Creating Struts 2 Application on Eclipse Ganymede
Written by Wawan Hartawan
Friday, 17 October 2008 11:23 - Last Updated Thursday, 20 November 2008 10:13
After two days in deep confused how to create web application with struts 2 framework on
eclipse, finally i can get it... Alhamdullilah... :-)
I planed to create web application with the "powerfull of struts 2" and what i get... headache.. for
two days all I got from the eclipse internal browser was warning message "There is no Action
mapped for namespace / and action name HelloWorld."
I'm looking every corner of web, and off course with the helped MR Google, and found some
usefull page, but still i couldn't get it. For last shot Ii tried to create application using Web
Work, the origin of Struts 2... After I made it, then I implemented the steps with Struts 2, Thank
God It's worked... The steps are...
1. I used Struts 2.1.2 with eclipse 3.4.0 Ganymede
2. First, Create New Project on Eclipse, on File -> New -> Dynamic Web Project
3. On Project Name, fill it with project name, such as HelloWorldStruts2 then Click Next
4. Change the Java Source Directory into /WebContent/WEB-INF/classes the click finish (if
you forgot, it can be done latter from Configure Build Path Menu)
5. Copy the minimun struts 2 lib
(classworlds,common-fileuploads,common-logging,common-logging-api, freemaker, ognl, oro,
struts-core, struts2-core, xwork) into WebContent/WEB-INF/lib
6. Create new package for sample the package name is "com.hello"
7. Change web.xml file
8. Create struts.xml on classes folder "/WebContent/WEB-INF/classes"
9. Create Hello.java on com.hello package (it equal with
"/WebContent/WEB-INF/classes/com/hello" folder)
10. Create hello.jsp on WebContent (it will be influence on struts.xml) if you put the jsp file
on WEB-INF, the you must write on struts.xml result "/WEB-INF/hello.jsp"
11. Run the application
12. Put http://localhost:8080/HelloWorldStruts/Hello.action
The Code
web.xml content :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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Creating Struts 2 Application on Eclipse Ganymede
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<web-app>
<display-name>My Application</display-name>
<filter>
<filter-name>struts</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>actionPackages</param-name>
<param-value>chemistry</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts</filter-name>
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Creating Struts 2 Application on Eclipse Ganymede
Written by Wawan Hartawan
Friday, 17 October 2008 11:23 - Last Updated Thursday, 20 November 2008 10:13
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>login.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
struts.xml content :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
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Creating Struts 2 Application on Eclipse Ganymede
Written by Wawan Hartawan
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<struts>
<package name="com.hello" extends="struts-default">
<action name="Hello" class="com.hello.Hello">
<result>/hello.jsp</result>
</action>
</package>
</struts>
Hello.java
package com.hello;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
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Creating Struts 2 Application on Eclipse Ganymede
Written by Wawan Hartawan
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public class Hello extends ActionSupport{
private String message;
public String execute()
message = "Hello, WebWorld!";
return SUCCESS;
public String getMessage()
return message;
}
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Creating Struts 2 Application on Eclipse Ganymede
Written by Wawan Hartawan
Friday, 17 October 2008 11:23 - Last Updated Thursday, 20 November 2008 10:13
hello.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Struts Pages</title>
</head>
<body>
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Creating Struts 2 Application on Eclipse Ganymede
Written by Wawan Hartawan
Friday, 17 October 2008 11:23 - Last Updated Thursday, 20 November 2008 10:13
Struts Say :
<h1><s:property value="message"/></h1>
</body>
</html>
I hope it help...
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