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A demo application

I admit I've used the DVD library application before: for example in my article "Coding your second Jakarta Struts Application". It's a classical list-detail application and it's great for demonstrations since it's so simple, still it illustrates many important aspects of a web application. It has these two pages:

Figure 2: The List page

Figure 3: The Detail page

Here are the Struts actions used to navigate among the two screens:

Figure 4: Actions for the DVD application

The DVDs are held in an XML-file (dvds.xml) placed in the application root directory. To read this file I've used JDOM. To better understand the following examples you should know that the list action instantiates a module called DVDManager which reads this xml file and stores it as a JDOM structure in session scope. The other actions may then fetch DVD information through simple calls to the DVDManager

The application is started with the list action. On a Tomcat server you'd enter this address in your browser:

http://localhost:8080/dvdlib/list.do

Installing the DVD application and STC

To run the application and the STC programs you need these components:

• The DVD Library application
• Struts 1.1
• STC
• JUnit
• JDOM  

To ease the process of getting these components I've packed them all as a war-file. Place it in your servlet container, start the container, and the application is running. NOTE: the size of the file is 1.2 MB.

If you already have Struts 1.1, and maybe some of the other components as well, you may download this zip-file containing only the application-specific files (jsp, web.xml, struts-config, application class-files etc.). The size is only 26 KB. 

If you need to download some of the other components use these links:

• Struts 1.1
• JUnit, select the "Download" link 
• JDOM
• STC

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