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If you want to use the Spring as the object factory for your actions, then follow these steps:

1. Place your Spring xml files under /META-INF/spring in the bundle jar file
2. Copy all these jar files into /WEB-INF/classes/bundles in your application
3. Make sure that the following properties are set(with the listed values) or not set at all in struts.xml or struts.properties in your webapp application:

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   <constant name="struts.objectFactory" value="osgi" /> <constant name="struts.objectFactory.delegate" value="spring" /> <constant name="struts.freemarker.manager.classname" value="org.apache.struts2.osgi.BundleFreemarkerManager" />

4. Place your Spring xml files under /META-INF/spring in the jar file
5. Install the Struts 2 Spring plugin in your application
6. Add

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   <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> </listener>

   to web.xml and an empty applicationContext.xml:

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   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd"> <beans></beans>

   under /WEB-INF/ in your application. This is a hack, but the Spring support doesn't work otherwise. TODO: find a way around this dirty hackInstall the Struts 2 Spring plugin in your application
7. If you are going to use Velocity results, then add Velocity and Common Digester jars to your application. Using maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>velocity</groupId>
    <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
    <version>1.5</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>velocity-tools</groupId>
    <artifactId>velocity-tools</artifactId>
    <version>1.3</version>
</dependency>
        
<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
    <version>1.8</version>
</dependency>

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