Session: Spring and Struts 2 Overview of Spring Motivation for Combining Spring and Struts 2 Mechanics of Combining Spring and Struts 2 Using Spring with Struts 2 Session: Advanced Validation Validation Framework and Workflow Configuring for Validation: Field and non-Field Built-in Validators Custom Validators Session: Advanced Topics Action Chaining Dependency Injection Testing Using Annotations Performance Tuning

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