Re: Very confusing documentation

2016-09-20 Thread Dave Newton
S2 is completely unlike S1 in almost every respect. S1 was EOLed some time ago. Your best bet is to get some used books from Amazon if you need to maintain the existing app. Hopefully it's well-structured enough that if you go the S2 route you'll only Haber to deal with the web-to-business logic l

Re: Very confusing documentation

2016-09-20 Thread Sreekanth S. Nair
Hi Joseph, Would you like to understand the MVC architecture or to understand the Struts 1 framework. I would recommend, you can kindly go though the following link. http://www.raistudies.com/struts-1/architecture-of-struts-1-mvc-framework/ http://www.roseindia.net/struts/Struts-

Re: Very confusing documentation

2016-09-20 Thread Joseph B Cotton
Christoph Thanks again for the nice reply. Here is the reason that I am looking at Struts. I am an applications programmer in a government office. Among my other (main) duties, I was assigned to be "backup" to another employee. I was shown how to restart the app, and to do some minor database m

Re: Very confusing documentation

2016-09-20 Thread Christoph Nenning
> > OK, the View does not send the message back to the user. Instead, the > Controller does that. > > So the Controller receives the HTTP message, sends it to the Handler, the > Handler processes it and hands it back to the Controller. The Controller > passes the message to the Model, which d

Re: Very confusing documentation

2016-09-19 Thread Joseph B Cotton
OK, the View does not send the message back to the user. Instead, the Controller does that. So the Controller receives the HTTP message, sends it to the Handler, the Handler processes it and hands it back to the Controller. The Controller passes the message to the Model, which does processing, a

Re: Very confusing documentation

2016-09-19 Thread Dave Newton
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Joseph B Cotton wrote: > "... and they're more or less in the right order. ..." > > Not really. But thank you for the nice reply. The issue here is that my > understanding is no better with your explanation. > I think the disconnect is that you're viewing the S

Re: Very confusing documentation

2016-09-19 Thread Joseph B Cotton
"... and they're more or less in the right order. ..." Not really. But thank you for the nice reply. The issue here is that my understanding is no better with your explanation. It is curious that the introductory explanation for beginners is full of specialized and undefined jargon. As is usua

Re: Very confusing documentation

2016-09-19 Thread Dave Newton
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Joseph B Cotton wrote: > What is meant by "mediated", "Form a connected link between" > "tied" "Attached" > "adapter" "Connector between differing functionality" > ? (I am a native English > speaker, with years of programming experience including Java.

Very confusing documentation

2016-09-19 Thread Joseph B Cotton
Can someone explain this section in the beginner's documentation https://struts.apache.org/primer.html ? Questions include: What is meant by "mediated", "tied" "adapter" ? (I am a native English speaker, with years of programming experience including Java.) What is the difference between "represen