about the book

Starting with "Hello World" the Webwork way, the book immerses the reader in practical, how-to material. You will soon know how to configure WebWork and gradually and incrementally master the robust and powerful uses of the framework. WebWork in Action uses the same basic, continuing example used in Manning's Hibernate in Action to show how to integrate WebWork with the popular Hibernate persistence framework.

what's inside

• Handling data and displaying content with Expression Language and Tag Libraries
• Inversion of Control and WebWork actions
• VelocityType conversion and data validation
• Internationalization and component-oriented design
• Integration of web applications into the Hibernate persistence framework
• Webwork best practices and architecture

about the authors

Patrick Lightbody has worked for various technology companies, from Cisco Systems to tiny Silicon Valley startups, and currently leads Jive Software's Professional Services organization. In his spare time he contributes to several OpenSymphony projects. Patrick lives in Portland, Oregon.

A developer and J2EE architect, Jason Carreira has lately designed and built enterprise financial software products. He currently works for ePlus on next generation eProcurement solutions. He is a core developer of the XWork command pattern framework and WebWork MVC web framework at OpenSymphony. Jason lives in Rochester, New York.