Enroll now in our Struts Training Course to gain practical, job-ready skills through live interactive classes, real-time projects, and personalized mentorship. The course is fully aligned with modern Java enterprise practices, empowering you to build, manage, and deploy scalable web applications efficiently using Apache Struts.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of Java programming
- Familiarity with Servlets and JSP
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript
- Basic knowledge of SQL and databases
What Will You Learn
- Overview of Java Web Applications and frameworks
- Web application models: Model1, Model2 (MVC) architecture
- Struts architecture: ActionServlet, RequestProcessor, configuration files (web.xml, struts-config.xml)
- Configuring the application: struts-config, global & local forwards
- Working with HTML forms and Struts ActionForms
- Mapping form beans to actions and the model
- Preventing double submission
- Exception handling: local vs global exceptions, programmatic vs declarative approach
- Exploring built-in/pre-defined Action classes: ForwardAction, IncludeAction, DispatchAction, LookupDispatchAction, etc.
- Best practices and “what to watch out for” in Struts 1.x
- Differences between Struts 1.x and Struts 2.x: architecture, core concepts
- Core components (Struts 2): FilterDispatcher (or newer equivalent), ValueStack, ActionContext, Interceptors, OGNL (Object Graph Navigation Language)
- Execution flow in Struts 2: request → interceptor stack → action → result
- Understanding and implementing Interceptors: params, modelDriven, custom interceptors
- Tiles2 (or equivalent layout framework) with Struts 2
