[ANNOUNCE] Stuts @ Ajax Experience

[Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>]

I'll be giving three -- count 'em three -- presentations at the Ajax
Experience at the end of September. Two talks are Struts-related
reprisals form last year, and the third talk, new this year!, dives
into popular tools for testing Ajax applications.

 * Ajax Testing Tool Review
 * Struts on Ajax: Retrofitting Struts with Ajax Taglibs
 * Ajax on Struts: Coding an Ajax Application with Struts 2

Hope to see you there!

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Ajax Testing Tool Review

Not long ago, testing Ajax components meant play-testing a page by
hand. Today, there are a growing number of tools we can use to
simplify and automate Ajax testing.

In this session we will cover when to test, what to test and how to
test Ajax components. You learn how to create automatic tests with
various tools, including YUI Test, OpenQA Selenium and TIBCO Test
Automation Kit, and how to use Ajax testing tools with IDEs and
Continuous Integration systems.

In this session, you will learn:

    * When, where and how to test Ajax components;
    * How to create automatic tests with various tools;
    * How to use Ajax testing tools with IDEs and Continuous
Integration systems.

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Struts on Ajax: Retrofitting Struts with Ajax Taglibs

Struts is Java's most popular web framework. Ajax is the web's hottest
user interface. What happens when we put Struts on Ajax?

In this session, we stir some Ajax wizardry into a conventional Struts
application, without all the sweat and bother of writing our own
JavaScript. Struts 1 and Struts 2 both support Ajax taglibs that look
and feel just like ordinary JSP tags. If it's just a little bit of
Ajax that you want, these tags will get you around the learning curve
in record time.

During the session, we will cover

    * Using the Java Web Parts taglib with Struts 1
    * Using the Ajax YUI plugin with Struts 2

Who should attend: Struts developers who would like to utilize Ajax
with existing applications, and Ajax developers who would like to
utilize Struts as a backend.

To get the most from this session, some familiarity with Struts or a
similar framework is helpful.

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Ajax on Struts: Coding an Ajax Application with Struts 2

Ajax is the web's hottest user interface. Struts is Java's most
popular web framework. What happens when we put Ajax on Struts?

In this session, , we look at writing a new Struts 2 application from
square one, using the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Library on the front
end, and Struts 2 on the backend. YUI provides the glitz and the
glamour, and Struts 2 provides the dreary business logic, input
validation, and text formatting.

During the session, we will cover

    * How to integrate an Ajax UI with Struts 2
    * Basics of the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Library
    * Business services Struts can provide to an Ajax UI

Who should attend: Ajax developers who would like to utilize Struts as
a back-end, and Struts developers who would like to utilize Ajax as a
front-end.

To get the most from this session, some familiarity with an Ajax
library, like YUI or Dojo, is helpful.

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To register for the conference, visit the Ajax Experience site
<http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/html/index.html>.

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Ted Husted is a software engineer and team mentor. He offers Struts 2,
JPA/Hibernate, and Spring training courses through the Struts Mentor
site <http://strutsmentor.com/>.

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