Mastering BEA WebLogic Server: Best Practices for Building and Deploying J2EE Applications

The following list summarizes the design decisions we ve made for the bigrez.com application:

• The bigrez.com application includes a separate user site and administration site, with different processes and visual designs.

• The application meets the presentation- tier requirements for basic display, navigation, and form validation and submission outlined in Chapter 2.

• We ll use master page assembly to control the overall structure of pages in the site, with a page display servlet used to invoke the master page for .page file extensions.

• We ll use a servlet-centric architecture with the Struts framework to implement a model-view-controller approach in the presentation tier.

• Presentation-tier components access business-tier components directly, with a minimal number of additional value objects and session bean fa §ade components , representing an interface technique we ve called direct interaction.

Are you ready to look at the code and see how it all comes together? Turn to the next chapter, and let s get to it!