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First, thank you for
using Easy Struts ... without you, project cannot continue.
After receiving
a large number of email, Easy Struts is now under refactoring…
The
Easy Struts project provides plug-ins for the Eclipse 2.0, Borland JBuilder 5, and Borland JBuilder 6 development
environments to enable you to develop web applications based on the MVC
design pattern provided by the Jakarta Struts framework.
Easy Struts is FREE and OPEN-SOURCE. Licensing is
provided with the ASF license.
Why use Easy Struts inside Eclipse :
- Easy Struts plugin can be
used with J2EE plugin : Sysdeo Tomcat, Resin, Lomboz... (or simply a Java project).
- Provide Struts config
editor for Struts 1.0 and Struts 1.1 files.
- XSLT
generation.
- Provide a global view of any Java project with Easy Struts support.
- Full support for Struts 1.1 modules.
- Tool tip text extracted from Struts DTD.
- Input helper (chooser dialog and validation).
- Compatible with IBM WSAD 5 (with some troubles...)
- XDoclet support in progress.
- ... and it's FREE
- Easy Struts developpement
is in progress ...there are still bugs in theses versions...
Compatibility
with Eclipse 2.1 done, and released !
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STATUS
- NEW Easy
Strut 0.6.4 for Eclipse out ...
- Survey #1 : What Struts
version are you using ...
- Easy
Explore Eclipse plugin out ...
- Easy Struts 0.4.2 for JBuilder out ...
- UML Icons for JBuilder out ...
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Books news :
New Struts book available soon :
Professional
Struts Applications, cover subjets are Struts, Lucene, ObjectRelationalBrige,
Velocity.
Interesting book about open-source java tools :
Professional
Java Tools : Real world Ant, JUnit, CVS, Cactus, Bugzilla, Maven, JMeter and XDoclet.
Eclipse book available soon : Java Development with Eclipse from manning. One chaper is related to Eclipse and Struts (mean Easy
Struts?;)
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 Eclipse
features:
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Eclipse 2.1 Compatible.
- Full wizard refactoring
(add exception and module wizards).
- Support for Struts 1.1 modules.
- Easy Struts Explorer with struts-config
and webapp hierarchy.
- Use of XSLT for classes and jsp
generation.
- Struts
config editor for Struts
1.1 and Struts 1.0 config files (not available for
Struts 1.0).
- Wizard Action, ActionForm,
and JSP: allow fast creation of a (bean + jsp)
form, associated with an action.
- Wizard Action: allows you to easily create an action,
which can be associated to an existing form.
- Assitant ActionForm: allows you to rapidly create Permet a (bean + jsp) form.
- Create and update of the Struts descriptor (struts-config.xml).
- Starting up of the Web application for Struts
(addition of the action servlet into web.xml, copying of the lib, tlds,
and so on).
- Support for Struts 1.0 and Struts 1.1.
- Preferences page.
- Ability to use your classes coming from Struts
classes.
For more information, check Changes log.
Current version is 0.6.4: get it with
update manager (recommended) or
download it [zip] [tar.gz]
Previous version can be found here.
JBuilder features:
- Use of XSLT for classes and jsp generation. (not yet released)
- Wizard Action, ActionForm and JSP: allow fast
creation of a (bean + jsp) form, associated with an
action.
- Wizard Action: allows you to easily create an action, which can be
associated to an existing form.
- Assitant ActionForm:
allows you to rapidly create Permet a (bean + jsp) form.
- Create and update of the Struts descriptor (struts-config.xml).
- Starting up of the Web application for Struts (addition of the action servlet into web.xml, copying
of the lib, tlds, and so on).
- Support for Struts 1.0 and Struts 1.1.
- Preferences page.
- Ability to use your classes coming from Struts classes.
For more information, check Changes log .
Current version is 0.4.2 : download it [zip] [tar.gz]
Previous version can be found here.
For managing Struts config files inside JBuilder, struts-console is available in a JBuilder OpenTool. Get it here.
UML Icons for JBuilder :
UML icons for JBuilder: For UML
users, this opentool replaces JBuilder
Java icons with UML standard icons. [More information]
Easy Explore for Eclipse :
Easy Explore 1.0.1 for Eclipse: For Eclipse user, this plugin add 'Windows Explorer' feature in Resource/Package
explorer popup menu. Get it with Update manager (recommended) or Download it.
NOTE: This plugin is not Easy Struts or Struts
related.
Previous version can be
found here.
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Easy Struts is open source and free, if you
want you can donate to support developpement
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Here some struts related books :
Chuck Cavaness
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NEW By wrox.
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NEW By David Gallardo.
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By Struts team.
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By Sue Spielman
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by James Turner, Kevin Bedell
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By James Goodwill
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by Shawn Bayern
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Refactoring
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