Stripes: The Official Guide to Stripes Java Web Framework is a comprehensive tour of the Stripes framework. It covers the framework’s history, setting up a new project, running your first Stripes application, and configuration. You’ll also learn about ActionBeans, binding, annotations, validation, the layout template, integration with other frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.), clean URLs, the form tag library, and interceptors. You’ll encounter all of these topics in a walkthrough of creating an entire application from beginning to end.

The book also covers Ajax, but not as a buzz word. Stripes is an excellent framework for Ajax–centric applications, and this will be demonstrated throughout the book. Ajax will be used where it makes sense, and you will see how simple it is to implement within Stripes.

The example application is Bugzooka, which is a production–ready application for tracking software bugs. By seeing how this application is created, you’ll come to see how easy it is using Stripes for implementing real–world applications. A good comparison could be a Java implementation of Bugzilla.

What you’ll learn

• The fundamentals of the Stripes framework and integration with Ajax
• How to set up and build a new Stripes application starting with project configuration, ActionBeans, binding, annotations, validation, the layout template, clean URLs, the form tag library, interceptors, and more
• How to use the workable best–practice code in this book, which can be copied straight from the book into an editor and run
• Integrating Stripes with other current, popular Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
• Completing your first Stripes application, which yields a complete working Bugzooka web application by the end of the book

Who is this book for?

This book targets an audience already familiar with Java and specifically Java web development. Since Stripes is a framework, the audience should be familiar with servlets and JSPs and how to create web applications with them. The audience could be either developers looking for a new framework to replace an existing one or developers new to Java web frameworks who are trying to choose among the technologies available on the market today.