Struts Recipes Book

	Preface	xix
	Acknowledgments	xx
	About this book	xxii
1	Basic recipes	1
	But what is Struts?	2
	What Struts isn't	3
	A note about our favorite Ant	3
	The developer's environment	4
	Chapter 1, in brief	5
1.1	Use Ant to automatically build a Struts project	6
1.2	Default your application to an ActionForward	14
1.3	What is "jsessionid" and why do I need it?	16
1.4	Using modules for large projects	19
1.5	Specifying a resource property file in a configuration	25
1.6	Multiple message-resources in an application	27
1.7	Using the bundle attribute in Struts' custom tags	28
1.8	Manage constants throughout your application	32
1.9	Use [left angle bracket]html:base/[right angle bracket] for solid page references	35
1.10	Associating Cascading Style Sheets with Struts JSP pages	37
1.11	Implementing DynaActionForms	38
2	Forms and form elements	42
2.1	Display errors and messages	44
2.2	Display errors next to a field	50
2.3	Create a custom message queue	53
2.4	Display errors and messages in groups	57
2.5	Dynamically insert data inside a message	62
2.6	Use message-resources property file from inside an Action	69
2.7	Create a wizard	73
2.8	Alternate row colors	80
2.9	Upload a file	89
3	Struts tag libraries	96
	Using Struts tag libraries to promote good MVC practice	97
	What is a tag library?	99
	What tags do we discuss in this chapter?	102
3.1	Using [left angle bracket]html:link/[right angle bracket] to increase your application's maintainability	105
3.2	Rendering images mapped from a properties file using [left angle bracket]html:img/[right angle bracket]	109
3.3	Encoding information with a [left angle bracket]bean:write/[right angle bracket] tag	113
3.4	Using [left angle bracket]bean:define/[right angle bracket] to expose information to your pages	116
3.5	Use [left angle bracket]bean:include/[right angle bracket] for the simple server-side includes	122
3.6	Using [left angle bracket]logic:present/[right angle bracket] tags to determine page content	126
3.7	Debugging your GUI with the [left angle bracket]logic:present/[right angle bracket] tag	130
3.8	Using the [left angle bracket]logic:equal/[right angle bracket] tag for view decisions	134
3.9	Using [left angle bracket]bean:resource/[right angle bracket] to expose the struts.config.xml to your view	138
3.10	Using [left angle bracket]html:rewrite/[right angle bracket] to resolve URLs	147
3.11	Cleaning up session-scope attributes	153
3.12	Creating a basic Struts Tiles page	158
3.13	Using Tiles with XML Definitions	164
4	The Struts-Layout tag library	170
	Le Roi du Pot-au-feu	171
	Pot-au-feu	171
	What do layout tags do?	172
4.1	Configuring your application to use Struts-Layout tags	175
4.2	Creating a simple table with Struts-Layout tags	178
4.3	Creating a multicolumn dynamic table with Struts-Layout tags	182
4.4	Using Struts-Layout panels	187
4.5	Adding skins to your project with Struts-Layout	193
4.6	Creating a table with selectable rows using Struts-Layout	201
4.7	Creating a tree navigation scheme with Struts-Layout	206
4.8	Creating "bread crumb trails" with Struts-Layout	217
4.9	Creating tabbed panes with Struts-Layout	224
4.10	Implementing a "pager" with Struts-Layout	233
5	Validation within the Struts framework	242
5.1	Use an ActionForm to validate	244
5.2	Struts Validator files explained (server-side)	247
5.3	Struts Validator files explained (client-side)	252
5.4	Use declarative exception handling	256
5.5	Aggregate exceptions	261
5.6	Tailor a form for a DispatchAction	268
5.7	Use Validator constants	276
5.8	Validation in a wizard	282
5.9	Create a pluggable validator for cross-form validation	287
6	Internationalization	294
	The "national language" of the United States	295
6.1	Set locale dynamically	296
6.2	Internationalize your text	298
6.3	Internationalize your images	302
6.4	Create a locale-sensitive ActionForward	305
6.5	Internationalize your tiles	309
6.6	Internationalize validation	312
7	Logging in, security, and guarding	317
7.1	Tomcat domain authentication and Struts	320
7.2	Handling log out	326
7.3	Switch to SSL and back again	329
7.4	Secure an action mapping using the container	336
7.5	Customized action mapping security	338
7.6	Protect areas on a page	343
7.7	Protect fields	346
8	Advanced recipes	348
	Case study-a modern luxury hotel	349
	Let's revisit our B2C web application	351
8.1	Caching using a Struts plug-in	352
8.2	Use the Tiles controller	358
8.3	Generate a response with XSL	365
8.4	Generate a PDF	371
8.5	Hibernate and Struts	377
8.6	Layering applications	392
8.7	Enforce navigation	406
8.8	Use a database to store your message-resources properties	417
9	Testing	424
9.1	Testing outside the container with StrutsTestCase	426
9.2	In-container testing with StrutsTestCase and Cactus	437
9.3	Testing DynaActionForm with StrutsTestCase	444
9.4	Testing modules	449
9.5	Performance testing Struts applications	454
9.6	Testing coverage	462
	References	469
	Index	473