Hour 21. Using Struts and JavaServer Faces

What You'll Learn in This Hour:

• The basics of Apache Struts

• The different components of Struts

• The basics of JavaServer Faces

• The different components of JavaServer Faces

• The relation between Struts and JavaServer Faces

This hour introduces the Apache Struts Web application framework, which is being adopted very widely as the standard implementation of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture discussed in Hour 20. You will learn about the basic building blocks of Struts and then build a small application that uses this framework.

In the latter part of this hour, you will learn about the JavaServer Faces (JSF) and how JSF and Struts work together. The example used for Struts will be modified to leverage JavaServer Faces.