The Stripes Book Blog

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STATEFUL == TROUBLE

I've always been fond of Apache Click. To me, it is to component-based web development what Stripes is to action-based web development. Simple, clean, productive, and focused.

In fact, I've written a book about it, Getting Started With Apache Click. You'll find more details here, and you can purchase it here.

I've known that for a long time, but don't take my word for it -- check out Civil Disobedient's eloquent post on StackOverflow. After his poignant testimony, the last paragraph is the icing on the cake. Hear, hear!

The plugin is still a work-in-progress, but it's decent enough for a test-drive and I'd sure appreciate some feedback, so check it out and let me know what you think.

I wrote an article for PragPub magazine, which is published in the November issue. It talks about the awesome power of the Stripes extension mechanism. The code snippet uses the ObjectFactory from Stripes 1.6 (not yet released), but for Stripes 1.5 it would simply involve creating an instance with newInstance instead of the ObjectFactory.

You can read the article in the November issue of PragPub magazine.

Velocity is a simple templating engine. Stripes does not have Velocity support, so why am I writing about it? Because I think that Velocity is a very nice alternative to JSPs, so much so that I am currently working on a plugin that adds Velocity support to Stripes. It's not ready yet, so I thought I'd post a quick Velocity tutorial in the meantime.

HSQLDB is a very convenient database engine for trying out new frameworks and libraries, because there is no real "installation" required, it is simple to use, and it comes with a GUI tool for browsing the database. Here is a small Ant script to make it even easier to use.

How do you convince the Suits to use Stripes?

This is a tutorial to set up JPA with Hibernate, using Maven 2. There are probably other/better tutorials out there, but I couldn't find one that explained everything that I needed to know, all in one place. This may be due to lack of Googling skills. Nevertheless, I'm writing this in case others find it useful. There isn't anything particularly difficult here, but I'm probably going to need to refer back to this, so I may as well post it.

By default, Stripes uses StripesResources.properties as a resource bundle, and you can of course use StripesResources_xx.properties for different languages. For various reasons, you might like to use a database to store your localized messages. Using a database-backed resource bundle with Stripes is not difficult. Here are some tips to get you started.