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Java lovers’ gona love it, Check it out.... JavaOne 2013 is apparently being held at Hyderabad this year as well (8-9 May) at the same place guys…. They have also started accepting registrations (check this: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ) I am definitely going to attend the Java One again. Last time I had a chance to help people at NetBeans Booth, thanks to Java One Team for that great favor. I know, Java and NetBeans community will definitely attend this prestigious nd great conference this year too…..

Though I am a beginner in struts but I am putting here my understanding of struts.Struts is a framework and not a technology.The reason why struts is a framework is it isn't bringing any new component. Its basically providing a new framework to handle Projects following MVC framework.Before understanding struts its necessary that you get yourself well acquainted with MVC framework- the model ,view and controller framework.Controller intercepts every user request and sends it to middle tier for further processing, View displays user input and also error pages if for certain reasons a request can't be fulfilled and Model deals with back end i.e database. In a big project if there isn't a clear separation between these 3 categories any modification made to any one of these categories in the future after completion of project or amidst project work can't be done without navigating through the whole project and this is undesirable. Now struts mainly focuses on Controller.All of the core components in it belong to Controller category. A controller mainly provides centralization of logic.If logic for deciding which page to navigate next(like if we go to page A there appears 2 hyperlinks one leading to page B and another to page C.Depending on which page we clicked it either leads us to B or C) is being determined in the present page then the project is truly decentralized and is hard to manage. Now if we centralize our project by using a servlet the following situation happens: If in a medium scale application if say suppose there are 15 JSP pages and each page has again 5 links.Then all total we have got 15*5=75 pages.Now for these 75 pages 75 if blocks will be needed in the doget() method of the Controller class. So now the Controller has turned up to become a really Fat Controller. This fat controller is being replaced with ActionServlet and struts-config.xml.Now within this struts-config.xml one can specify which page will come after a form is submitted or if an error happens which page will be displayed all using just tags.So the bulky code is being replaced with tags in xml and at the same time centralization is achieved as now if one wants to change the user registration page only you have to change the name under the <form-bean> tag.

Hello AstaHoster,I am working on Java Servlet based Web Application. For that i need some suggestion and helps. Generally my application in web browser have address like LOCALHOST:8080/MyApplication/ApplicationClassName/, where MyApplication is the Folder in webapps in which my application is saved.Finally i want to know the way if it is possible to display my web address in browser like http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. I mean to say that, i want to visit web page without including the folder name where my application is saved.Some Java professional suggested me to do this through Context.xml file but due to of little knowledge, i am not able to get succes.Hope, you guys understand what i want to do. So, Please help me.