Purpose

This document describes the architecture of a large web application written in Struts 2. Most examples are too simple to deal with the issues that you run into when you have a large application. This document tries to provide solutions for many of the issues you will run into when creating a large struts2 application.

Outline

Architecture

• architectural layers
  **UI
  **session
  **process
  **component
  **db
• modules - ear, war, web, session, process, session
• paging (pager beans)
• struts conventions (action/jsp naming conventions, some domain model = same action)
• validation
• querying architecture