Other Resources

Other Resources

Several Struts 2 books, articles, and presentations are available elsewhere.

Books

Articles

Articles are organized into the categories Adoption and Migration, Ajax, CRUD and Data Access, General, Getting Started.

Adoption and Migration

• Adopting Struts 2.0 (S. Sangeetha and S. V. Subrahmanya)
• Comparing Struts 1 and Struts 2 (Michael Klaene)
• Migrating Struts Apps to Struts 2 (Ian Roughly)
• Migrating to Apache Struts 2: A tutorial for Struts 1 Developers. (Ted Husted)

Ajax

• Ajax CRUD with Struts 2 and Tibco GI (Brian Walsh)
• Ajax programming with Struts 2 (Oleg Mikheev)
• Ajax support in struts 2.0 (Jesintha Priyadarshini L)
• Easy AJAX with Struts 2 (firstpartners.net)
• Struts 2 + Spring 2 + JPA + AJAX (Musachy Barroso)
• (Struts 1) AjaxChat: Chatting, the AJAX Way! (Frank Zammetti)
• Struts 2 JSON and dojo.rpc (Portuguese) (Diego Carrion)

Blogs about Struts

• Abhi on Java (Abhi Vuyyuru)
• Macaroni (Ted Husted)
• Mark's Struts 2 Cookbook (Mark Menard)
• Struts 2 Help and Reference

CRUD and Data Access

• Ajax CRUD with Struts 2 and Tibco GI (Brian Walsh)
• CRUD with WebWork, Spring, and JSTL (Larry Meador)
• Easy CRUD with Struts 2 (QuickTime video with Matt Raible - 8 minute)
• Struts 2 + Spring 2 + JPA + AJAX (Musachy Barrosso)
• Struts 2 CRUD Example (Philip Luppens)

General

• AppFuse and Struts 2 (Matt Raible)
• Building Struts 2 Apps without XML Gluecode (Ted Husted)
• Extending an Application with Custom Plugins (Musachy Barrosso)
• Integrating Struts 2 + JSF + Facelets (Matt Raible)
• Leveraging Struts2 Type Conversion (David DeWolf)
• Product Internationalization (Todd McCullough, Jive Software)
• Struts 2 Tags (Rose India)
• Struts 2 wired by Spring (Daniel Ambrósio)
• Struts 2.0 in Action
• Struts URLs for perfectionists (Peter Hilton)
• Working with cookies in Struts 2 (Omkar Patil)
• Struts 2 Tutorials

Getting Started

• Getting Started with Struts2 (Wesley Wannemacher)
• Struts 2 from Square One Draft manuscript covering part one of a four-day training course (Ted Husted)
• Struts 2 Tutorial Struts 2 with Spring and Hibernate using Eclipse (ArcTech Software)($)
• Struts 2 Tutorial (Rose India)

Testing

• Action Unit Testing With Struts 2.0
• Integration Testing Struts 2, Spring, and Hibernate JPA
• Unit Testing Struts 2 Actions wired with Spring using JUnit (arsenalist)

Validation

• Struts 2.0 Validations using Annotations (Krishna Srinivasan)
• Validation using Annotations (arsenalist)

Presentations

• Animated Tutorial for Struts2 (Mohammad SeyedAlavi)
  • PowerPoint version ZIP download (may not render correctly under OpenOffice)
  • PDF version ZIP download (without animation)
• Coding Ajax Applications with Struts (Ted Husted)
• Migrating From Struts 1 to Struts 2 presentation (Matt Raible)
• Retrofitting Struts for Ajax Taglibs (Ted Husted)
• WebWork 2 presentation (Jason Carreira)

Tools

• Strutson. Command line to generate applications based on Hibernate, JPA, Spring and Convention Plugin. It supports generation of actions, CRUD views and services from model classes.