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As with the Codebehind Plugin, the first step is to tell the plugin where to find your resource action classes. Modify the configuration of your Struts 2 filter in web.xml and add the 'actionPackages' init-param like so:

   <filter>
        <filter-name>action2</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class>
        <init-param>
        	<param-name>actionPackages</param-name>
        	<param-value>org.apache.struts2.rest.example</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>

{snippet:url=rest-plugin/showcase/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml|id=filter|lang=xml}

Next, create Java objects ending in "Resource" in the configured package. The "Resource" suffix is used to distinguish Rest action resources from regular Struts 2 actions, although it is completely optional and they are functionally the same. Now, add in methods to handle the various requests. For example, the following resource action will support /orders/34 GET and PUT requests:

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