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Using multiple Struts configuration files

Brett McLaughlin, Sr. (brett@newInstance.com), Author/Editor, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Brett McLaughlin
Brett McLaughlin has worked in computers since the Logo days. (Remember the little triangle?) In recent years, he's become one of the best-known authors and programmers in the Java technology and XML communities. He's worked for Nextel Communications, implementing complex enterprise systems; at Lutris Technologies, actually writing application servers; and, most recently, at O'Reilly Media, Inc., where he continues to write and edit books that matter. His most recent book, Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook , was the first book available on the newest version of Java technology, and his classic Java and XML remains one of the definitive works on using XML technologies in the Java language.

Summary:  Breaking a large configuration file into smaller, more manageable parts makes Struts applications easier to organize and maintain. In this tutorial, Brett McLaughlin shows how to set up Apache Struts to use multiple configuration files. The tutorial reviews Struts configuration, takes you step-by-step through execution of a divide-and-conquer configuration strategy, and guides you through some additional configuration cleanup options.

Date:  22 Nov 2005
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (78 KB | 23 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Even though I'm a programmer -- by trade and by choice -- I seem to spend more time configuring, setting up, deploying, and managing applications than I do actually coding. I don't particularly care for this (to be blunt, I don't like it one bit), but it's a fact of life. As a result, solutions like the one shown in this tutorial make my life easier. It takes a little more time to split up a Struts application's configuration files, but the results are well worth the cost. Instead of having a single point of failure -- whether that's one file, one programmer who understands that file, or even one server storing that file -- you break up the possible points of failure and reduce the chances of something seriously nasty going wrong. And that, as I said earlier, is worth at least a few extra nights of good sleep.

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