Introducing Struts FrameWork

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">                            This post will give the basics of the struts framework, its architecture and detail understanding about the basic elements of struts framework. Finally, you will end up with writing the first struts application. After reading this post, you will have an understanding of what the struts framework is, how to write the struts application and configure it. Let’s start now with discussing what is struts and its benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">                            Struts are an open-source web application framework implemented by Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It is one of the efficient and high performance open source implementation of Model 2 based Model-View-Controller (MVC). The Struts framework provides utility classes to handle many of the most common tasks in web application development. It is originally started as a small project by Craig McClanahan in May 2000 but later Craig McClanahan donated it to </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Apache</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> software foundation which is later added with many features that are more commonly required for web application development.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>What is a Frame Work?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Framework is a set of well-defined classes and interfaces that provides services to our application. With a framework, it contains the executing routines and invokes operations onto your extensions through inheritance and other means.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Why we Need of Struts Frame Work?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As you have learnt in this post about the requirement of web application and then further about the two development models for developing web applications where most of the huge enterprise applications are developed following Model 2 architecture, it can be identified that while developing the web applications following such architecture gives number of benefits. However, using the basic web technologi3s like servlets and jsp for developing such a web applications is complicated and contains most of the infrastructure logics that results in increase of the application development cost, development time and further affects the productivity of the application. To Solve these problems we want a readymade solution for the infrastructure logics in developing web applications following Model 2 architecture instead of developing it as a part of out project development, which can reduce the development time and cost, and even improves the performance and productivity of the application. This is where the need for web application frameworks comes and as reply for this requirement one of the solution is given by Apache Software foundation group under the title struts framework. Struts framework has restructured the way that web programmers think about and constructs web application in java.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div> </div>

Introducing Struts FrameWork

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