Participants should have java development background. Familiarity with developing distributed applications is helpful. Students need to have developed with JSP, Servlets, and EJBs before taking this class. We will be developing all of the above technologies in class.

Jakarta Struts is the most popular and powerful framework for developing JSP applications. In this Struts training class, experienced Java developers learn how to use Struts and the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern to build scalable, maintainable data-driven Web applications.

Understand the problems with vanilla servlets/JSP, and the motivation for Struts

Understand MVC and the Struts architecture

Understand the Struts controller, Struts views, and Struts resource bundles

Create & configure applications using Struts

Define views, actions, and FormBeans

Use Struts for form processing

Use ActionMappings

Handle errors and debug Struts applications

Use the Bean, Logic, and HTML Custom Tag Libraries

Use the flow-of-control custom tags

Jakarta Struts Project	MVC and Struts
Review of Web applications	Servlets & JSP
Struts Controller, and Struts Views	Struts Resource Bundle

Components	Model
View	Controller
Model 2 JSP development	Overview of the pattern
Compare/contrast model 1 vs. model 2	JSP development
Struts implements model 2 pattern

Your First Struts Application	Configuring Struts applications
Defining views	Defining actions
Defining FormBeans	Action Mappings

Configuring Struts	Integrating Struts with Apache
Integrating Struts with Weblogic	Integrating Struts with Websphere
struts-config.xml

ActionError and ActionErrors	Adding Error handling
ActionForm validate method	Error Management in Action.execute()
Debugging and logging	Handling exceptions
Declarative Exception Handling

Cookie management	Defining and working with beans
Working with headers	Handling message resources
Working with HTML forms and form beans	Iterating over lists
Conditionally including parts of your JSP