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Building a sample Web App with STRUTS Part 2 :

By Harshal Deo & Keerti Pai

Adding database access to the sample web app.

Pre-requisite:

Quick Overview:

In part one, we developed two screens (JSPs) and the Action class. The TestForm had a simple form to take an input String and pass it to the Action class. The Action class constructed a Welcome message and displayed it back on the TestResult page.

In this article we will modify that application to "search" for employees from a database, based on the input search String. The database will store employee records and our app will allow a simple search on the short name "abbreviation". Our assumption is this short name "abbreviation" is sort of like a user ID used for system accounts and email addresses etc. The search will return the first name , last name along with the short name abbreviation from the records that match the search criteria.

NOTE: This is just an attempt to demonstrate the database access from STRUTS, not necessarily a "Best Practice". For a simple web application that does not have much transactional/persistence requirements this surely is a quick and easy way. As next steps, one could separate the Database access code from the Action class and/or use JDO or a similar product like Castor. Please look at The Open Stack Project for further details on these approaches.

Preparation:

Optional: MySQL database setup

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