This course introduces the students to Jakarta Struts 1.1. During the course, students will learn to design and develop Struts based applications. Students learn how to incorporate JSPs, servlets, EJBs and JavaBeans into their design. Corresponding to every chapter, there is a lab reinforcing the concept. Towards the end of the course, the students get to apply their Struts knowledge to build a mini e-commerce application.

• A good understanding of HTML. 
• A good understanding of object-oriented programming using Java. 
• Experience with JSPs and Servlets with some understanding of JavaBeans or EJBs.

• Understand and explain the Jakarta Struts framework
• Design and build Struts based applications

• Struts Architecture and Overview
• A Simple Struts Application
• Struts Development Cycle
• Struts Tag Libraries
• Struts Extensions, Internationalization, Error Handling and Logging
• Miscellaneous Advanced Features such as Validators and DynaActionForm
• Database Programming
• Templates and Tiles
• Unit Testing Struts Applications – StrutsTestCase
• JSTL 

This course is intended for programmers and designers who want to design and develop applications using the Jakarta Struts Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework.

An e-commerce application that allows a customer to proceed from home page to checkout. The application will resemble the retail e-commerce applications such as the amazon.com bookstore.