Slide deck from "Modern Web Applications with Struts 2" at ApacheConEU 2012 Sinsheim, by Johannes Geppert and me. The corresponding code example can be found at GitHub: https://github.com/jogep/struts2-todo-examples

1. Modern Webapplication
Development
with
Apache Struts 2
René Gielen Johannes Geppert
@rgielen @jogep

2. René Gielen Johannes Geppert
@rgielen @jogep

3. Struts ?

4. Struts ?
WTF ?

5. Theframework our
forefathers used to use... ?

6. no - it’s Struts

7. it’s not the old
crap

8. It’s shiny
new!

9. So what?

10. the Common stuff

11. Request

12. Response

13. Model

14. View

15. Controller

16. Front Controller

17. Unique features

18. Action based

19. the Action is the
Controller ...

20. ... and the “nearest”
part of the Model,
represented by ...

21. ... a Stack
the Value
Stack

22. actually the
Front Controller
is not monolithic...

23. ... it’s a set of
customizable
stacks of
Interceptors

24. use pre-packaged
Interceptors ...

25. ... or write your own

26. Views are not
really Views ...

27. active,
... they are
versatile and semantic
Results

28. flexible and clean
architecture

29. a lot of
sweet spots

30. Plugin System

31. Validation
i18n / l10n
Freemarker AJAX
big bunch of
solutions PDF
Binding
GUI Controls
JSON
Type Conversion

32. Validation
on
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i18n / l10n
g ..
Freemarker
d er
GUI Controls
lsolutions
u ev
bunchbig of
o r
c o
Binding AJAX
f
PDF
JSON
Type Conversion

33. but let’s get our
hands dirty!

34. Questions

35. keep contact!
René Gielen Johannes Geppert
rgielen@apache.org jogep@apache.org
twitter.com/rgielen struts.apache.org twitter.com/jogep
http://github.com/jogep/struts2-todo-examples

36. Pictures - Thanks!
1. René Gielen 15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/saxonmoseley/288756155/
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/heatherbuckley/5634797251/ 16. René Gielen
3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/4147026190/ 17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/popculturegeek/4940984992/
4. René Gielen 18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lameazoid/123708740/
5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/aldorado/456990064/ 19. René Gielen
6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickyc/4333575635/ 20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/catsincharge/2688361368/
sizes/l/
7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/buchsammy/5209478239/
21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rottnapples/5465017033/
8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/altemark/337248947/
22. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikepd/3344546043/
9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcnickerson/4903123068/
23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/6910554727/
10. René Gielen
24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshheumann/2540258091/
11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/3296379139/
25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/an_untrained_eye/
12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marine_corps/8002881829/ 6630719431/
13. iStockPhoto 26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/druidic/7146712075/
14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/krancien/2457409222/ 27. René Gielen