Art of Java Web Development: Struts, Tapestry, Commons, Velocity, Junit, Axis, Cocoon, Internetbeans, Webwork

by Neal Ford

Overview

A guide to the skills required for state-of-the-art web development, this book covers a variety of web development frameworks. The uses of the standard web API to create applications with increasingly sophisticated architectures are highlighted, and a discussion of the development of industry-accepted best practices for architecture is included. The history and evolution toward this architecture and the reasons it is superior to previous efforts are described, and an overview of the most popular web application frameworks, their architecture, and use is provided. The same application is built in six different frameworks, allowing developers to conduct an informed comparison. An evaluation of the pros and cons of each framework is provided to assist developers in making decisions or evaluating frameworks on their own. Best practices covered include sophisticated user interface techniques, intelligent caching and resource management, performance tuning, debugging, testing, and web services.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932394061
Publisher:	Manning
Publication date:	11/01/2003
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.22(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Neal Ford is the chief technology officer at the DSW Group, Ltd. He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video presentations and the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques and JBuilder 3 Unleashed. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Part I	The evolution of web architecture and design	1
1	State-of-the-art web design	3
2	Building web applications	27
3	Creating custom JSP tags	61
4	The Model 2 design pattern	91
Part II	Web frameworks	131
5	Using Struts	133
6	Tapestry	159
7	WebWork	199
8	InternetBeans Express	227
9	Velocity	261
10	Cocoon	283
11	Evaluating frameworks	311
Part III	Best practices	327
12	Separating concerns	329
13	Handling flow	371
14	Performance	409
15	Resource management	445
16	Debugging	475
17	Unit testing	521
18	Web services and Axis	543
19	What won't fit in this book	563