IT.CappuccinoNet StrutsCX

StrutsCX is Struts with Castor XML and XSLT.

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Description

StrutsCX Core

com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.xslt

This package contains classes which replace Struts JSP and Message Ressources features with a pure XML and XSLT solution.

StrutsCX Commons

com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.exceptions	StrutsCX exception classes.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.util	StrutsCX utility classes.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.validator	The validator package provides a series of classes to validate ActionForm type of input.

StrutsCX Prototype

com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.action	StrutsCX Action classes.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.actionform	StrutsCX ActionForm classes.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.business	The classes of the business tier.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.integration	The classes of the integration tier.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.integration.data.castor.info	Castor XML DataBeans for the Info sample application.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.integration.data.entity.info	NOT YET IMPLEMENTED!
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.presentation.action	The Struts Action implementations.
com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.prototype.presentation.actionform	The Struts ActionForm implementations.

StrutsCX is Struts with Castor XML and XSLT.

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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.
• StrutsCXBaseAction - as top of the CONTROLLER:
  This Struts Action handles especially initialization functionalities derived classes will use.

Here an overview over the StrutsCX packages:

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.

The StrutsCX prototype layered architectural concept (Version 0.8)

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.

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