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Packages defined in a plugin can have parent packages that are defined in another plugin. Plugins may define configuration elements with classes not contained in the plugin. Any classes not included in the plugin's JAR must be on the application's classpath at runtime. As from Struts 2.3.5
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To include static resources in your plugins add them under "/static" in your jar. And include them in your page using "/struts" as the path, like in the following example:
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Read also StaticContentLoader JavaDoc.
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The following extension points are available in Struts 2:
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Plugin Examples
Let's look at two similar but different plugins bundled with the core distribution.
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The sitemesh-plugin.jar
contains several classes, a standard JAR manifest, and a plugin configuration file.
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While the SiteMesh Plugin doesn't provide any new results, interceptors, or actions, or even extend any Struts integration points, it does need to know what settings have been enabled in the Struts framework. Therefore, its struts-plugin.xml
looks like this:
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The two bean elements, with the "static" flag enabled, tell Struts to inject the current settings and framework objects into static property setters on startup. This allows, for example, the FreeMarkerPageFilter class to get an instance of the Struts FreemarkerManager and the current encoding setting.
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The tiles-plugin.jar
contains several classes, a standard JAR manifest, and a configuration file.
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Since the Tiles Plugin does need to register configuration elements, a result class, it provides a struts-plugin.xml
file.
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