THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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Setup a log4j.xml configuration in the src folder. You can copy the one from the example application, which contains the following
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration PUBLIC "-//log4j/log4j Configuration//EN" "log4j.dtd">
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
<appender name="STDOUT" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
<layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %c.%M:%L - %m%n"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<!-- specify the logging level for loggers from other libraries -->
<logger name="com.opensymphony">
<level value="DEBUG" />
</logger>
<logger name="org.apache.struts2">
<level value="DEBUG" />
</logger>
<!-- for all other loggers log only debug and above log messages -->
<root>
<priority value="INFO"/>
<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
</root>
</log4j:configuration>
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To enable the Struts 2 framework to work with your web application you need to add a Servlet filter class and filter mapping to web.xml. Below is the filter and filter-mapping nodes you should add to web.xml.
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<filter> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> |
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Struts 2 can use either an XML configuration file or annotations (or both) to specify the relationship between a URL, a Java class, and a view page (such as index.jsp). For our basic Struts 2 application, we'll use a minimal xml configuration. Note the file name is struts.xml and it should be in the src folder (struts.xml must be on the web application's root class path).
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
<struts>
<constant name="struts.devMode" value="true" />
<package name="basicstruts2" extends="struts-default">
<action name="index">
<result>/index.jsp</result>
</action>
</package>
</struts>
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Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080/Basic_Struts2_Ant/index.action (note that's index.action not index.jsp at the end of the URL). You should see the same web page as when going to http://localhost:8080/Basic_Struts2_Ant/index.jsp. View the log messages written to the console and you should find several that discuss index.action and index.jsp:
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com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionProxy.debug:57 - Creating an DefaultActionProxy for namespace / and action name index ... org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ServletDispatcherResult.debug:57 - Forwarding to location /index.jsp |
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