Currently only in beta-status, an xwork-tiger project exists that is starting to add some basic J2SE 5 ("Tiger") support to WebWork. Currently, the only Java 5 implementation in xwork-tiger.jar is a Map and Collection support using generics.

In short, instead of specifying the types found in collections and maps as documented in Type Conversion, the collection's generic type is used. This means you most likely don't need any ClassName-conversion.properties files.

Work in progress

This is a work in progress and not yet finished! More complex examples will follow. For now, have a look at the unit tests within the xwork-tiger project path.

Interceptor Annotations

Annotation	Description
After Annotation	Marks a action method that needs to be executed before the result.
Before Annotation	Marks a action method that needs to be executed before the main action method.
BeforeResult Annotation	Marks a action method that needs to be executed before the result.

Validation Annotations

If you want to use annotation based validation, you have to annotate the class or interface with Validation Annotation.

These are the standard validator annotations that come with XWork-tiger:

Annotation	Description
ConversionErrorFieldValidator Annotation
DateRangeFieldValidator Annotation
EmailValidator Annotation
ExpressionValidator Annotation
FieldExpressionValidator Annotation
IntRangeFieldValidator Annotation
RegexFieldValidator Annotation
RequiredFieldValidator Annotation
RequiredStringValidator Annotation
StringLengthFieldValidator Annotation
StringRegexValidator Annotation
UrlValidator Annotation
Validation Annotation	Marker annotation for validation at Type level.
Validations Annotation	Used to group validation annotations.
VisitorFieldValidator Annotation

Type Conversion Annotations

If you want to use annotation based type conversion, you have to annotate the class or interface with the Conversion Annotation.

Annotation	Description
Conversion Annotation	Marker annotation for type conversions at Type level.
KeyProperty Annotation
TypeConversion Annotation	Used for class and application wide conversion rules.

Create XXX-conversion.properties via "ant apt" target

This is an example for the apt ant target:

    <target name="apt">
        <mkdir dir="${build}/generated"/>

        <path id="classpath">
            <pathelement path="${basedir}/build/java"/>
            <pathelement path="${basedir}/build/test"/>
            <!-- xwork.jar and xwork-tiger.jar must be in one of the following lib dirs -->
            <fileset dir="${basedir}/lib/build" includes="*.jar"/>
            <fileset dir="${basedir}/lib/default" includes="*.jar"/>
            <fileset dir="${basedir}/lib/spring" includes="*.jar"/>
        </path>

        <property name="pclasspath" refid="classpath"/>

        <!-- Change the includes attribute value to match your annotated java files -->
        <fileset id="sources" dir="." includes="src/test/**/*.java" />

        <pathconvert pathsep=" " property="sourcefiles" refid="sources"/>

        <echo>

            CLASSPATH ${pclasspath}

            SOURCES: ${sourcefiles}

        </echo>

        <exec executable="apt" >
            <arg value="-s"/>
            <arg value="${build}/generated"/>
            <arg value="-classpath"/>
            <arg pathref="classpath"/>
            <arg value="-nocompile"/>
            <arg value="-factory"/>
            <arg value="com.opensymphony.xwork.apt.XWorkProcessorFactory"/>
            <arg line="${sourcefiles}"/>
        </exec>
    </target>

Child pages

J2SE 5 Support

Interceptor Annotations

Validation Annotations

Type Conversion Annotations

Create XXX-conversion.properties via "ant apt" target