Struts Survival Guide: J2ee Survival Series

Basics to Best Practices

Struts is the web application framework of choice for building J2EE applications in the enterprises. This book covers Struts from a practical approach rather than technolo perspective. In addition, it covers the best practices that have emerged in the industry using Struts over the years.

Minor decisions during architecture and design without the complete knowledge of the framework used can impact the project in a big way. Clearly understanding the strengths and shortcomings of a framework and minor customizations to the framework together with best practices go a long way in building cleaner applications. This book is valuable to all those wishing to use Struts effectively in J2EE projects including experienced developers and architects.

In this book you will:

• Understand the basics, strengths and shortcomings of Struts
• Learn which features are important for J2EE projects.
• Learn how to fill the gaps in Struts
• Learn about robust exception handling
• learn how to customize Struts
• Learn Best Practices and Strategies in Struts.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Srikanth Shenoy specializes in the architecture, design, development, and deployment of large J2EE and EAI projects. He has helped clients in the manufacturing, logistics, financial sectors to realize Java's "write once, run anywhere" dream.

Nithin Mallya specializes in providing enterprise solutions for financial clients. He has built transaction intensive systems using various distributed object technologies.