THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
The Bootstrap tutorial walks through installing the framework and creating a simple application.
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Be forewarned that While the framework is geared toward professional developers. To create simple to use, creating non-trivial applications , assumes a working knowledge of several key technologies is required.many JEE technologies, including:
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A distribution can be downloaded from the Apache Struts website. The full distribution contains the struts2-core.jar file and ,related dependencies, example applications, a copy of the documentation in HTML format, and the complete source code.
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To get started with a new application, we can use the blank template, run the Maven archetype, or just setup set up a web infrastructure from scratch.
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For those of us using Maven as a build system, we can use the Maven Archetype to create a new application.
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mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=tutorial \
-DartifactId=tutorial \
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.struts \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=struts2-archetype-starter \
-DarchetypeVersion=2.0.2-SNAPSHOT \
-DremoteRepositories=http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository
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The archetype command creates an application template. For more information, see Struts Maven ArchetypeFor directions on using the Struts 2 archetypes see the Struts 2 Maven Archetypes page.
Setting up from scratch
If for some reason the blank template or archetype doesn't work out, it's not so hard to setup a Struts 2 application from scratch. For details, see Simple Setup.
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