Struts
UNIT-V
By:- Navin Kumar Goyal
Asstt. Professor
C.S. Department
Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur
What is Struts?
Struts Frame work is the
implementation of Model-View-
Controller (MVC) design pattern
for the JSP. Struts is maintained as
a part of Apache Jakarta project
and is open source. Struts
Framework is suited for the
application of any size.
What is Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Architecture?
- Model-View-Controller architecture is all about dividing
application components into three different categories
Model, View and the Controller. Components of the MVC
architecture has unique responsibility and each component
is independent of the other component. Changes in one
component will have no or less impact on other component.
Responsibilities of the components are: -
What is Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Architecture?
- Model: Model is responsible for providing the
data from the database and saving the data into the
data store. All the business logic are implemented in
the Model. Data entered by the user through View are
check in the model before saving into the database.
Data access, Data validation and the data saving logic
are part of Model. -
What is Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Architecture?
- View: View represents the user view of the
application and is responsible for taking the input from
the user, dispatching the request to the controller and
then receiving response from the controller and
displaying the result to the user. HTML, JSPs, Custom
Tag Libraries and Resources files are the part of view
component. -
What is Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Architecture?
- Controller: Controller is intermediary between
Model and View. Controller is responsible for
receiving the request from client. Once request is
received from client it executes the appropriate
business logic from the Model and then produce the
output to the user using the View component.
ActionServlet, Action, ActionForm and struts-
[Link] are the part of Controller. –
Installing Struts Application
Download latest version of Struts from the official site of
Struts[Link] the file ito your
favorite directory and copy [Link],struts-
[Link] and [Link] from "jakarta-
struts-1.1\webapps" directtory into "jakarta-tomcat-5.0.4\
webapps" directory. - -
[Link] is the blank struts application which is useful
in creating struts application from scratch. We will use this file
to create our web application. -
[Link] contains API and important
documents for the struts application development. -
[Link] is simple MailReader Demonstration
Application.