Struts 2 Framework

Course review:

Module 1: Introduction to Struts2

• Web applications: a quick study
• Why use a framework for web applications
• The Struts2 framework and the declarative architecture
• The support of annotations

Module 2: Actions and Interceptors

• The role of actions
• Implementing and packaging actions
• How to dialogue with data
• The role of interceptors
• Developing and declaring interceptors
• The request/response life cycle

Module 3: OGNL (Object-Graph Navigation Language)

• The common tasks in a web application
• Data transfer and type conversion
• The built-in converters
• How to build a custom type converter

Module 4. How to validate data

• The validation framework
• Using the built-in rules
• Writing a custom validator
• Writing the actions for validation

Module 5. Internationalization

• Java i18n and Struts2 framework
• How to use Struts2 i18n
• The default local determination

Module 6. Struts2 integration and the persistence layer

• Using Spring with Struts2
• The concept of injection
• Why use the JPA with Struts2
• Integrating Struts2 with Hibernate