Pro Apache Struts with Ajax

Cover -- Contents -- About the Authors -- About the Editor -- About the Technical Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- Preface for This Edition -- Preface from Previous Edition -- CHAPTER 1 What We Do Wrong: Web Antipatterns Explained -- What This Book Is About -- What This Chapter Is About -- Challenges of Web Application Development -- Enterprise Services -- Application Services -- An Introduction to Patterns and Antipatterns -- Web Application Antipatterns -- Concern Slush -- Tier Leakage -- Hardwired -- Validation Confusion -- Tight-Skins -- Data Madness -- Antipatterns, JOS Frameworks, and Economics -- The JavaEdge Application -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2 Struts Fundamentals -- The JavaEdge Application Architecture -- The Design -- Using Struts to Implement the MVC Pattern -- Getting Started: The JavaEdge Source Tree -- The Power of the Command Pattern -- Constructing the Presentation Tier -- The JavaEdge Home Page -- Bean Tags -- Logic Tags -- Iteration Tags -- Conditional Tags -- Movement Tags -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3 Form Presentation and Validation with Struts -- Problems with Form Validation -- Using Struts for Form Validation -- Implementing Form Validation with Struts -- The struts-config.xml File -- Struts ActionForm Class -- Prepopulating an ActionForm with Data -- Another Technique for Prepopulation -- Prepopulating a Form the Correct Way -- Validating the Form Data -- The Struts HTML Tag Library -- Setting Up a Struts HTML Form -- Using Text and TextArea Input Fields -- Drop-Down Lists, Checkboxes, and Radio Buttons -- Building More Dynamic ActionForms -- ActionForms and Business Logic -- Summary -- CHAPTER 4 Managing Business Logic with Struts -- Business Logic Antipatterns and Struts -- Concern Slush and Struts -- Tier Leakage and Struts -- Separating Business Logic from Struts -- Implementing the Design Patterns -- Implementing the Business Delegate Pattern -- Implementing the Service Locator Pattern -- The Service Locator Revisited -- EJBs and Struts -- Handling Exceptions in the Action Class -- Exception Handling in Struts 1.0.x -- Exception Handling in Struts 1.1 and Later -- Rewriting the ApplicationException Class -- Setting Up the struts-config.xml File -- Writing a Custom ExceptionHandler -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5 Architecting the Data Access Tier with ObjectRelationalBridge -- Developing a Data Access Strategy -- The JavaEdge Data Access Model -- Value Objects -- The JavaEdge Value Objects -- Using an O/R Mapping Tool -- Setting Up the Object/Relational Mappings -- Which Sequence Manager to Use? -- OJB in Action -- Retrieving Data: A Simple Example -- Retrieving Data: A More Complicated Example -- Storing Data Using OJB -- Deleting Data with OJB -- Bringing It All Together -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6 Building Flexible Front-Ends with the Tiles Framework -- What Is the Tiles Framework? -- Enabling Struts Version 1.1 to Use Tiles -- Configuring the Tiles Plug-In -- The tiles-defs.xml File -- Adding the Tiles TLDs -- Your First Tiles Template -- What Are Tiles Definitions? -- Tiles Definitions: A JSP-Based Approach -- Overriding the Attribute Values in a Tiles Definition.