The framework documentation is written for active web developers and assumes a working knowledge about how Java web applications are built. For more about the underlying nuts and bolts, see the Key Technologies Primer.
Several tutorials are available to help you get started with the framework, from all-purpose "soup to nuts" tutorials to specialty tutorials on portlets and database access.
Primers
Speciality
- Extending an Application with Custom Plugins
- CRUD Made Easy
- JasperReports Tutorial
- Portlet Tutorial (WebWork 2.2)
- Developing a Portlet using Eclipse
Examples
Several example applications are bundled with the framework, as ready-to-deploy WARs.
An "empty" application that you can use as the starting point for your own projects. |
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A sampling of common (and not so common) use cases. |
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A simple application that demonstrates best practices. |
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Portlet |
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Simple examples and links to "powered by" sites |
For the complete source code to the applications, see the source code distribution.
Books
- Starting with Struts 2 (Ian Roughley), PDF and print.
- Struts 2 Design and Programming (Bud Kurniawan), print-only, pre-order only
- WebWork in Action book (Patrick Lightbody, Jason Carreira), print only.
- Most of WW2 in Action applies to Struts 2. The Struts 2 package names changed, and we've added some features, but the fundamentals remain the same. From a technical perspective, Struts 2 is WebWork 3.
Other Resources
- Ajax CRUD with Struts 2 and Tibco GI (Brian Walsh)
- Ajax support in struts 2.0 (Jesintha Priyadarshini L)
- AppFuse and Struts 2 (Matt Raible)
- CRUD with WebWork, Spring, and JSTL (Larry Meador)
- Easy CRUD with Struts 2 (QuickTime video with Matt Raible - 8 minute)
- Easy AJAX with Struts 2 (firstpartners.net)
- Getting Started with Struts2 (Wesley Wannemacher)
- Integrating Struts 2 + JSF + Facelets (Matt Raible)
- Mark's Struts 2 Cookbook (Mark Menard)
- Migrating Struts Apps to Struts 2 (Ian Roughly)
- Migrating to Apache Struts 2: A tutorial for Struts 1 Developers. (Ted Husted)
- Product Internationalization (Todd McCullough, Jive Software)
- Struts 2 from Square One Draft manuscript covering part one of a four-day training course (Ted Husted)
- Struts 2 Tags (Rose India)
- Struts 2 Tutorial Struts 2 with Spring and Hibernate using Eclipse (ArcTech Software)($)
- Struts 2 Tutorial (Rose India)
- Struts 2 wired by Spring (Daniel Ambrósio)
- Struts 2.0 Validations using Annotations (Krishna Srinivasan)
- Unit Testing Struts 2 Actions wired with Spring using JUnit (arsenlist)
Community Wiki
- Struts 2 Wiki - The Struts 2 Wiki is a community-supported resource. To contribute to the wiki space, simply create an Confluence account. The wiki space is not bundled with the Struts 2 distribution, but it is still an exciting and valuable community resource!
Errata?
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