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Welcome to the Apache Struts Action Framework 2: Java's cutting-edge web development platform!

QuickStart

The best way to get started with any new technology can be to just jump in and try it out. If you agree, download a distribution and take our QuickStart feature for a spin.

About Struts Action Framework 2

• Features
• Release Notes
• Dcumentation
• Announcements
• Product History
  • Comparing SAF1 and SAF2
  • Merger with Apache Struts
  • Our WebWork roots

Getting Started

Several tutorials are available to help you get started with the framework. Once you download a distribution, be sure to try the QuickStart feature.

Tutorials

• SAF Step by Step
• Philip Luppens' WebWork CRUD Made Easy
• Larry Meador's CRUD with WebWork, Spring, and JSTL
• Touring the MailReader
• MailReader Training Course
• Portlet Tutorial

Distributions

• For now, SAF2 may be checked out from the incubator repository.

  • Code Block
    svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/webwork2/

  • A SAF2 distribution will be available once the codebase exits the Apache Incubator
    • A distribution of WebWork2 is available from OpenSymphony.
• What about QuickStart?

Documentation

The SAF2 documentation is maintained online, posted to the Apache Struts web site on a regular basis, and also bundled with each release. The online version represents the latest development version ("nightly build") and may document features not available in your release. See the documenation bundled with each release for the best information about the features available in that release. Release documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.

• HTML format: docs/Documentation.html
• PDF format: docs/docs.pdf
• Javadocs: docs/api/index.html

Requirements

• Dependencies
• Application Servers

Getting Help

• Mailing lists
• Issue Tracking (JIRA)
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • SAF2 FAQ
    • The Vault (interesting posts from the forum)
  • Apache Struts FAQs
• Apache Struts Website
• Event Calendar

Coding Applications

• Testing
• Code snippets (Cookbook) and example applications

Plugins, Tools, and Extensions

• IDE Plugins: Eclipse, IntelliJ
• Tools (SiteGraph, Config Browser, QuickStart)
• 3rd Party Extensions: SiteMesh, Spring, Pico, Hibernate, JSTL, JUnit, Quartz, Tiles

Reference

• API
• Basics
  • Architecture
  • Configuration Files (web.xml, action.xml, action.properties, action-default.xml, velocity.properties)
  • XWork Configuration
  • Interceptors
  • Result Types
  • Exception Handling
• Advanced
  • Action Chaining
  • Dependency Injection (IOC)
  • Type Conversion
  • Validation
  • Internationalization
  • Continuations
  • ActionMapper
• UI/Views
  • Tags
    • General (Control Tags, Data Tags)
    • HTML (Form Tags, Non Form Tags)
  • OGNL (syntax, altsyntax)
  • View technlogies
    • JSP (specific tags)
    • Freemarker (specific tags)
    • Velocity (specific tags)
    • JasperReports
  • Themes and Templates
  • Components
• J2SE 5 Support (Annotations)
• Portlets (tutorial, configuration)

Resources

• Articles
• Testimonials
• Projects using WebWork
• Planet Struts
• Struts Central

Contributor Resources

• How to Contribute
• Building the Framework from Source
• Style Guide
• Ivy
• Project incubation page
• Who We Are
• Source code repository

More Help with WebWork2

• WebWork Forum
  • WW Users (direct)
• Chat (Chat logs)