Professional Struts Applications: Building Web Sites with Struts, Object Relational Bridge, Lucene, and Velocity - Softcover

John Carnell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861007817 ISBN 13: 9781861007810

Publisher: Apress, 2003

Synopsis

Building web applications that are maintainable and extensible requires a significant amount of design and planning before even a single line of code can be written. However, by leveraging pre-written development frameworks, a development team can reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy an application, while at the same time promoting reuse. Traditionally, development frameworks required significant amounts of time and energy to implement. The alternative to implementing a framework was to purchase one, but this was often an expensive option that required a significant commitment to one software vendor.

Open source software has changed all of this. There are now several freely available Java development frameworks that can be used for developing web applications. These frameworks are straightforward to use, and because you have ready access to the frameworks' source code, they are also easy to customize for any organization's environment.

This book acts as a roadmap that will demonstrate how to use Jakarta development frameworks to solve everyday web application development challenges. Using our unique Problem-Design-Solution approach we will explore how the development frameworks from the Jakarta project, such as Struts, Velocity, Lucene, Cactus, and ObjectRelationalBridge can be used to develop web applications.

For each problem, the books discusses the solution's design and then how to implement it using the relevant framework. The problem domains covered include: Navigation, Screen layout, Form Validation, Business Rules, and Persistence.

About this title

From the Publisher

Open Source development frameworks, such as Struts, finally free developers from spending a large part of their time writing 'infrastructure' code for their applications. Instead they can focus on what is important: writing applications that add value to their organizations.

This book will provide a roadmap for how to combine many of the Apache Jakarta Group's Java open source technologies together into a powerful development framework for quickly delivering real-world solutions for their organizations.

From the Author

Individuals who are looking at this book, should realize that they will not get a detailed examination of every aspect of the frameworks we are covering. To cover each of these frameworks in full detail would require several books. Instead, the author(s) goal in writing this book is to:

Introduce each of the different frameworks with enough detail so that the reader can begin working with them immediately. The reality is that most people only gain a true mastery of a technology by using it. This book was written to help a developer gain enough insight so that they "jumpstart" their use of these technologies.

Use code as our roadmap. Code is the language all developers speak. This book places a heavy emphasis on code examples. The examples are straightforward and can easily be applied to your own projects.

Share our personal experiences. Being successful with Open Source development frameworks goes beyond just the technology. The authors blended their own experiences together to provide insights in how to build a business case for using Open Source technologies within your organization. In addition, the authors explore some common mistakes developers make when using open source development frameworks for this first time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1861007817
• ISBN 13: 9781861007810
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 318