This intense, practical 4-day Struts 2 training course has been designed and developed by James Holmes. James is a long-time Struts project committer, creator of Struts Console and author of Struts 2: The Complete Reference and Struts: The Complete Reference, both from McGraw-Hill Osborne. James also co-authored JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference for McGraw-Hill Osborne and has written numerous articles on Java Web development for Oracle Magazine.

This Struts 2 training course is a step-by-step introduction to the hottest new Web development framework for Java. Lectures are reinforced by several labs designed to explore common problems and best practice solutions. This course is intended for developers who want field-tested advice on how to get your applications working the “Struts 2 Way”.

Day 1: Introduction

• Course Introduction
• An Introduction to MVC and Struts 2
• Building a Simple Struts 2 Application
• Configuring Struts 2
• web.xml
• struts.xml
• struts.properties
• Zero Configuration

Day 2: The Controller Layer

• Developing Actions
• Working with Interceptors
• Results and Result Types
• Data Validation and Conversion
• Declarative Exception Handling

Day 3: The View Layer

• UI Components / Tag Library / Themes
• Valuestack / Expression Language (OGNL)
• Resource Bundles / Internationalization

Day 4: Applying and Extending Struts 2

• Plugins
• AJAX
• Best Practices
• Course Summary