Art of Java Web Development: Struts, Tapestry, Commons, Velocity, JUnit, Axis, Cocoon, InternetBeans, WebWork

626 Pages·2003·6.225 MB·English

by  Neal Ford

TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine!
Art of Java
Web Development
TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine!
TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine!
Art of Java
Web Development
STRUTS, TAPESTRY, COMMONS, VELOCITY, JUNIT,
AXIS, COCOON, INTERNETBEANS, WEBWORK
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To Chuck,
who still teaches me stuff daily
TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine!
TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine!
brief contents
PART I THE EVOLUTION OF WEB ARCHITECTURE
AND DESIGN....................................................... 1
1 (cid:1) State-of-the-art web design 3
2 (cid:1) Building web applications 27
3 (cid:1) Creating custom JSP tags 61
4 (cid:1) The Model 2 design pattern 91
PART II WEB FRAMEWORKS ........................................ 131
5 (cid:1) Using Struts 133
6 (cid:1) Tapestry 159
7 (cid:1) WebWork 199
8 (cid:1) InternetBeans Express 227
9 (cid:1) Velocity 261
10 (cid:1) Cocoon 283
11 (cid:1) Evaluating frameworks 311
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viii BRIEF CONTENTS
PART III BEST PRACTICES............................................ 327
12 (cid:1) Separating concerns 329
13 (cid:1) Handling flow 371
14 (cid:1) Performance 409
15 (cid:1) Resource management 445
16 (cid:1) Debugging 475
17 (cid:1) Unit testing 521
18 (cid:1) Web services and Axis 543
19 (cid:1) What won’t fit in this book 563
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contents
preface xvii
acknowledgments xix
about the book xxi
about the cover illustration xxx
PART I THE EVOLUTION OF WEB ARCHITECTURE
AND DESIGN....................................................... 1
1 State-of-the-art web design 3
1.1 A brief history of Java web development 4
1.2 The importance of design patterns 6
The Model-View-Controller design pattern 7 (cid:1) The emergence of
Model 2 9 (cid:1) Evolution 10
1.3 Using frameworks 11
A flavor of the Struts framework 12 (cid:1) A flavor of the Turbine
framework 14 (cid:1) Objectively choosing a framework 20
1.4 Best practices 20
Business rules 20 (cid:1) Where should the rules reside? 22
Leveraging best practices 24
1.5 Summary 25
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