Pro Apache Struts with Ajax

• What We Do Wrong: Web Antipatterns Explained
• Struts Fundamentals
• Form Presentation and Validation with Struts
• Managing Business Logic with Struts
• Architecting the Data Access Tier with ObjectRelationalBridge
• Building Flexible Front-Ends with the Tiles Framework
• Dynamic Forms and the Struts Validator Framework
• Speeding Struts Development with XDoclet
• Logging and Debugging
• Velocity Template Engine
• Extending the Struts Framework
• Struts and Ajax
• APPENDIX A JavaEdge Setup and Installation
• APPENDIX B Struts Development Tools
• APPENDIX C Struts and Strecks

• What We Do Wrong: Web Antipatterns Explained
  • What This Book Is About
  • What This Chapter Is About
  • Challenges of Web Application Development
    • Enterprise Services
    • Application Services
  • An Introduction to Patterns and Antipatterns
    • Web Application Antipatterns
    • Concern Slush
    • Tier Leakage
    • Hardwired
    • Validation Confusion
    • Tight-Skins
    • Data Madness
  • Antipatterns, JOS Frameworks, and Economics
    • The JavaEdge Application
    • Summary
• Struts Fundamentals
  • The JavaEdge Application Architecture
    • The Design
    • Using Struts to Implement the MVC Pattern
    • Getting Started: The JavaEdge Source Tree
    • The Power of the Command Pattern
  • Constructing the Presentation Tier
    • The JavaEdge Home Page
    • Bean Tags
    • Logic Tags
    • Iteration Tags
    • Conditional Tags
    • Movement Tags
• Form Presentation and Validation with Struts
  • Problems with Form Validation
  • Using Struts for Form Validation
  • Implementing Form Validation with Struts
    • The struts-config.xml File
    • Struts ActionForm Class
    • Prepopulating an ActionForm with Data
    • Another Technique for Prepopulation
    • Prepopulating a Form the Correct Way
    • Validating the Form Data
  • The Struts HTML Tag Library
    • Setting Up a Struts HTML Form
    • Using Text and TextArea Input Fields
    • Drop-Down Lists, Checkboxes, and Radio Buttons
    • Building More Dynamic ActionForms
    • ActionForms and Business Logic
  • Summary
• Managing Business Logic with Struts
  • Business Logic Antipatterns and Struts
    • Concern Slush and Struts
    • Tier Leakage and Struts
    • Separating Business Logic from Struts
  • Implementing the Design Patterns
    • Implementing the Business Delegate Pattern
    • Implementing the Service Locator Pattern
    • The Service Locator Revisited
    • EJBs and Struts
  • Handling Exceptions in the Action Class
    • Exception Handling in Struts 1.0.x
    • Exception Handling in Struts 1.1 and Later
    • Rewriting the ApplicationException Class
    • Setting Up the struts-config.xml File
    • Writing a Custom ExceptionHandler
  • Summary
• Architecting the Data Access Tier with ObjectRelationalBridge
  • Developing a Data Access Strategy
    • The JavaEdge Data Access Model
    • The JavaEdge Value Objects
    • Using an O/R Mapping Tool
    • Setting Up the Object/Relational Mappings
    • Which Sequence Manager to Use?
  • OJB in Action
    • Retrieving Data: A Simple Example
    • Retrieving Data: A More Complicated Example
    • Storing Data Using OJB
    • Deleting Data with OJB
  • Bringing It All Together
  • Summary
• Building Flexible Front-Ends with the Tiles Framework
  • What Is the Tiles Framework?
  • Enabling Struts Version 1.1 to Use Tiles
    • Configuring the Tiles Plug-In
    • The tiles-defs.xml File
    • Adding the Tiles TLDs
    • Your First Tiles Template
  • What Are Tiles Definitions?
  • Tiles Definitions: A JSP-Based Approach
    • Overriding the Attribute Values in a Tiles Definition
    • Using Dummy Values in Your Tiles Definition
    • Disadvantages of JSP Tiles Definitions
    • Anatomy of the tiles-defs.xml File
    • Inheritance Using Tiles Definitions
    • Extending a Tiles Definition
    • Modifying the template.jsp File
    • Adding the New Definition to tiles-defs.xml
    • Modifying the .homePage Definition
  • Mapping Tiles Definitions to Action Forwards
  • Summary
• Dynamic Forms and the Struts Validator Framework
  • Introducing Dynamic Forms
    • Defining the postStoryForm Struts Form Bean
    • Writing the PostStoryDynaForm.java Implementation
    • Some Thoughts About BeanUtils and the Preceding Code
  • The Jakarta Commons Validator Framework
    • Validator Framework Setup
    • Implementing the Required Fields Validation
    • The maxlength Validation Rule
  • Use the Validator Framework Within an ActionForm Class
    • Writing Your Own Validation Rules
    • Implementing the Vulgarity Rule
    • Adding the Vulgarity Rule to the validator-rules.xml File
    • Struts Validation and Potential Long-Term Consequences
    • Implementing the Vulgarity Rule in a Form
    • An ActionForm Without Java
    • When to Use the Validator Framework
  • Summary
• Speeding Struts Development with XDoclet
  • Installing XDoclet
  • What Exactly Is XDoclet?
    • From XDoclet to Source, and All the Steps in Between
    • The Available XDoclet Tags
    • Anatomy of an XDoclet Tag
  • Integrating Ant and XDoclet
    • Using Merge Points
  • XDoclet and Struts
    • Declaring Struts Form Beans
    • Declaring Struts Actions
    • XDoclet and Java Inheritance
    • Declaring Application Exceptions
    • Building struts-config.xml Using <webdoclet..../>
    • XDoclets and the Validator Framework
    • Generating the Validator Tags from Ant
  • Summary
• Logging and Debugging
  • Why Use Logging?
    • Log Message Levels
  • Simple Web Application Logging
    • Logging with ServletContext
    • Using Commons Logging
  • The Java 1.4 Logging API
    • Apache log4j
    • Using log4j with Commons Logging
    • Log Inheritance
    • Logging Performance
    • Logging Best Practices
    • JBoss and log4j
    • Integrating Logging into JavaEdge
    • Logging in the Web Tier
    • Debugging Struts Applications Using JBoss and Eclipse
    • Debugging the JavaEdge Application
    • Hot-Deploy
    • Debugging the Struts Framework
• Velocity Template Engine
  • What Is a Template Engine?
  • Getting Started
    • Velocity and VelocityContext Classes
    • Velocity Template Language
    • Accessing Variables
    • Variable Values
    • JavaBean Properties
    • Arithmetic
    • Directives
    • Macros
    • Struts and Velocity
    • VelocityTools
  • Struts and Velocity
  • Best Practices for Velocity Use
    • Know When to Use #parse and When to Use #include
    • Use JavaBean Property Names
• Extending the Struts Framework
  • Extending Action and ActionForm
    • Providing Common Services to Your Actions
    • Hooking into the Action Execution
  • Extending RequestProcessor
    • Building a RequestProcessor
    • Using RequestProcessor Instead of Filter
    • Verifying Host Access with RequestProcessor
  • Creating Configuration Beans
    • Building the JavaEdgeActionMapping
  • Revisiting RequestProcessor
  • Building a Plug-In
    • Newsletter Service Basics
    • NewsletterManager
    • NewsletterTask
    • NewsletterPlugIn
    • Configuring the Plug-In
  • Summary
• Struts and Ajax
  • Ajax Dissected
    • Ajax on Google
    • Ajax on Yahoo
  • Where Should I Use Ajax?
    • Ajax and Web 2.0
    • Ajax and SOA
  • Ajax Internals
    • Ajax Request-Response Cycle
    • XMLHttpRequest Object
  • Ajax and Struts in Action
    • Cities.jsp
    • GetCitiesNamesAction
    • CitiesDAO
  • Summary
• APPENDIX A JavaEdge Setup and Installation
  • Environment Setup
    • Installing MySQL
    • Installing JBoss
    • Installing Apache Ant
    • Obtaining the JavaEdge Code and Dependencies
    • Installing the JavaEdge Database
    • Building JavaEdge
    • Deploying JavaEdge
  • Summary
• APPENDIX B Struts Development Tools
  • Eclipse
    • Eclipse Summary
    • Eclipse Next Step
  • NetBeans
    • JSP, HTML, XML, and DTD Editors
    • In-Process Tomcat Server
    • NetBeans Summary
    • NetBeans Next Step
  • IBM WebSphere
    • Creating a Struts Project
    • Managing Configuration
    • Creating Actions and ActionForms
    • Web Diagrams
    • WebSphere Summary
    • WebSphere Next Step
  • Borland JBuilder 2006
    • Web Projects
    • Configuration File Editor
    • JSP Editor
    • UML Designer
    • JavaDoc Preview
    • Action Designer
    • JBuilder Summary
    • JBuilder Next Step
  • Struts Console
    • Getting Started
    • Editing the Struts Configuration File
    • Editing Other Configuration Files
    • Struts Console Summary
    • Struts Console Next Step
  • Exadel Studio
    • Struts Projects
    • Configuration File Editors
    • XML Editor
    • JSP Editor
    • Web Flow Designer
    • Exadel Studio Summary
    • Exadel Studio Next Step
  • XDoclet
  • Apache JMeter
    • Getting Started
    • Features
    • Creating a Sample Test
    • JMeter Summary
    • JMeter Next Step
• APPENDIX C Struts and Strecks
  • Using Strecks
    • @Controller and @ActionInterface
    • @NavigateForward
    • @BindSimple and @ValidateRequired
  • What You Can Do with Strecks
  • Is Strecks for Me?