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Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for building enterprise-ready Java web applications. Distributions of Struts 2 are available as a free download under the Apache License.

• For more about the Apache Struts project itself, visit the project web site.
• Quickstart with Struts 2 Maven Archetypes.
• Struts 2 is extended using Plugins. A list of available plugins is available at the Struts 2 Plugin Registry.
• Tired of XML-based configurations, or need some extra agility? Try the Convention Plugin or its RESTful cousin, the REST Plugin.
• Interested in books, articles, and presentations about Struts? Check out some Other Resources.
• For other community-supported Struts resources, visit the Struts 2 Wiki.

The documentation is grouped into four areas.

Community Wiki

The Struts 2 Community Wiki is an additional resource. It is not distributed with Struts 2, and contributions to the community wiki do not require a CLA.

Quick Links

• Apache Struts Home
• Distributions
• Project FAQ
• Mailing lists
• Issue Tracking (JIRA)
• Struts 2 Wiki space

Welcome to the WebWork wiki. WebWork's official homepage is http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork/. There you can find documentation for the latest released version of WebWork. This wiki is used for additional information as well as documentation for the latest developing version.

About WebWork

• Introduction
• Features
• Basic principles, Design Goals
• History, Team
• Contributing
• Bugs and issues (direct)
• Articles, Press releases, Testimonials, Projects using WebWork
• Comparison to other web frameworks
• License

Getting Started

• Download (current, stable, continous builds, previous versions)
• Installation
• Requirements (dependencies, appservers)
• Quickstart
• Tutorial
• Building WebWork

Reference

• API
• Basics
  • Architecture
  • Configuration Files (web.xml, xwork.xml, webwork.properties, webwork-default.xml, velocity.properties)
  • XWork Configuration
  • Interceptors
  • Result Types
  • Exception Handling
• Advanced
  • Action Chaining
  • Inversion of Control (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

Users

• Testing
• Best Practices
• Code snippets and example applications
• Performance Tuning

Developers & Contributors

• Style Guide
• Source code
• Java.net Project page
• Ivy

Integration, Tools, IDE

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

Help

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• WW Users (direct)
• WW Development Team (direct)

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