36.What are differences between <bean:message> and
<bean:write>
<bean:message>: is
used to retrive keyed values from resource bundle. It also supports the ability
to include parameters that can be substituted for defined placeholders in the
retrieved string.
<bean:message
key="prompt.customer.firstname"/>
<bean:write>: is
used to retrieve and print the value of the bean property. <bean:write>
has no body.
<bean:write name="customer" property="firstName"/>
37.How the exceptions are handled in struts?
Exceptions in Struts are
handled in two ways:
- Programmatic
exception handling :
Explicit try/catch blocks
in any code that can throw exception. It works well when custom value (i.e., of
variable) needed when error occurs.
- Declarative
exception handling :You can either define <global-exceptions> handling
tags in your struts-config.xml or
define the exception handling tags within <action></action> tag.
It works well when custom page needed when error occurs. This approach
applies only to exceptions thrown by Actions.
<global-exceptions>
<exception key="some.key"
type="java.lang.NullPointerException"
path="/WEB-INF/errors/null.jsp"/>
</global-exceptions>
or
<exception key="some.key"
type="package.SomeException"
path="/WEB-INF/somepage.jsp"/>
38.What is difference between ActionForm and DynaActionForm?
- An ActionForm represents
an HTML form that the user interacts with over one or more pages. You will
provide properties to hold the state of the form with getters and setters
to access them. Whereas, using DynaActionForm there is no need of
providing properties to hold the state. Instead these properties and their
type are declared in the struts-config.xml
- The DynaActionForm bloats
up the Struts config file with the xml based definition. This gets
annoying as the Struts Config file grow larger.
- The DynaActionForm is
not strongly typed as the ActionForm. This means there is no compile time
checking for the form fields. Detecting them at runtime is painful and
makes you go through redeployment.
- ActionForm
can be cleanly organized in packages as against the flat organization in
the Struts Config file.
- ActionForm
were designed to act as a Firewall between HTTP and the Action classes,
i.e. isolate and encapsulate the HTTP request parameters from direct use
in Actions. With DynaActionForm,
the property access is no different than using request.getParameter( .. ).
- DynaActionForm construction
at runtime requires a lot of Java Reflection (Introspection) machinery
that can be avoided.
39.How can we make message resources definitions file available to
the Struts framework environment?
We can make message resources definitions file (properties file)
available to Struts framework environment by adding this file to struts-config.xml.
<message-resources parameter="com.login.struts.ApplicationResources"/>
40.What is the life cycle of ActionForm?
The lifecycle of ActionForm invoked
by the RequestProcessor is
as follows:
- Retrieve
or Create Form Bean associated with Action
- "Store"
FormBean in appropriate scope (request or session)
- Reset
the properties of the FormBean
- Populate
the properties of the FormBean
- Validate
the properties of the FormBean
Pass FormBean to Action