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The original Struts project revolutionized Java web development and its rapid adoption resulted in the thousands of Struts-based applications deployed worldwide. Keeping pace with new ideas and trends, Apache Struts 2 has emerged as the product of a merger between the Apache Struts and OpenSymphony WebWork projects, united in their goal to develop an easy-to-use yet feature-rich framework. Struts 2 represents a revolution in design and ease of use when compared to classic Struts. It adds exciting and powerful features such as a plugin framework, JavaServer Faces integration, and XML-free configuration.

Struts 2 In Action introduces the Apache Struts 2 web application framework and shows you how to quickly develop professional, production-ready modern web applications. Written by Don Brown, one of the leading developers of Struts 2, Chad Davis, a passionate Struts 2 developer, along with Scott Stanlick, this book gently walks you through the key features of Struts 2 in example-driven, easy-to-digest sections.

Struts 2 in Action delivers accurate, seasoned information that can immediately be put to work. This book is designed for working Java web developers-especially those with some background in Struts 1 or WebWork. The core content, covering key framework components such as Actions, Results, and Interceptors, includes new features like the annotation-based configuration options. You'll find chapters on Struts 2 plugins, FreeMarker, and migration from Struts 1 and WebWork 2. Finally, new topics such as the Ajax tags, Spring Framework integration, and configuration by convention give familiar subjects new depth..
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Meet the people who make it their business to create electronic magazines on the web. Here you’ll find an international showcase of e-zine designs that work. Whether translated from print or created purely for online viewing, these e-zines offer standout solutions to the enormous challenge of designing information and holding the reader’s attention online. From mass-media stalwarts, such as Time and Fortune, to renegade upstarts like Suck and Urban 75, WebWorks: e-Zines identifies what makes an e-zine success.

Learn about e-zine structure and design, from start-up and promotion theory to the nuts-and-bolts layout of departments and columns. Discover innovative techniques for enticing readers participation and generating subscriptions. Find common sense tips on navigation, programs, and site architecture.

Packed with advice and inspiration from top e-zine staff, this volume is the essential resource for designers, marketers, and internet enthusiasts around the world. Each case study introduces you to the designers who are inventing the future, giving you a direct pipeline into today’s web world..
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WebWork helps developers build well-designed applications quickly by creating re-usable, modular, web-based applications. WebWork in Action is the first book to focus entirely on WebWork. Like a true "Action" book, it is both a tutorial on WebWork and a sourcebook for its use in demanding, real-world applications. The book goes into considerable depth on how to get desirable web features with WebWork. It uses the same basic (continuing) example as in Manning's Hibernate in Action to show how to integrate WebWork with the popular Hibernate persistance framework.

Although Java was (correctly) touted as the next big programming language, it wasn't until the introduction of J2EE and Servlets that its use really took off. Yet, in spite of the huge popularity of JSPs and Servlets, it was never easy for developers to quickly create re-usable, modular web-based applications. Not long after the introduction of JSPs, WebWork sought to solve those very problems and has been helping thousands of developers ever since. WebWork is a web-application framework used by people who understand that somewhere been "just get it done, no matter how ugly" and "make it perfect" lies their best choice. WebWork helps developers build applications quickly, but its unique design also lets developers build beautifully-designed applications.

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A guide to the topics required for state of the art Web development, this book covers wide-ranging topics, including a variety of web development frameworks and best practices Beginning with coverage of the history of the architecture of Web applications, highlighting the uses of the standard web API to create applications with increasingly sophisticated architectures, developers are led through a discussion on the development of industry accepted best practices for architecture. Described is the history and evolution towards this architecture and the reasons that it is superior to previous efforts. Also provided is an overview of the most popular Web application frameworks, covering their architecture and use. Numerous frameworks exist, but trying to evaluate them is difficult because their documentation stresses their advantages but hides their deficiencies. Here, the same application is built in six different frameworks, providing a way to perform an informed comparison. Also provided is an evaluation of the pros and cons of each framework to assist in making a decision or evaluating a framework on your own. Finally, best practices are covered, including sophisticated user interface techniques, intelligent caching and resource management, performance tuning, debugging, testing, and Web services..
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Set in northern Quebec in 1964, this unusual mystery is the story of Mountie Jack McLain's search for a serial killer--and for a sense of love and belonging--among a people in transition Pressured by southern headquarters to move on the case, he's hampered by formidable terrain and the misdirections of native culture. In counterpoint the story follows the flight of an oppressed young Inuit woman named Nilliq, with a headstrong shaman, Wallin, who is Jack's chief suspect. In April, 1964, Jack faces renewed pressure from his southern headquarters when a recent death adds to a series of baffling murders. He is aided by two young, educated Inuit: Nancy Inukshuk, his secretary and occasional lover, and Jimmy Natsik, his guide and translator. In a hunting camp on the Hudson Bay coast, eighteen-year-old Nilliq faces an oppressive life under the power of her father, Sandlak. The arrival of Wallin, a handsome hunter and shaman, gives her hope of freedom. The inevitable meeting of Wallin and Sandlak has explosive results that propel Wallin, Nilliq, and Jack into a chase across the dangerous tundra to the Ungava coast. The passage becomes a journey of transformation for all concerned; as Nilliq seeks freedom on her terms, and Jack finds his own brand of justice. .
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Discover how to develop full-scale J2EE?TM applications quickly and efficiently using the best Open Source tools

Written by leading authorities in the field, this book shows you how to leverage a suite of best-of-breed Open Source development tools to take the pain out of J2EE and build a complete Web-based application. You'll combine these tools to actually reduce the points of failure in your application, while increasing overall system stability and robustness. Along with the tools introduced here, you'll develop the PetSoar application, which follows the PetStore application used by Sun Microsystems to demonstrate features of J2EE. With PetSoar, the authors focus on developing a maintainable and flexible application, rather than showcasing the end result, so that you can apply the material in your own projects.

In addition, the authors provide methods for utilizing Open Source software components for each stage of the development process.

The Open Source products covered include:
* Hibernate to aid with simple,flexible, and speedy transparent object persistence
* OpenSymphony WebWork to allow for pluggable view technologies and extensible configuration
* JUnit and Mock Objects to assist with rapid and robust unit testing
* XDoclet to assist with generating code and configuration files automatically
* Jakarta Lucene to add Google-style smart search capabilities to data stores
* OpenSymphony SiteMesh to aid in the creation of large sites with a common look and feel
* OpenSymphony OSCache to easily cache slow dynamic sections of Web sites resulting in faster-loading pages.
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Navigation is fundamental to the Web’s dynamic, and more so than ever. With the explosive growth of e-commerce and escalating competition for audiences, how vistors interact with a website, and how well they find their way around, constitutes a critical aspect of the design mission. Because websites provide few of the graphical and textual clues that users have come to take for granted in existing printed information, designers need to learn new navigation strategies and in some cases unlearn old ones. Sites that reward visitors with ease-of-use and instant gratification will succeed. Sites that frustrate users and send them will fail. New rules and new solutions are urgently needed.

WebWorks: Navigation features some 35 projects by many of the leading interactive agencies worldwide, as well as by Web design studios large and small. These cases studies were selected because they best exemplify the latest creative thinking about navigation on the Web. Both designers and people in Internet business will benefit from these accounts..
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With nearly one out of every three internet users making on-line purchases, e-commerce site designers must tread a fine line between utility and aesthetic Pull-down menus, back-end databases, secure servers, limited bandwidth, and brand marketing all must be taken into account while developing a visually pleasing, easy-to-use website. WebWorks: e-Commerce explores and illuminates the balancing act e-commerce designers face when working with often-restrictive technology in a highly competitive marketplace..
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