Under Construction
We're in the process of migrating this wiki from Open Symphony WebWork2 to Struts Action Framework 2. WebWork is in the process of joining the Apache Struts project. See our incubator page for details. During the migration period, references to WebWork2 and SAF2 will be intermixed.
Welcome to the Apache Struts Action Framework 2: Java's cutting-edge web development platform!
The SAF2 documentation is maintained online, posted to the Apache Struts web site on a regular basis, and also bundled with each release. The online version represents the latest development version ("nightly build") and may document features not available in your release. See the documenation bundled with each release for the best information about the features available in that release. Release documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
- HTML format: docs/Documentation.html
- PDF format: docs/docs.pdf
- Javadocs: docs/api/index.html
QuickStart
The best way to get started with any new technology can be to just jump in and try it out. If you agree, download a distribution and take our QuickStart feature for a spin.
- Download and extract a distribution
- Open a command prompt to the root directory of the distribution
- Using a Java 5 JDK, execute:
java -jar webwork-2.2.jar quickstart:showcase
- Open your browser to the URL:
- Feel free to edit any of the sources (.java, .jsp) in:
webapps/showcase
- Reload your browser to see the changes right away
About Struts Action Framework 2
- Features
- Release Notes
- Announcements
- Product History
Getting Started
Several tutorials are available to help you get started with the framework. Once you download a distribution, be sure to try the QuickStart feature.
Tutorials
- SAF Step by Step
- Philip Luppens' WebWork CRUD Made Easy
- Larry Meador's CRUD with WebWork, Spring, and JSTL
- Touring the MailReader
- MailReader Training Course
- Portlet Tutorial
Distributions
- For now, SAF2 may be checked out from the incubator repository.
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/webwork2/
- A SAF2 distribution will be available once the codebase exits the Apache Incubator
- A distribution of WebWork2 is available from OpenSymphony.
- What about QuickStart?
Requirements
Getting Help
- Mailing lists
- Issue Tracking (JIRA)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- SAF2 FAQ
- The Vault (interesting posts from the forum)
- Apache Struts FAQs
- SAF2 FAQ
- Apache Struts Website
- Event Calendar
Coding Applications
- Testing
- Code snippets (Cookbook) and example applications
Plugins, Tools, and Extensions
- IDE Plugins: Eclipse, IntelliJ
- Tools (SiteGraph, Config Browser, QuickStart)
- 3rd Party Extensions: SiteMesh, Spring, Pico, Hibernate, JSTL, JUnit, Quartz, Tiles
Reference
- API
- Basics
- Advanced
- UI/Views
- Tags
- General (Control Tags, Data Tags)
- HTML (Form Tags, Non Form Tags)
- OGNL (syntax, altsyntax)
- View technlogies
- Themes and Templates
- Components
- Tags
- J2SE 5 Support (Annotations)
- Portlets (tutorial, configuration)
Resources
Contributor Resources
- How to Contribute
- Building the Framework from Source
- Style Guide
- Ivy
- Project incubation page
- Who We Are
- Source code repository