Struts Course Updated

July 10, 2007. Object Innovations today released a major update to its course on the Apache Struts Web framework. Course 114, "The Struts Framework", now teaches Struts version 1.3. This means all course discussions and software build to the latest Struts release and that the course covers several new Struts features:

• Wildcards and extensions in Struts configuration
• The ComposableRequestProcessor and configurable command chains
• Enhancements to the Struts Validator

The course is also streamlined to focus on some of the most valuable development techniques:

• Form-based and mapping-based validation
• Managing indexed properties for tabular input/output forms
• Using role-based security to control access to Struts actions
• Using LookupDispatchAction to support multi-button forms

The course provides the first of our Eclipse WTP 2.0 overlays, allowing straightforward lab work within the Eclipse IDE, automatic deployment to Tomcat 6, and even integrated debugging of Struts Web applications.

Object Innovations plans to release in the fall of 2007 another major revision, which will cover Struts 2.0.

Shipments of the new courseware begin immediately.