Introduction to Struts Actions

Action classes will be defined to handle requests. Actions exists between the Model and View of an application. This article will cover all of the standard actions and the helper methods of the Action class. read full article

Including Ajax Functionality in a Custom JavaServer Faces Component

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is a technique for making the user interfaces (UI) of web applications more responsive and interactive. Because of its flexible and pluggable UI component model, JavaServer Faces technology is the perfect framework to use when adding Ajax functionality to your applications. With the DOJO JavaScript toolkit, it's even easier for component developers to add this functionality. This tutorial describes how to add the power of Ajax to JavaServer Faces components with some help from the DOJO toolkit.read full article

Integrating Struts With Spring

Struts is more established and more stable MVC2 framework at this time so if your application is based on Struts framework you may forget about thinking to move to some other framework. But at the same time you must have heard about the buzz created by Inversion of Control (IOC) design pattern. This design pattern is implemented by Spring framework. Besides there are some more amazing features of Spring like AOP. So if you like to take advantage of these features of Spring you do not have to rebuild the application, but you can integrate your existing Struts application with Spring without much hassle. More about that latter but first we would like to have a look at new features of Spring and how they work.read the full article>>