The following is a roadmap proposal that hasn't been approved or accepted by the Struts 2 project.
Struts 2.1
- New plugins: REST, Dojo, DWR, Portlet, JUnit, and TestNG
- Internal API cleanups
Struts 2.2
- Finalize zero configuration strategy with new Conventions plugin
- Move REST Plugin over to use Conventions plugin, if necessary
- Ensure full legacy support
- Scope consolidation
- OSGi Plugin?
- Public API
- Add support for multiple UnknownHandler(s)
Struts 2.5
- 2.5 and not 2.3 to reflect important changes in xwork
- Guice 1.0
- Reworked localization
- JSR 303 (Bean Validation) support
- Built-in command line tool like Grails