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Getting the Sample applications to work on 1.4.x

What are the Struts 2 included sample applications ?

The sample applications available with Struts 2.x include:
struts2-blank-2.0.x.war
struts2-mailreader-2.0.x.war
struts2-portlet-2.0.x.war
struts2-showcase-2.0.x.war

More Information on the Sample sample applications can be found here:

• http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/tutorials.html

What are the required Jars

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present in the sample applications ?

The sample application jars include:

commons-collections-3.1
freemarker-2.3.4
spring-aop-1.2.8
spring-context-1.2.8
spring-web-1.2.8
struts2-core-2.0.1
commons-logging-1.0.4
ognl-2.6.7
spring-beans-1.2.8
spring-core-1.2.8
struts2-api-2.0.1
xwork-2.0-beta-1

Where can the alternative "java 1.4.x" jars be found?

The Java 1.4.x zip file can be found (i.e. struts-2.0.x-j4.zip) :

• http://www.apache.org/dist/struts/binaries/

What else must you do ?

There is a backport folder located in the j4 zip file.

Altenatively, you can find the backport files here:

• http://people.apache.org/builds/struts/nightlies/2.0.x/java-1.4/backport/

In summary the steps you should perform:

• You must put these files contained in backport folder into your WEB-INF/lib folder. I got the files from the backport folder in nightlies which i copied to ... \WebContent\WEB-INF\lib
• There is a translate.bat file located in the backport file. You can run this bat file to
  convert your Java 5 jars into j4. I modified the translate.bat as follows:

java -jar retrotranslator-transformer-1.0.8.jar -srcjar struts2-core-2.0.1.jar -destjar struts2-core-j4-2.0.1.jar
java -jar retrotranslator-transformer-1.0.8.jar -srcjar struts2-api-2.0.1.jar -destjar struts2-api-j4-2.0.1.jar
java -jar retrotranslator-transformer-1.0.8.jar -srcjar xwork-2.0-beta-1 -destjar xwork-2.0-j4.jar

• invoke translate.bat
• It is important to note that you will have to replace the following jars mentioned above with java 1.4.x equivalents:
  struts2-core-2.0.1 with struts2-core-j4-2.0.1.jar
  struts2-api-2.0.1 with struts2-api-j4-2.0.1.jar
  xwork-2.0-beta-1 with xwork-2.0-j4.jar

Note: You can either use the translate bat file to get j4 jars or get it from the j4 zip download.

What jars should you have in your WEB-INF/lib folder after performing these steps:

commons-collections-3.1
commons-beanutils-1.6
commons-digester-1.6
commons-logging-1.0.4
freemarker-2.3.4
spring-aop-1.2.8
spring-context-1.2.8
spring-web-1.2.8
retrotranslator-runtime-1.0.8
retrotranslator-transformer-1.0.8
ognl-2.6.7
spring-beans-1.2.8
spring-core-1.2.8
struts2-core-j4-2.0.1
struts2-api-j4-2.0.1
xwork-2.0-j4
backport-util-concurrent