Strecks - about Strecks, a Struts extension framework for Java 5

Strecks

Struts Extension Framework for Java 5

Setting Up Strecks With Struts

To set up Strecks, you will need to follow the following instructions.

1. Include the Strecks jar file in your Struts application class path, for example by placing it in WEB-INF/lib

2. Configure your WEB-INF/struts-config.xml to use the Strecks request processsor, for example, by adding the following entry:

<controller
	processorClass="org.strecks.controller.ControllerRequestProcessor"
	contentType="text/html;charset=utf-8" inputForward="true"
	nocache="true" />

If you are using Tiles, then you will want to extend TilesControllerRequestProcessor, which is identical to ControllerRequestProcessor except that it extends TilesRequestProcessor instead of RequestProcessor.

<controller
	processorClass="org.strecks.controller.TilesControllerRequestProcessor"
	contentType="text/html;charset=utf-8" inputForward="true"
	nocache="true" />

3. If necessary configure Strecks by adding a strecks.properties file into your application's class path. This file is used to add interceptors as well as to configure some of the extension points. For example, the application could include a strecks.properties with the following entries:

form.wrapper.impl=org.strecks.form.handler.SessionErrorFormHandler
before.interceptor.1=org.strecks.interceptor.ActionLoggingInterceptor
before.interceptor.2=org.strecks.interceptor.RedirectBeforeInterceptor
after.interceptor.2=org.strecks.interceptor.ActionLoggingInterceptor

The SessionErrorFormHandler is used to enable form errors to be held temporarily in the session, which is useful for supporting redirect after posts with form errors. The RedirectBeforeInterceptor is provided for redirect after post support, and the ActionLoggingInterceptor is used to log action processing.