3. Workshop Agenda
Day 1
1.Understanding Struts2
2.Architecture of Struts2
3.Features of Struts2
4.Environment Setup
5.Understanding Configuration of Project
5. Understanding Struts2
•Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for
creating enterprise-ready Java web applications.
•The framework is designed to streamline the full
development cycle, from building, to deploying, to
maintaining applications over time.
•To make web development easier for the developers.
9. Request Life Cycle
• User sends a request to the server for requesting for
some resource (i.e pages).
• The FilterDispatcher looks at the request and then
determines the appropriate Action.
• Configured interceptors functionalities applies such as
validation, file upload etc.
10. • Selected action is executed to perform the
requested operation.
• Again, configured interceptors are applied to do any
post-processing if required.
• Finally the result is prepared by the view and returns
the result to the user.
11. Features of Struts2
• POJO forms and POJO actions
• Tag Support
• AJAX Support
• Easy Integration
12. Features continued…
• Template Support
• Plugin Support
• Profiling
• Easy to modify tags
• Promote less configuration
• View Technologies (JSP, Velocity, Freemarker,etc)
15. Create an Action Class
public class Student
{
private String fullName;
public String execute() throws Exception {
return "success";
}
public String getFullName() {
return name;
}
public void setFullName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
16. Create View
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Team Go Getters</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello,
We are glad to have <s:property value=”fullName"/> as our
student.
</body>
</html>
17. Create a launch page
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Struts2 Workshop</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to Team Go Getters</h1>
<form action=”welcome">
<label for="name">Please enter your name</label><br/>
<input type="text" name=”fullName"/>
<input type="submit" value=”Enroll"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
18. Configuration Files
Struts.xml file
•Mapping between URL ,Action classes and Result Types
(View)
•Since Struts 2 requires struts.xml to be present in classes
folder.
• So create struts.xml file under the WebContent/WEB-
INF/classes folder.
23. Interceptors
• Providing preprocessing logic before the action is
called.
• Providing post-processing logic after the action is
called.
• Catching exceptions so that alternate processing can
be performed.
24. List of Interceptors
• timer
• params
• checkbox
• createSession
• logger
• fileUpload
• scope
• alias
26. Result and Result Types
• <results> tag plays the role of a view in the Struts2 MVC
framework. The action is responsible for executing the
business logic. The next step after executing the business logic
is to display the view using the <results> tag.
• Struts comes with a number of predefined result types and
whatever we've already seen that was the default result type
dispatcher, which is used to dispatch to JSP pages. Struts
allow you to use other markup languages for the view
technology to present the results and popular choices include
Velocity, Freemaker, XSLT and Tiles.
29. JDBC is going obsolete?
• Complex if it is used in large projects
• Large programming overhead
• No encapsulation
• Hard to implement MVC concept
• Query is DBMS specific
31. Hibernate: ORM
• Hibernate is a high-performance Object/Relational
persistence and query service
• Hibernate takes care of the mapping from Java classes to
database tables
• Hibernate data query and retrieval facilities
32. ORM New Generation
1. Let business code access objects rather than DB tables.
2. Hides details of SQL queries from OO logic.
3. Based on JDBC 'under the hood’
4. No need to deal with the database implementation.
33. ORM New Generation…
5. Entities based on business concepts rather than
database structure.
6. Transaction management and automatic key
generation.
7. Fast development of application.
