Struts 2.x : [A Framework from ASF] :: Struts 2.x with HelloWorld Example

• Struts with HelloWorld
• Example

Here i have tried to create one index page that contains one input field where user can enter name and if this name match with the name that i have checked in action class; will return welcome.jsp else it will return failure.jsp.

Struts 2.x HelloWorld Application Example

Project Structure

Customer.java

package com.javaskool;

public class Customer {

	String cname;

	public String getCname() {
		return cname;
	}

	public void setCname(String cname) {
		this.cname = cname;
	}
	
	public String execute()
	{
		if(cname.equals("james"))
		{				
		return "success";
		}
		else
		{
		return "failure";
		}
	}
	
}

index.jsp

<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>

<h1>Welcome to Struts 2.3</h1>

<s:form action="xyz"> 
<s:textfield name="cname" label="Enter Name :"></s:textfield>
<s:submit value="Click Here" />
</s:form> 

welcome.jsp

<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>

Welcome Mr. <s:property value="cname"/> 

failure.jsp

<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>

Hi Mr. <s:property value="cname"/> , Your name doesn't match with our records.

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>

<package name="x" extends="struts-default">

<action name="xyz" class="com.javaskool.Customer" method="execute">
<result name="success">/welcome.jsp</result>
<result name="failure">/failure.jsp</result>
</action>

</package>

</struts>

jar files required in lib folder

Note: List of jar files differ as per project

commons-fileupload-1.2.2
commons-io-2.0.1
commons-lang-2.4
commons-lang3-3.1
commons-logging-1.1.1
commons-logging-api-1.1

freemarker-2.3.19
javassist-3.11.0.GA

ognl-3.0.5
struts2-core-2.3.4
xwork-core-2.3.4

Click Here to download all jar files required for basic Struts 2.x Application

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>02_FirstStruts2WebAppl</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

<filter>
<filter-name>f3</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class> 
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>f3</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

</filter-mapping> 

</web-app>
 

Output

If you enter any other name than “tom”, will return below screen.

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