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Developing Web applications using Struts

Apache Struts is an instance of a servlet/JSP model-view-controller (MVC) framework. Apache Struts provides an open source framework useful in building Web applications with Java servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. In addition, Struts encourages application architectures based on the MVC design paradigm.

In this chapter, we explore the tooling support found in Rational Application Developer Version v7.5 for Apache Struts.

The chapter is organized into the following sections:

Introduction to Struts

Preparing for the sample application

Developing a Web application using Struts

Running the Struts Web application

Developing a Struts Web application using Tiles

The sample code for this chapter is in 7672code\struts.

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