Professional Struts Applications. Building Web Sites with Struts, Object Relational Bridge, Lucene, and Velocity 

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• 1. Table of Contents

• 2. BackCover

• 3. Professional Struts Applications - Building Web Sites with Struts, ObjectRelationalBridge, Lucene, and Velocity

• 4. Introduction

  The Goal of This Book

• 5. Who Should Use This Book?

  Who Should Use This Book?

• 6. Technologies Used in This Book

  Technologies Used in This Book

• 7. Conventions

  Conventions

• 8. Customer Support

  Customer Support Errata forums.apress.com

• 9. Chapter 1: The Challenges of Web Application Development

  Overview

• 10. Challenges of Web Application Development

  Challenges of Web Application Development Enterprise Services Application Services

• 11. An Introduction to Patterns and Antipatterns

  An Introduction to Patterns and Antipatterns Web Application Antipatterns Concern Slush Tier Leakage Hardwired Validation Confusion Tight-Skins Data Madness

• 12. Antipatterns, JOS Frameworks, and Economics

  Antipatterns JOS Frameworks and Economics

• 13. The JavaEdge Application

  The JavaEdge Application

• 14. Summary

  Summary

• 15. Chapter 2: Creating a Struts-based MVC Application

  Overview

• 16. The JavaEdge Application Architecture

  The JavaEdge Application Architecture

• 17. The Design

  The Design

• 18. Using Struts to Implement the MVC Pattern

  Using Struts to Implement the MVC Pattern Walking Through Struts Getting Started: The JavaEdge Source Tree

• 19. Constructing the Presentation Tier

  Constructing the Presentation Tier Template Tags Bean Tags Logic Tags

• 20. Summary

  Summary

• 21. Chapter 3: Form Presentation and Validation with Struts

  Overview

• 22. Problems with Form Validation

  Problems with Form Validation Using Struts for Form Validation

• 23. Implementing Form Validation with Struts

  Implementing Form Validation with Struts The struts-config.xml File Struts ActionForm Class Using the reset() Method Pre-populating an ActionForm with Data Another Technique for Pre-population Validating the Form Data Viewing the Errors

• 24. The Struts HTML Tag Library

  The Struts HTML Tag Library Setting Up a Struts HTML Form Using Text and TextArea Input Fields Drop-down Lists Checkboxes and Radio Buttons

• 25. Dynamic Forms and Validation

  Dynamic Forms and Validation Dynamic Forms The Validator Framework

• 26. Summary

  Summary

• 27. Chapter 4: Managing Business Logic with Struts

  Overview

• 28. Business-Logic Antipatterns and Struts

  Business-Logic Antipatterns and Struts Concern Slush and Struts Tier Leakage and Struts

• 29. Separating Business Logic from Struts

  Separating Business Logic from Struts

• 30. Implementing the Design Patterns

  Implementing the Design Patterns Implementing the Business Delegate Pattern Implementing the Service Locator Pattern EJBs and Struts

• 31. Summary

  Summary

• 32. Chapter 5: Building a Data Access Tier with ObjectRelationalBridge

  Overview

• 33. Developing a Data Access Strategy

  Developing a Data Access Strategy

• 34. The JavaEdge Data Access Model

  The JavaEdge Data Access Model Data Access Object Value Objects

• 35. Using an OR Mapping Tool

  Using an OR Mapping Tool

• 36. About ObjectRelationalBridge (OJB)

  Struts Applications: Building Web Sites with Struts, OJB, Lucene and Velocity

• 37. OJB in Action

  OJB in Action Retrieving Data: A Simple Example Retrieving Data: A More Complicated Example Storing Data Using OJB Deleting Data with OJB

• 38. Bringing It All Together

  Bringing It All Together

• 39. Summary

  Summary

• 40. Chapter 6: Templates and Velocity

  Overview

• 41. Separating Presentation from Java Code

  Separating Presentation from Java Code

• 42. Velocity

  Velocity

• 43. How Velocity Works

  Professional Struts Applications: Building Websites with Struts, Object Relational download

• 44. The Velocity Templating Language (VTL)

  velocity template language escape hash sign

• 45. Using the Velocity Engine from Java

  Using the Velocity Engine from Java Processing the Template Resource Loaders

• 46. JSP and Velocity

  JSP and Velocity

• 47. Creating the JavaEdge RSS Feed with Velocity

  Creating the JavaEdge RSS Feed with Velocity Installing Velocity and the Tag Library Implementing the RSS Feed

• 48. Summary

  Summary

• 49. Chapter 7: Creating a Search Engine with Lucene

  Search Requirements for the JavaEdge Application

• 50. Search Engine Fundamentals

  Search Engine Fundamentals Functionality Provided by Lucene Lucene s Architecture Index

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