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Welcome Pages

• StrutsDocIndex

• StrutsDocLearning

• StrutsDocAcquiring

• StrutsDocUsing

• StrutsDocVolunteers

• StrutsDocStatus (roadmap)

• StrutsDocReleases

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JavaDocs

• Struts 1.3.9 ???doesn't exist???

• Struts 1.3.8

• Struts 1.2.9

• Struts 1.2.8

• Struts 1.2.7

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User Guide

• Preface

• Introduction

• StrutsModel2

• Quick Start: from Model 1 to full-blown Struts CRUD application

  • A simple Model 1 application (pure JSP)

  • A simple Model 2 application (servlet + JSP)

  • Converting Model 2 application into Struts application

  • Handling user events

  • Action interaction, form beans, submitting HTML forms

  • Error messages, redisplaying HTML form with errors, CRUD

• Building Model Components

  • ...

  • StrutsFormBeans

  • ActionForm Beans

  • System State Beans

  • Business Logic Beans

  • Lazy Beans

  • StrutsCatalogLazyList

  • ...

  • StateManagement

    • RolloverScope

  • ...

  • DTO Implementation

  • DaoRelated -- Data Access Frameworks

• Building View Components

  • ...

  • Forms and FormBean Interactions

    • Link Only To Actions

    • Automatic Form Population

    • Automatic Form Validation

    • The Struts Validator

      • StrutsBeginnerValidatorFramework

    • Page Composition With Tiles

    • StrutsCatalogVariableScreenFields

    • Errors and Messages

      • StrutsDeprecatedActionErrors

      • ActionErrorsAndActionMessages

      • Displaying messages

      • Struts message resources

      • StrutsMessageResourcesFromDatabase

      • Highlighting error fields

  • ...

  • Using Struts tags, JSTL tags and JSP scriptlets

    • StrutsTags -- notes on using Struts tags

    • StrutsAndJSTL -- how to use JSTL with Struts

    • JSTLTags -- Use JSTL tags instead of Struts "logic" and "bean" tags when possible

      • JSTLTagsBeanMessage -- Using <fmt:message> instead of <bean:message>

      • JSTLTagsNested == Using JSTL, plain HTML or Struts HTML tags instead Struts nested tags

    • StrutsWidgets -- How to create HTML widgets with Struts JSP tag library

    • StrutsHtmlOptionsInternationalization

  • ServingPdfDocuments

• Building Controller Components

  • ...

  • ActionServlet -- how request processing works; using of Commons Chain in Struts 1.3.x

    • RequestProcessor

    • ComposableRequestProcessor

  • ...

  • Struts Navigation

    • StrutsNavigationBasics -- how Struts implements navigation between web resources

    • StrutsJumpToAnchor -- preselecting an anchor on a page

    • StrutsBackButton -- how to fight with Back button issues in Struts applications

    • StrutsSmartNavigation -- how to retain only the last page state in the browser's history

    • StrutsWebIslands -- how to use one URL for a series of views and to improve user experience

  • Action Classes

    • Preconditions

    • Use Base Action

    • Implementing Data Entry Form

    • Using Dispatch Actions

    • Using rollover scope instead of session

    • ActionChaining

  • Developing components with Struts

    • Synchronous component (non-Ajax, full page reload)

    • Dual-mode component (Ajax/non-Ajax)

  • StrutsWhyOnlyOneInstanceOfActionClass -- this discussion has mostly historic value for Struts 1

  • Updloading/dowloading files

    • StrutsFileUpload

    • StrutsFileDownload

  • Web services

    • StrutsWebService -- insiights on building web services with Struts

  • ForwardingWithDifferentParameter

  • ...

• Configuring Applications

  • StrutsInitialization - How to initialize your business logic or read configuiration files, etc...

  • StrutsPlugins

  • StrutsReloadingConfig

  • WildcardsForActionMappings -- How to use advance wildcards

• Security

  • ApplicationSecurity

  • StrutsCatalogHidingPagesUnderWEBINF

  • BrowserBackAndSecurity

• Getting Started

  • Release Notes

  • Installation

    • ServletVersions

    • Struts quick start tutorial

  • Running

    • Logging in Struts

  • Upgrading

    • Notes on Upgrading

• StrutsTerminology

• Common Errors

  • ErrorCannotRetrieveMappingForAction

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Developer Guide

• Nested Tags

FAQs

• StrutsDocNewbie

• StrutsDocHelping

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Howto Guides

• StrutsDocActionForm

• StrutsDocBuildingApps

• StrutsDocDatabase

• StrutsDocIndexed

• StrutsDocSSL

• StrutsUpgrade - notes on upgrading

• StrutsDocTiles

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