Update Samples Project to Struts2 part2

2. Configure Struts2

(1) web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee

    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

    <context-param>

        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>

        <param-value>

            /WEB-INF/classes/org/xqtu/samples/bean/samples-common.xml,

            /WEB-INF/classes/org/xqtu/samples/bean/samples-jndi.xml,

            /WEB-INF/classes/org/xqtu/samples/bean/samples-dao-hibernate.xml,

            /WEB-INF/classes/org/xqtu/samples/bean/samples-services.xml,

            /WEB-INF/classes/org/xqtu/samples/bean/samples-actions.xml

        </param-value>

    </context-param>

    <listener>

        <listener-class>

            org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener

        </listener-class>

    </listener>

    <filter>

        <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>

        <filter-class>

            org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher

        </filter-class>

    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>

        <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>

        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

    </filter-mapping>

    <welcome-file-list>

        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>

    </welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

l        Struts2 use FilterDispatcher filter to inspect the incoming requests looking for requests target to Struts2 actions. And url pattern “/*” means the filter will inspect all requests.

l        To create Spring container, we use Spring ContextLoaderListener listener. And pass in parameter contextConfigLocation to the listener to specify appropriate locations.

(2) struts.xml(located WEB-INF/classes/)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC

"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"

"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">

<struts>

    <constant name="struts.devMode" value="true" />

    <package name="default" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">

        <action name="LoginInput">

            <result>/WEB-INF/jsp/login.jsp</result>

        </action>

        <action name="Login" class="loginAction">

            <result>/WEB-INF/jsp/success.jsp</result>

            <result name="input">/WEB-INF/jsp/login.jsp</result>

        </action>

    </package>

</struts>

l        The entry point into the Struts2 XML declarative architecture is the struts.xml file. It can include other XML documents, allowing for modularization.

l        The struts element is the mandatory document root of all Struts2 XML files.

l        The package element declares a namespace that’ll be used when the framework maps URLs to these actions. For instance,

http://localhost:8080/Struts2Spring/Login.action

Ø        The URL combines the servlet context(/Struts2Spring) with the package namespace(/) and the action name (Login.action). Note that the action name takes the .action extension.

l        The action element declares the action mapping with a logic name.

Ø        Use empty action components to forward to your results, even if they’re simple JSPs that require no dynamic processing, just like LoginInput action.

Ø        If you needs a really action to process business logic, you can use class attribute to specify action class.

Ø        For Spring integration, the class attribute specify Spring bean ID, just like Login action.

l        Each result element names a JSP page that it will use to render the result page. If the name attribute is omitted, use default “success”

(3) samples-action.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">

    <!-- Struts Action config -->

    <bean name="loginAction"

        class="org.xqtu.samples.web.action.LoginAction">

        <property name="userService" ref="userService" />

    </bean>

</beans>

l        Here we change the bean ID to consist with the class attribute in the action mapping.