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 1. Intro: Jakarta Struts 1.2 Overview, Pros, Cons, Installation, and Setup
 2. Processing Requests with Action Objects
 3. Handling Request Parameters with Form Beans
 4. Prepopulating and Redisplaying Input Forms
 5. Using Properties Files (Resource Bundles) & Internationalizing Jakarta Struts Applications
 6. Using DispatchAction and Other Advanced Action Classes
 7. Declarative Exception Handling
 8. Manually Validating User Input
 9. Automatically Validating User Input
10. Composing Pages with Tiles
11. Using the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) with Jakarta Struts
12. Using the JSP 2.0 Expression Language with Jakarta Struts
13. Review/Background Training Materials
14. Exercises
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Jakarta Struts (Action Framework)

Tutorial and Training Materials

This tutorial is derived from Marty Hall's world-renowned live Jakarta Struts training course. Note that the course (and this tutorial) now covers Struts 1.2. The course is usually taught on-site at customer locations, but servlet, JSP, Struts, and JSF training courses at public venues are periodically scheduled for people with too few developers for an onsite course. For descriptions of the various other courses that are available, please see the servlet, JSP, Struts, and JSF training course page. To inquire about a customized training course at your location, please contact Marty at hall@coreservlets.com. Courses on servlets, JSP, JSF, Shale, Hibernate, and Java programming also available.

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Intro: Jakarta Struts 1.2 Overview, Pros, Cons, Installation, and Setup

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Source Code:

• struts-blank.zip.
  The struts-blank Web app from the Struts 1.2 distribution. Use this as the starting point for your own Struts apps. R-click to download it.
  

Processing Requests with Action Objects

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Source Code:

• struts-actions.zip.
  The struts-actions Web app, used for the examples in this section of the Struts tutorial. Note that this file is quite large because it replicates the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib. It will be much faster to download the stripped-down version (see below).
  
• struts-actions-minus-jars.zip.
  The struts-actions Web app with the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib removed. If you have the Struts 1.2 version of struts-blank, download this smaller version of struts-actions and then copy all JAR files from struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib to struts-actions/WEB-INF/lib (or use your server's location for shared JAR files).
  

Handling Request Parameters with Form Beans

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Source Code:

• struts-beans.zip.
  The struts-beans Web app, used for the examples in this section of the Struts tutorial. Note that this file is quite large because it replicates the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib. It will be much faster to download the stripped-down version (see below).
  
• struts-beans-minus-jars.zip.
  The struts-beans Web app with the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib removed. If you have the Struts 1.2 version of struts-blank, download this smaller version of struts-beans and then copy all JAR files from struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib to struts-actions/WEB-INF/lib (or use your server's location for shared JAR files).
  

Prepopulating and Redisplaying Input Forms

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Source Code:

• signup.zip.
  The signup Web app, used for the examples in this section of the Struts tutorial. Note that this file is quite large because it replicates the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib. It will be much faster to download the stripped-down version (see below).
  
• signup-minus-jars.zip.
  The signup Web app with the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib removed. If you have the Struts 1.2 version of struts-blank, download this smaller version of signup and then copy all JAR files from struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib to signup/WEB-INF/lib (or use your server's location for shared JAR files).
  

Using Properties Files (Resource Bundles) and Internationalizing Jakarta Struts Applications

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Source Code:

• struts-messages.zip.
  The struts-messages Web app, used for the examples in this section of the Struts tutorial. Note that this file is quite large because it replicates the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib. It will be much faster to download the stripped-down version (see below).
  
• struts-messages-minus-jars.zip.
  The struts-messages Web app with the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib removed. If you have the Struts 1.2 version of struts-blank, download this smaller version of struts-messages and then copy all JAR files from struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib to struts-messages/WEB-INF/lib (or use your server's location for shared JAR files).
  

Using DispatchAction and Other Advanced Action Classes

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Source Code:

• advanced-actions.zip.
  The advanced-actions Web app, used for the examples in this section of the Struts tutorial. Note that this file is quite large because it replicates the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib. It will be much faster to download the stripped-down version (see below).
  
• advanced-actions-minus-jars.zip.
  The struts-advanced-actions Web app with the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib removed. If you have the Struts 1.2 version of struts-blank, download this smaller version of advanced-actions and then copy all JAR files from struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib to advanced-actions/WEB-INF/lib (or use your server's location for shared JAR files).
  

Declarative Exception Handling

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Source Code:

• struts-errors.zip.
  The struts-errors Web app, used for the examples in this section of the Struts tutorial. Note that this file is quite large because it replicates the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib. It will be much faster to download the stripped-down version (see below).
  
• struts-errors-minus-jars.zip.
  The struts-errors Web app with the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib removed. If you have the Struts 1.2 version of struts-blank, download this smaller version of struts-actions and then copy all JAR files from struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib to struts-errors/WEB-INF/lib (or use your server's location for shared JAR files).
  

Manually Validating User Input

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Source Code:

• chooseFormat.zip.
  The four chooseFormatX Web apps, used for the examples in this section of the Strut tutorial. Note that this file is quite large because it replicates the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib. It will be much faster to download the stripped-down version (see below).
  
• chooseFormat-minus-jars.zip.
  The four chooseFormatX Web apps, with the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib removed. If you have the Struts 1.2 version of struts-blank, download this smaller version of chooseFormat* and then copy all JAR files from struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib to chooseFormatX/WEB-INF/lib (or use your server's location for shared JAR files).
  

Automatically Validating User Input

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Source Code:

• orders.zip.
  The orders Web app, used for the examples in this section of the Strut tutorial. Note that this file is quite large because it replicates the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib. It will be much faster to download the stripped-down version (see below).
  
• orders-minus-jars.zip.
  The orders Web app with the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib removed. If you have the Struts 1.2 version of struts-blank, download this smaller version of orders and then copy all JAR files from struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib to orders/WEB-INF/lib (or use your server's location for shared JAR files).
  

Composing Pages with Tiles

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Source Code:

• e-boats.zip.
  The two e-boatsX Web apps, used for the examples in this section of the Strut tutorial. Note that this file is quite large because it replicates the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib. It will be much faster to download the stripped-down version (see below).
  
• e-boats-minus-jars.zip.
  The two e-boatsX Web apps, with the JAR files from WEB-INF/lib removed. If you have the Struts 1.2 version of struts-blank, download this smaller version of e-boats and then copy all JAR files from struts-blank/WEB-INF/lib to e-boatsX/WEB-INF/lib (or use your server's location for shared JAR files).
  

Using the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) with Jakarta Struts

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Using the JSP 2.0 Expression Language with Jakarta Struts

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Review/Background Training Materials

Servlet and JSP Review

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Using JavaBeans Components in JSP Pages

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The MVC Architecture (Traditional Implementation With RequestDispatcher)

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Exercises

Practice Exercises

Sample problems used in Marty's Jakarta Struts Training courses.

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