Apache Struts 2 provides a simple plugin architecture so that develpers can extend the framework just by adding a JAR to the application's classpath (in addition to whatever JARs may be required to fulfill the dependencies of the plugin itself). Since plugins are contained in a JAR, they are easy to share with others. Here, we list plugins available for Struts 2 and provides help on how to use them.
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AnnouncementsTitle Author Date Posted
JFW plugin
Takis Spiropoulos Nov 02, 2008 03:15
Hibernate Session Plugin 1.5 Released
José Yoshiriro Oct 21, 2008 10:43
Hibernate Session Plugin
José Yoshiriro Oct 08, 2008 09:25
JCaptcha4Struts2 - JCaptcha Plugin
Yohan Liyanage Sep 18, 2008 10:24
JFW plugin
Takis Spiropoulos Sep 10, 2008 09:18
Resin-IoC 3.1.5 plugin
Scott Ferguson Mar 09, 2008 15:44
Scope Plugin Released
Tom Schneider Nov 03, 2007 14:36
Rome RSS+Atom 0.2 plugin released
Philip Luppens Oct 30, 2007 15:56
Ajax File Upload Plugin
Dave Casserly Oct 25, 2007 09:30
AjaxParts Taglib plugin v1.0 released
Frank W. Zammetti Oct 22, 2007 12:06
DataVision plug-in v1.0 released
Frank W. Zammetti Sep 23, 2007 21:22
HDIV Plugin 2.0 Released
Gorka Vicente Sep 14, 2007 00:52
LightBoxJS 0.1 Plugin Released
Derik Vercueil Sep 01, 2007 05:30
JSCalendar 0.3 Plugin Released
Derik Vercueil Aug 28, 2007 03:02
JSCalendar 0.2 Plugin Released
Derik Vercueil Aug 17, 2007 08:11
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Plugins
- Breadcrumbs Plugin — is designed to capture bread crumbs. It can be configured many ways
- Codebehind Plugin — reduces mundane configuration by adding "Page Controller" conventions
- Config Browser Plugin — a simple tool to help view your Struts configuration at runtime
- Connext Graph Plugin — allows web applications to make use of the Open Flash Chart charts
- Convention Plugin — a code by convention and component plugin similar to the Codebehind and Zero-config plugins
- DataVision Plugin — provides support for DataVision, a popular open-source reporting package
- DWR Plugin — provides integration with the Ajax framework Direct Web Remoting

- EJB3 JBoss plugin — allows EJB3 session beans to be injected into Struts 2 actions
- EJB3 plugin — allows EJB3 session beans to be injected into Struts 2 actions
- ExtraTags Plugin — provides a set of additional tags that complement the core UI tags
- Grails Plugin — allows Grails applications to be run in Struts 2
- Groovy Plugin — provides support for Actions (and Interceptors) written in the Groovy language
- Guice Plugin — allows Actions, Interceptors, and Results to be injected by Guice
- GWT Plugin — can be used to call methods on Struts actions using Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
- HDIV Plugin — integrates HDIV (HTTP Data Integrity Validator)
with Struts 2 adding Security functionalities - Hibernate Session Plugin
- Hibernate Session Plugin 1.5 released
- Image Plugin — collection of various plugins for image handling (thumbnails, remote storage, validator)
- JasperReports Plugin — enables Actions to return reports through JasperReports
- JFreeChart Plugin — allows Actions to easily return generated charts and graphs
- JRuby Plugin — provides support for Actions written in JRuby
- JSCalendar Plugin — a backport of the Webwork 2.2.6 JSCalendar
tag - JSF Plugin — provides support for JavaServer Faces components with no additional configuration
- JSON Plugin — provides a "json" result type that serializes actions into JSON
- JUnit Plugin — provides integration with the popular JUnit
unit testing framework - LightBoxJS Plugin — makes it easier to use the popular LightBoxJS
script - OSGi Plugin — leverages OSGi to allow Struts 2 applications to be divided into multiple jars (bundles) and managed at runtime
- Pell Multipart Plugin — instructs Struts to use Jason Pell's multipart parser
to process file uploads - Plexus Plugin — enables Struts Actions, Interceptors, and Results to be created and injected by Plexus

- Portlet Plugin — is used for developing JSR168 portlets using Struts 2
- REST Plugin — provides tools to build RESTful applications
- Rome RSS-Atom Plugin — allows easy outputting of Rome SyndFeed objects (RSS, Atom)
- Scope Plugin — implements JBoss Seam-style scoped bijection and conversation management
- SiteGraph Plugin — generates graphical diagrams representing the flow of your web application
- Sitemesh Plugin — allows Sitemesh templates to access Struts information
- SmartURLs plugin — a code by convention and component plugin similar to the Codebehind and Zero-config plugins
- Spring MVC Plugin — allows Spring MVC controllers and interceptors to be executed in Struts 2
- Spring Plugin — allows Actions, Interceptors, and Results to be created and/or autowired by Spring
- Spring Webflow Plugin — integrates Spring Webflow
(SWF) with Struts 2 - Struts 1 Plugin — allows you to use existing Struts 1 Actions and ActionForms in Struts 2 applications
- Table Tags Plugin — Struts 2 tags for displaying table data
- TestNG Plugin — provides integration with the popular TestNG
unit testing framework - Tiles Plugin — allows actions to return Tiles pages
- Unified EL Plugin — allows Unified EL to be used as the expression language in Struts 2
- WebWork2 Plugin — allows webwork actions and configuration to be used in Struts 2
- YUI Plugin — provides tags based on YUI
| Have a bug report or feature request? - The registry lists plugins made available by various authors. To file a report regarding a third-party plugin, visit the homepage for the plugin in question. (Most of the external plugins are hosted by Google Code, and you can file an Issue there.) If the report regards a plugin bundled with the Apache Struts distribution, then (and only then) use the Struts issue tracker |
