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Greetings...
If web building is the bread and butter of many Java developers today--and
with the ubiquity and importance of the web, it's a nice niche to have
dibs on--then this week's ONJava articles should offer some directly
applicable help with getting your web applications to look right and work
right.
In "Advanced SiteMesh", Sunil Patil digs into this open source technology,
which uses servlet filters to provide a consistent look and feel to web
sites, even those where the content is generated by different underlying
technologies. He writes "the easiest possible solution is to let each of
your web applications create plain HTML content without knowing about how
it is being decorated, and only then have something else to choose and
apply appropriate decorators. This is precisely what SiteMesh does."
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/22/sitemesh.html
Struts provides a nice separation of view and controller from the typical
web application arrangement, but this turns out to make a Struts
application more difficult to test completely with a tool like Cactus. Lu
Jian believes he has found a solution, which he calls "StrutsUT". In
"Unit Test Your Struts Application", he says "the idea is to extend the
Cactus framework's 'in-container' part to interact with the test case two
times in the web container", with the test called from both Cactus and
Struts.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/22/test-struts.html
Our excerpt from "Enterprise JavaBeans, 4th Edition" concludes this week.
In this second installment, Bill Burke, Richard Monson-Haefel, and Sacha
Labourey introduce a session bean to manage the entity bean presented in
part 1, and a client application to exercise the session bean's business
logic.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/ejb4_chap4/index1.html
This week's feature article from java.net delves into Swing GUIs and
custom component development to deliver just the right experience to end
users. As Jene Jasper writes, "there are times when you want a modal
window that implements window-specific modality rather than the
application-wide modality provided by the standard JDialog class." In
"The JModalWindow Project", he shows how to develop a new widget, the
JModalWindow, to answer this need.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/09/07/modal.html
Please join us again next week.
Chris Adamson, editor
ONJava.com
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