IT.CappuccinoNet StrutsCX

StrutsCX is Struts with Castor XML and XSLT.

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Description

StrutsCX Core

com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.action	CONTROLLER: StrutsCX action classes.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.actionform	MODEL: StrutsCX ActionForms.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.xslt	VIEW: The StrutsCXServlet and its helper classes replace Struts JSP and Message Ressources features with a pure XML and XSLT solution.

StrutsCX Extentions

com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.persist	StrutsCX data access layer.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.util	StrutsCX utility classes.

StrutsCX Prototype: Info Sample

com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.info.action	CONTROLLER: Actions for the Info sample section demonstration the CRUD cycle (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete).
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.info.actionform	MODEL: ActionForms for the Info sample section.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.info.persist	The classes for managing the persistence.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.info.persist.databean	Castor XML DataBeans for the Info sample section.

StrutsCX is Struts with Castor XML and XSLT.

Features:

• Lightweight framework running on any Servlet Engine or J2EE Application Server.
• Simple and fast to implement.
• Support of internationalization. IS0-8859-1 and any other language, like chinese, korean, arabic, too!
• StrutsCXServlet: Replaces Struts JSP and Message Ressources features with a pure XML and XSLT solution 100% internationalizable.
• Output of 100% standard conform XML, XHTML, XSL-FO, WML or whatever you like.
• Simple validation error mechanism.
• Persists via Castor XML.
• Prototype featuring the CRUD cycle (Create, Reatrieve, Update, Delete) and support for english, german and korean language.

The Struts architecture

The StrutsCX architecture

The main classes are

• com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.xml.StrutsCXServlet - as top of the VIEW:
  This Servlet and its two major helper classes StrutsCXDocumentBuilder and StrutsCXTransformer replaces the JSP part of Struts.
• com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.action.StrutsCXBaseAction - as top of the CONTROLLER:
  This Struts Action handles especially initialization functionalities derived classes will use.

This application provides a protoype allowing user to learn from a complete CRUD cyle (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete). It uses a couple of open source frameworks and standard utilities like Apache Jakarta Struts, XSLT and Castor XML. The data is saved in a XML file.

Data is read out of these XML data files via SAX and JDOM. The whole manipulation cycle of the XML data is handled by a persistence layer which uses Castor XML.