步骤一、先写好图片生成的工具类:

public final class ImageUtil {

private static final char[] chars = { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6',

'7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I' };

private static final int SIZE = 4;

private static final int LINES = 5;

private static final int WIDTH = 100;

private static final int HEIGHT = 45;

private static final int FONT_SIZE = 30;


/**

* 随机生成一个图片对象。

* 返回Map类型，key是图片中的文字，

* value是图片对象

*/

public static Map<String, BufferedImage> createImage() {

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

BufferedImage p_w_picpath = new BufferedImage(WIDTH, HEIGHT,

BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);

Graphics graphic = p_w_picpath.getGraphics();

graphic.setColor(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);

graphic.fillRect(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT);

Random ran = new Random();

// 画随机字符

for (int i = 1; i <= SIZE; i++) {

int r = ran.nextInt(chars.length);

graphic.setColor(getRandomColor());

graphic.setFont(new Font(null, Font.BOLD + Font.ITALIC, FONT_SIZE));

graphic.drawString(chars[r] + "", (i - 1) * WIDTH / SIZE,

(HEIGHT-HEIGHT/3) );

sb.append(chars[r]);

}

// 画干扰线

for (int i = 1; i <= LINES; i++) {

graphic.setColor(getRandomColor());

graphic.drawLine(ran.nextInt(WIDTH), ran.nextInt(HEIGHT),

ran.nextInt(WIDTH), ran.nextInt(HEIGHT));

}

Map<String, BufferedImage> map = new HashMap<String, BufferedImage>();

map.put(sb.toString(), p_w_picpath);

return map;

}


public static Color getRandomColor() {

Random ran = new Random();

Color color = new Color(ran.nextInt(256), ran.nextInt(256),

ran.nextInt(256));

return color;

}


/**

* 将图片对象转换为输入流

* @param p_w_picpath 图片对象

* @return 输入流

* @throws IOException

*/

public static InputStream getInputStream(BufferedImage p_w_picpath)

throws IOException {

ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

JPEGImageEncoder encoder = JPEGCodec.createJPEGEncoder(bos);

encoder.encode(p_w_picpath);

byte[] p_w_picpathBts = bos.toByteArray();

InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(p_w_picpathBts);

return in;

}


}


步骤二、在Action中生成验证码：

/**

* 生成验证码

* @return

*/

public String createValidCode(){

//1调用组件生成图片和验证码

Map<String,BufferedImage> p_w_picpathMap = 

ImageUtil.createImage();

//2将验证码记录到Session,验证时要用

String p_w_picpathCode = 

p_w_picpathMap.keySet().iterator().next();

session.setAttribute("p_w_picpathCode", p_w_picpathCode);

System.out.println("===========存入session中的code:"+p_w_picpathCode);

//3将生成的图片转换成输入流，赋值给输出属性

BufferedImage p_w_picpath = p_w_picpathMap.get(p_w_picpathCode);

try {

p_w_picpathStream = ImageUtil.getInputStream(p_w_picpath);

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

return "error";

}

//4返回success,找到对应的result做输出

return "success";

}


/**

* 校验验证码是否正确

* @return

* @throws IOException 

*/

public String checkValidCode() throws IOException{

System.out.println("页面输入框传过来的code:"+code);

validateCode=(String) session.getAttribute("p_w_picpathCode");

//如果输入的跟生成的验证码相同，则通过

if(code.equalsIgnoreCase(validateCode)){

pass=true;

System.out.println(pass);

response.getWriter().write(pass+"");

return null;

  }else{

pass=false;

System.out.println(pass);

response.getWriter().write(pass+"");

return null;

}

}

步骤三、配置struts.xml:
<!-- 生成登录验证码的action -->
	     <action name="validateCode" 
	      class="userAction" method="createValidCode">
	       <result name="success" type="stream">
	         <param name="inputName">p_w_picpathStream</param>
	       </result>
	     </action>
 <!-- 用来验证的action -->
	     <action name="checkValidateCode"
	         class="userAction" method="checkValidCode">
	     </action>	
	     
步骤四、HTML和JS代码：
<div class="ggg">验证码</div>
                        <div class="gggt" style="width:280px;">
                            <input type="text" style="width:96%" class="yun yun2" name="validCode" id="input1" placeholder="必填" onFocus="if (this.placeholder == '必填') {this.placeholder = '';this.style.background='#EEEEEE';}" onBlur="if (this.placeholder == '') {this.placeholder = '必填';this.style.background='#FFFFFF';}">
                        
                        </div>
                        
                        <br/>
                        
                        <div style="width:168px;height:45px; vertical-align:middle;margin:0 auto;clear:both;">
                           <img src="validateCode.do" alt="验证码" title="点击更换" οnclick="change(this);"/>
                           <span  margin-top="14px" class="required" id="span1"></span>
                        </div>

<script>

  

 var pass=false;

        $(function(){

        $('#input1').blur(function(){

        var code=$(this).val();

          $.post(

        'checkValidateCode.do',

        {'code':code},

        function(data){        

          if(data=="true"){

          $('#span1').html("验证码正确").css('color','green');

          pass=true;        

        }else{

        $('#span1').html("验证码错误").css('color','red');

        pass=false;

        }

        }

        );

        });

        });

        function change(imgObj){

        imgObj.src="validateCode.do?date="+new Date().getTime();

        }

</script>