The presentation discusses the Struts 2 framework, which is an MVC-based web application development framework initially created in 2000, highlighting its features such as POJO-based actions and AJAX support, and detailing the steps to create a Struts 2 application. Additionally, it covers Hibernate, an ORM tool started in 2001 by Gavin King for simplifying database interactions in Java applications, its advantages, architecture, and steps to create a Hibernate application. References for further reading are provided at the end of the document.

1. A PRESENTATION ON
STRUTS & HIBERNATE
TUSHAR CHOUDHARY
B.TECH COMPUTER SCIENCE 4TH YEAR
GOVT. ENGG. COLLEGE BIKANER
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2. What is Struts ?
 The struts 2 framework is used to develop MVC-based web application.
 The struts framework was initially created by Craig McClanahan and donated
to Apache Foundation in May, 2000 and Struts 1.0 was released in June 2001.
 The current stable release of Struts2 is 2.3.15.1 GA in July 16, 2013. [1]
Struts 2 Framework
 Struts 2 are the combination of web work framework of opensymphony and
struts 1.
 struts2 = webwork + struts1
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3. Struts2 Features
Struts 2 provide many features that were not in struts 1. The important features of struts 2
framework are as follows: [2]
 Configurable MVC components
 POJO based actions
 AJAX support
 Integration support
 Various Result Types
 Various Tag support
 Theme and Template support
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4. Struts 2 Architecture
The Model-View-Controller pattern in Struts2 is realized with following five core
components: [2]
 Actions
 Interceptors
 Value Stack / OGNL
 Results / Result types
 View technologies
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5. Flow Diagram
Fig. 1 Model View Controller [1]
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6. Advantage of Model 2 (MVC) Architecture
 Navigation control is centralized.
 Easy to maintain
 Easy to extend
 Easy to test
 Better separation of concerns [3]
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7. Steps to create Struts 2 Application
 Create the directory structure
 Create input page (index.jsp)
 Provide the entry of Controller in (web.xml) file
 Create the action class (Product.java)
 Map the request with the action in (struts.xml) file and define the view components
 Create view components (welcome.jsp)
 load the jar files
 start server and deploy the project [3]
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8. Flow Diagram
Fig.2 Directory Structure [2]
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9. Struts 2 Architecture and Flow
 Struts 2 basic Architecture
Fig. 3 Struts 2 basic Architecture [3]
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10. Struts2 Standard Architecture
Fig. 4 Structs 2 Standard Architecture [4]
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11. What is Hibernate?
 Hibernate Framework
 This hibernate was started in 2001 by Gavin King as an alternative to EJB2 style entity
bean. The stable release of Hibernate till July 16, 2014, is hibernate 4.3.6.
 It simplifies the development of java application to interact with the database. Hibernate
is an open source, lightweight, ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool.
 An ORM tool simplifies the data creation, data manipulation and data access. It is a
programming technique that maps the object to the data stored in the database. [5]
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12. Flow Diagram
Fig. 5 Flow Diagram [5]
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13. Advantages of Hibernate Framework
 Open source and Lightweight
 Fast performance
 Database Independent query
 Automatic table creation
 Simplifies complex join
 Provides query statistics and database status [5]
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14. Hibernate Architecture
Fig.7 This is the high level architecture of Hibernate with
mapping file and configuration file. [5]
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15. Flow Diagram
Fig.8 Hibernate framework uses many objects session factory,
session [6]
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16. Steps to create Hibernate Application
Create the hibernate application without IDE. we need to follow following steps:
 Create the Persistent class
 Create the mapping file for Persistent class
 Create the Configuration file
 Create the class that retrieves or stores the persistent object
 Load the jar file
 Run the hibernate application without IDE [6]
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17. References
 http://www.javatpoint.com/struts-2-tutorial
 https://struts.apache.org/
 http://www.tutorialspoint.com/struts_2/
 http://www.javatpoint.com/hibernate-tutorial
 http://www.tutorialspoint.com/hibernate/
 http://hibernate.org/
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