
Jakarta Struts 1.1
Ready for Prime Time
Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG)
August 20 2002
Chuck Cavaness

Speaker Introductions
Senior Technologist (S1 Corporation)
Co-Author of Special Edition EJB 2.0
Co-Author of Special Edition Java 2
Technical Editor on Various J2EE Books including
Special Edition JSP and Servlets, Special Edition
J2EE, WebServices and WebLogic 7.0
Articles for JavaWorld, InformIT, etc.
Struts developer and user since the beginning
Built several large J2EE Struts-based apps
Author of Jakarta Struts from O’Reilly

Presentation Goals
Introduce Struts from 5,280 ft
Introduce the Struts 1.1 features
Highlight the steps for developing a Struts
application
Subliminally emphasize the importance and
benefit of using a framework like Struts

Presentation Goals (continued)
No software to push
No financial ties to the framework
Purely Altruistic purpose
Buy my book!

What is Struts?
An open source development framework for
building web applications
Based on Model-View-Controller (MVC)
design paradigm
Implementation of JSP Model 2 Architecture
Created by Craig McClanahan and donated
to Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in
2000
2nd release candidate of version 1.1 released