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-Chapter 22: How Struts Works
-The Action Servlet
-Creating A ModuleConfig Object
-The Request Processor
-Summary

Table of Contents
-Introduction
-Chapter 1: Model 2 and Struts
-Chapter 2: Input Validation with Action Forms
-Chapter 3: The HTML Tag Library
-Chapter 4: Input Validation and Data Conversion
-Chapter 5: The Validator Plugin
-Chapter 6: The Expression Language
-Chapter 7: JSTL
-Chapter 8: The Bean Tag Library
-Chapter 9: The Logic Tag Library
-Chapter 10: Struts-EL, Nested, selectLabel
-Chapter 11: Message Handling and Internationalization
-Chapter 12: The Tiles Framework
-Chapter 13: Securing Struts Applications
-Chapter 14: The Config Object
-Chapter 15: The Persistence Layer
-Chapter 16: Object Caching
-Chapter 17: File Upload and File Download
-Chapter 18: Paging and Sorting
-Chapter 19: Preventing Double Submits
-Chapter 20: Early HttpSession Invalidation
-Chapter 21: Decorating Request Objects
-Chapter 22: How Struts Works

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Summary

This chapter dissected Struts’ source code and explains how the Struts action servlet handles each action invocation. Of particular interest are the three most important classes: ActionServlet, RequestProcessor, and ModuleConfig. Understanding how Struts works enables you to write more effective Struts applications.

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