I began with struts2-blank.war in the Struts distribution.
I placed this war file tomcat6 /webapps folder.
Then I started tomcat6.
( d:\tomcat6\bin>tomcat6)
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I expected the blank.war to be automatically expanded by tomcat.
So, I shutdown tomcat6.
( just ctrl+c)
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Now, I explored tomcat6\webapps folder.
As expected, I found struts2-blank FOLDER.
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I copied this folder to the desktop.
Then, I renamed it as 'myapp'.
After renaming, I copied and pasted it in
tomcat6\webapps folder.
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I started tomcat6 again.
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In the browser, I typed the URL as
'http://localhost:8080/myapp/
I got the following display.
( after some time 'loading')
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Struts is up and running ...
Languages
English
Espanol
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So, my context is working.
I have a background in Struts1.1
So, I wanted to see where Struts2 differs in deployment.
The sample makes use of package 'example';.
As usual, web.xml is directly under WEB-INF
But, they have placed struts.xml inside classes folder.
This is important.
Also, I found two xml files inside the classes folder.
One file has been given name as 'struts.xml'.
The other file has been named 'example.xml'
My package name is going to be 'mypack'.
I renamed 'example.xml' as 'myapp.xml'.
I renamed 'example' folder as 'mypack'.
Then I removed all the files already found there.
Now , I am ready!
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I am in g: drive
g:>md struts2example
g:>cd struts2example
>md mypack
>cd mypack
>edit setpath.bat
set path=c:\windows\command;c:\jdk1.5\bin
>edit setcpath.bat
set classpath=g:\struts2example;commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;ognl-2.6.11.jar;
xwork-2.0.7.jar;freemarker-2.3.8.jar;struts2-core-2.0.14.jar
( I found these jars in struts2-blank\WEB-INF\lib)
>edit demoAction.java
package mypack;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;
public class demoAction extends
ActionSupport
{
String username=null;
String password=null;
public void setUsername (String s)
{username=s;}
public String getUsername()
{return username;}
public void setPassword(String s)
{password=s;}
public String getPassword()
{return password;}
public String execute ()
throws Exception
{
String s1= getUsername();
String s2= getPassword();
if(!s1.equals("sam")||!s2.equals("admin"))
{
addActionError
("Invalid user name or password! please try again.");
return ERROR;
}
else
{
return SUCCESS;
}
}
}
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>setpath
>setcpath
>javac demoAction.java
copy the class file to tomcat6\webapps\myapp\WEB-INF\classes\mypack (as usual)
>edit demoInput.jsp
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags"%>
<html>
<body>
<s:form namespace="/mypack" action="demoAction" method="POST">
<s:actionerror />
<s:fielderror />
<s:textfield name="username"
label="user name" />
<s:password name="password"
label="password" />
<s:submit value="Login" />
</s:form>
</body>
</html>
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>edit demoOutput.jsp
<%@ taglib prefix="s"
uri="/struts-tags" %>
<html>
<body>
Welcome...
<s:property value="username" />
</body>
</html>
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open a new command then go to
d:\tomcat6\webapps\myapp\WEB-INF\classes
rename example.xml as 'myapp.xml'
then edit that file as follows
<?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">
<struts>
<package name="mypack"
namespace="/mypack"
extends="struts-default">
<action name="demoAction"
class="mypack.demoAction">
<result>/demoOutput.jsp</result>
<result name="error">/demoInput.jsp
</result>
</action>
</package>
</struts>
then goto struts.xml which is available in same directory(classes)
>edit struts.xml
<?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">
<struts>
<constant name="struts.enable.DynamicMethodInvocation" value="false" />
<constant name="struts.devMode" value="false" />
<include file="myapp.xml"/>
</struts>
Now, I am ready to test the program.
I started tomcat6.
In the browser, I typed the address as
I got two textfields.
I typed ‘sam’ in text1 and ‘admin’ in text2 and submitted.
There was a slight delay and then I got output as welcome sam.
Them I typed tom in text1 and ‘admin’ in text2 and submitted.
I think, this procedure is easy to execute and can be followed for advanced experiments.
