Struts 2 Example

Struts 2 Example explains step by step example of configuring Struts 2 with eclipse

Apache Struts 2, is a popular Java Model-View-Contraller (MVC) framework, which is developed by merging WebWork and Struts 1.x web frameworks.

Struts 2 have lot off difference with struts 1, struts 2 have implemented with an idea of convention over configuration, it also have many annotations in order to increase the developer productivity.

Features like interceptors, OGNL expression & value stack model are some of the benefits, you will get when you are developing with struts 2

Note

When you deploy your struts 2 web application, you may get FilterDispatcher is deprecated! Please use the new filters! warning message, this is because FilterDispatcher filter is deprecated since Struts version 2.1.3, you need to re-configure your application with StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter

Required Libraries
  1. JDK 6
  2. Eclipse 3.7
  3. struts-2.3.15.1

Following jar must be in classpath

  1. commons-fileupload-1.3.jar
  2. commons-io-2.0.1.jar
  3. commons-lang3-3.1.jar
  4. commons-logging-1.1.3.jar
  5. freemarker-2.3.19.jar
  6. javassist-3.11.0.GA.jar
  7. ognl-3.0.6.jar
  8. struts2-core-2.3.15.1.jar
  9. xwork-core-2.3.15.1.jar

You can see the project structure below

Struts 2 Example

index.jsp

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s"%>
<html>
<body>
	<s:form action="HelloUser">
		<s:textfield name="Name" label="Name" />
		<s:submit />
	</s:form>
</body>
</html>

success.jsp

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s"%>
<html>
<body>
	<h1>
		<s:property value="message" />
	</h1>
</body>
</html>

HelloUser.java

Here is the action class, logic is implemented here

package net.javatips;

public class HelloUser {

  
private String message;
  
private String name;

  
public String execute() {
     
setMessage("Hello " + getName());
     
return "result";
  
}

  
public String getMessage() {
     
return message;
  
}

  
public void setMessage(String message) {
     
this.message = message;
  
}

  
public String getName() {
     
return name;
  
}

  
public void setName(String name) {
     
this.name = name;
  
}

}

struts.xml

Following is the struts 2 configuration, which will used for naviagating different page views

The name of this configuration file should be "struts.xml"

<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
<struts>
	<package name="default" extends="struts-default">
		<action name="HelloUser" class="net.javatips.HelloUser">
			<result name="result">/success.jsp</result>
		</action>
	</package>
</struts>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
	version="2.5">
	<filter>
		<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
		<filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter</filter-class>
	</filter>
	<filter-mapping>
		<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
	</filter-mapping>
	<session-config>
		<session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
	</session-config>
	<welcome-file-list>
		<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
	</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
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Struts 2 Example

Struts 2 Example









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