Friday, October 13, 2006


Web Applications designed with Struts 1.2.9 in TomCat 5.5.17



Consider conversion to struts 1.2.9 architecture sample MVC
application bank-suppport (view [2],[1]).
Create directory BankActions129 under deployer folder ([1]) and copy struts-blank.war right there.

Next:-



$ cd *yer/BankActions129
$jar xvf struts-blank.war



Place apps files into subdirectories of BankActions129 as required:-




Convert HttpServlet ShowBalance:-




to Action Servlet with the same name:-




Make required changes to ./WEB-INF/struts-config.xml:-




Make sure ./WEB-INF/web.xml looks like:-




<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
  PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
  "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">

<web-app>
  <display-name>Struts Bank Support Sample </display-name>
  
  <!-- Standard Action Servlet Configuration (with debugging) -->
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>config</param-name>
      <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>debug</param-name>
      <param-value>2</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>detail</param-name>
      <param-value>2</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
    

  <!-- Standard Action Servlet Mapping -->
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

  <!-- The Usual Welcome File List -->
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>


<!-- Struts Tag Library Descriptors --> 
  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-bean</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>

  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-html</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>

  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-logic</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>

  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-nested</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-nested.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>

  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-tiles</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>

</web-app>



Modify starting JSP and run:-








References.
1. http://librenix.com/?inode=9205
2. Core Servlets and JSP ,Marty Hall,Sun Press 2003
Online version:
http://volume1.coreservlets.com/archive/index.html
Chapter 15: Integrating Servlets and JSP:
The Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture

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