Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Struts Hello World Example in Eclipse


In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Struts hello world application in eclipse. First create a new project, go to File->New and select DynamicWebProject. 

Enter the project name and click the Finish button.
Add the following jar files to the WEB-INF\lib directory.
Right click the src folder and select New->Package.
Enter the package name as com.vaannila.form and click Finish.
Now right click the newly created package and select New->Class.
Enter the class name as HelloWorldForm and the superclass name asorg.apache.struts.action.ActionForm and click Finish.
In the HelloWorldForm class add the following code.
01.package com.vaannila.form;
02. 
03.import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
04. 
05.public class HelloWorldForm extends ActionForm {
06. 
07.private static final long serialVersionUID = -473562596852452021L;
08. 
09.private String message;
10. 
11.public String getMessage() {
12.return message;
13.}
14. 
15.public void setMessage(String message) {
16.this.message = message;
17.}
18.}
In the same way create a new package com.vaannila.action and create a HelloWorldAction class extending org.apache.struts.action.Action. Add the following code to the action class and save it.
01.package com.vaannila.action;
02. 
03.import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
04.import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
05. 
06.import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
07.import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
08.import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
09.import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
10. 
11.import com.vaannila.form.HelloWorldForm;
12. 
13.public class HelloWorldAction extends Action {
14. 
15.@Override
16.public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throwsException {
17.HelloWorldForm hwForm = (HelloWorldForm) form;
18.hwForm.setMessage("Hello World");
19.return mapping.findForward("success");
20.}
21.}
Here we typecast the ActionForm to HelloWorldForm and set the message value.
Add the following entries in the struts-config.xml file.
01.xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
02. 
03.
04."-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN"
06. 
07.<struts-config>
08. 
09.<form-beans>
10.<form-bean name="helloWorldForm"type="com.vaannila.form.HelloWorldForm"/>
11.</form-beans>
12. 
13.<global-forwards>
14.<forward name="helloWorld" path="/helloWorld.do"/>
15.</global-forwards>
16. 
17.<action-mappings>
18.<action path="/helloWorld"type="com.vaannila.action.HelloWorldAction" name="helloWorldForm">
19.<forward name="success" path="/helloWorld.jsp" />
20.</action>
21.</action-mappings>
22. 
23.</struts-config>
Now configure the deployment descriptor. Add the following configuration information in the web.xmlfile.
01.xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
03.<display-name>StrutsExample1</display-name>
04. 
05.<servlet>
06.<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
07.<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
08.<init-param>
09.<param-name>config</param-name>
10.<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
11.</init-param>
12.<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
13.</servlet>
14. 
15.<servlet-mapping>
16.<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
17.<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
18.</servlet-mapping>
19. 
20.<welcome-file-list>
21.<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
22.</welcome-file-list>
23.</web-app>
When we run the application the index.jsp page will be executed first. In the index.jsp page we redirect the request to the helloWorld.do URI, which inturn invokes the HelloWorldAction.
1.<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
2.<logic:redirect forward="helloWorld"/>
In the action class we return the ActionForward "success" which is mapped to the helloWorld.jsppage. In the helloWorld.jsp page we display the "Hello World" message.
01.<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
02.<html>
03.<head>
04.<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
05.<title>Hello World</title>
06.</head>
07.<body>
08.<bean:write name="helloWorldForm" property="message"/>
09.</body>
10.</html>
After creating all the files the directory structure of the application looks like this.
On executing the application the "Hello World" message gets displayed to the user.

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