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In this step, you'll generate a ''skeleton'' JSP to display information from the Person object. I say ''skeleton'' because it'll just be the <form> itself. It will contain WebWork's JSP tags that render table rows for each property in Person.java. The tool that we use to do this was written by [Erik Hatcher|http://www.blogscene.org/erik/]. It's basically just a single class (FormTagsHandler.java) and a couple of XDoclet templates (FormKeys.xdt and Form_jsp.xdt). All these files are located in extras/viewgen.

In this step, you'll generate a JSP page to display information from the Person object. It will contain WebWork's JSP tags that render table rows for each property in Person.java. The AppGen tool that's used to do this is based off a StrutsGen tool - which was originally written by [Erik Hatcher|http://www.blogscene.org/erik/]. It's basically just a couple of classes and a bunch of XDoclet templates. All these files are located in extras/appgen.

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<div class="note" style="margin: 5px; background-color: #fcc">__WARNING:__ The "viewgen" tool has been deprecated in 1.6.1 and will be removed in 1.8. The <a href="http://raibledesigns.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=CreateDAO#appgen">appgen</a> tool provides the same functionality.</div>

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* From the command-line, navigate to "extras/viewgen"

* Execute __ant -Dform.name=Person__ to generate three files in extras/viewgen/build:

** Person.properties (labels for your form elements)

** personForm.jsp (skeleton JSP file for viewing a single Person)

** personList.jsp (skeleton JSP file for viewing a list of People)

* Copy the contents of Person.properties into web/WEB-INF/classes/ApplicationResources_en.properties. Here is an example of what you might add to ApplicationResources_en.properties:

* From the command-line, navigate to "extras/appgen"

* Execute __ant -Dobject.name=Person -Dappgen.type=pojo__ to generate a bunch of files in extras/appgen/build/gen. In fact, it'll generate all the files you need to complete this tutorial. However, let's just grab the ones you need.

** web/WEB-INF/classes/Person.properties (labels for your form elements)

** web/personForm.jsp (JSP file for viewing a single Person)

** web/personList.jsp (JSP file for viewing a list of People)

* Copy the contents of Person.properties into web/WEB-INF/classes/ApplicationResources_en.properties. These are all the keys you will need for titles/headings and form properties. Here is an example of what you should add to ApplicationResources_en.properties:

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person.firstName=First Name

person.id=Id

person.lastName=Last Name

personForm.id=Id

personForm.firstName=First Name

personForm.lastName=Last Name

person.added=Person has been added successfully.

person.updated=Person has been updated successfully.

person.deleted=Person has been deleted successfully.

# -- person list page --

personList.title=Person List

personList.heading=Persons

# -- person detail page --

personDetail.title=Person Detail

personDetail.heading=Person Information

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* Copy personForm.jsp to web/pages/personForm.jsp. Copy personList.jsp to web/pages/personList.jsp. ''Notice that each of the new filename's first character is lowercase.''

* Copy personForm.jsp to web/personForm.jsp. Copy personList.jsp to web/personList.jsp.

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