Struts
(Free Web Tutorials)

by Michael Thomas

Apache Struts is a free open-source framework for creating Java web applications that implement the MVC (Model View Controller) architecture.

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Apache Struts Quotes:

"The Model represents the business or database code, the View represents the page design code, and the Controller represents the navigational code. The Struts framework is designed to help developers create web applications that utilize a MVC architecture. " (quoted from link)

Free Download

• Download - a zip file of the website pertaining to this topic (all content, tutorials, examples, etc...).  Great resource!!!  Work offline!!!

Free Web Tutorials

• Struts 2 - Framework Overview - Overview of Struts2: Architecture, History, etc...

• Struts 2 - First Steps - a Java framework that implements the MVC (Model View Controller).  Download & install struts along with some example web apps.

• Struts 2 & Eclipse - Example Webapps (Free Web Tutorial) - in this tutorial you will setup Eclipse IDE projects so that you can edit and compile the Struts Example webapps that you optionally installed with Struts.

• Struts 2 & Eclipse - First Steps (MyStrutsHelloWorld) - Step by step instructions on how to create your first Web App using the Struts Framework.  Learn the basics of Struts by a hands on example.
• Older Struts Tutorials
  • Struts 1 & Eclipse - First Steps (MyStrutsHelloWorld) - this is an older tutorial.  Step by step instructions on how to create your first Web App using the Struts 1 Framework (Struts 1.2.8 & Tomcat 5.5).  Learn the basics of Struts by a hands on example.
    • Korean version - http://www.java-school.net/struts - from what I've been told thanks to Chong-Hun Kim.
• Topics for future Struts Tutorials:
  • WAR file with examples of working with struts modules, multiple resource files, XML files, DB (MySQL, ODBC), reporting, logging, and forms etc...

Apache Jakarta Project Resources

• http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/index.html - Struts Home Page.  Struts is an open source framework useful in building web applications with Java Servlets and JSP (Java Server Pages).  Follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm (aka Model 2).

Notes

• JSP History
  • Java Servlets - Server side Java that created HTML code which was served to the browser.
  • Module 1 - Use JSP's to create HTML by mixing Java code & HTML.
  • Module 2 (aka MVC - Model View Controller)- Use JSP's & Servlets together.  Use servlets for flow control and JSP's for creating HTML.
  • Struts project was launched in May 2000 by Craig R. McClanahan to provide a standard MVC Java implementation.

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