Struts Programming

Course Objectives
This Course provides students with the skills to write effective Struts Applications. While covering these in detail, the Course retains a 'high level' overview of the MVC Design Patterns used for such development. During the Course the student will write a complete Struts application to ensure that the content has been fully understood and practical experience is gained. On completion of this Course the student will be able to:

• understand the Model View Controller architecture
• understand the various Struts components (Action, ActionServlet, etc)
• understand the configuration files
• modify struts to include plug-ins
• understand the various form classes (ActionForm, Dyna forms, etc)
• use the various Custom Tags that struts provides
• configure Internationalised applications
• use Struts Error handling
• use the Struts Validator Framework
• Understand and configure Tiles
• Understand and use the various tools WSAD or RAD provide for Struts (if applicable)

Course Details
INTRODUCTION TO STRUTS
Model 2 And Struts
Action
ActionForm
Message Resources
FIRST STRUTS APPLICATION
Creating The View Components
Creating The Controller Components
Configuring The Application
Running Through The Application
CONFIGURATION FILES
web.xml
struts-config.xml
CONTROLLERS
Actionservlet
Action
Struts Plugins
VIEW COMPONENTS
Jsps That Get Data From The Client
Defining Jsps To A Struts Application - Forwards
Basic Actionform Beans
The DynaActionForm Bean
STRUTS CUSTOM TAGS
HTML Tags
Logic Tags
Bean Tags
Template Tags
APPLICATION PROPERTIES AND INTERNATIONALISATION
Resource Bundles
Using The Resource Properties
Example Resource Bundle File
ERROR HANDLING
Adding Error Handling To An Application
Displaying The Errors In The Jsp
Declarative Exception Handling
VALIDATOR FRAMEWORK
Validator Form Beans
Validator Plugin
Configuring The Validator
Mutiple Rules
Standard Rules
Rule Variables
Using Validation With DynaValidatorForms
TILES
Templates
Configuring Tiles
Tiles Tag Library
Course Environment Development will be performed using:

• the Java Development Kit (JDK) plus a text editor
• JBuilder
• NetBeans
• Websphere Studio Application Developer
• Rational Application Developer
• Eclipse

Course Format: Practical sessions make up a large part of the course, allowing delegates to demonstrate and reinforce the lectures given. Examples are used extensively, ranging from simple code 'snippets' to full applications with complete 'real world' functionality. These are supplied at the start of the course and it is encouraged that the delegates execute and 'experiment' with these under the instructor's guidance as they are introduced. These examples are available to take away, along with the delegate's own work. The comprehensive Student Guide supplied is fully indexed serving as a useful reference tool long after the course has finished. Delegates will also be able to access a free help-line with technical questions relating to topics covered on the course.