Basic Struts -- Servlet and JSP Review -- Understanding Scopes -- Custom Tags -- The MVC Design Pattern -- Simple Validation -- Processing Business Logic -- Basic Struts Tags -- Configuring Struts -- More Tags -- Uploading Files -- Internationalization -- Review Lab: Editing Contacts in LILLDEP -- Advanced Struts -- Tiles -- The Validator Framework -- Dynamic Forms -- Potpourri -- Review Lab: The Collection Facility -- Developing Plug-ins -- JavaServer Faces and Struts Shale.

Beginning Apache Struts will provide you a working knowledge of Apache Struts 1.2. This book is ideal for you Java programmers who have some JSP familiarity, but little or no prior experience with Servlet technology. Organized in a condensed tutorial and lab format, the material in this book has been tested in real classroom environments. It takes a step-by-step, hands-on approach to teaching you Struts. The book even previews the next generation of Struts, the Apache Shale. The overall result is that you can quickly apply Struts to your work settings with confidence.