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Welcome Pages

• StrutsDocIndex
• StrutsDocLearning
• StrutsDocAcquiring
• StrutsDocUsing
• StrutsDocVolunteers
• StrutsDocStatus (roadmap)
• StrutsDocReleases

JavaDocs

• Struts 1.3.9 ?doesn't exist?
• Struts 1.3.8
  
• Struts 1.2.9
• Struts 1.2.8
• Struts 1.2.7

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
    
    
    
    

Developer Guide

• Nested Tags

FAQs

• StrutsDocNewbie
• StrutsDocHelping

Howto Guides

• StrutsDocActionForm
• StrutsDocBuildingApps
• StrutsDocDatabase
• StrutsDocIndexed
• StrutsDocSSL
• StrutsUpgrade - notes on upgrading
• StrutsDocTiles

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