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Hi All

I've checked many tutorial for this but i'm not able to get the exact idea how to integrate Spring and Struts2. Please let me know if anybody has come across any good tutorial which will explain step-by-step right from downloading libraries up to integration.

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Check this https://coderanch.com/t/472077/Struts/Struts-Tomcat
 
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The link however does not mention any step by step guide to integrating Spring and Struts, but will give you an idea on the integration aspect.
 
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Hi

Thanks Jothi. But it's really difficult to understand from that piece of information. Could you please suggest any tutorial from where you have developed such application.

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It is one application that I'm developing for a community. It is built using Maven / Spring / Struts / JPA. Can you let me know what is your project's constituents so that I can help you furthur.? But as a basic information, you need to have a struts-spring plugin jar and add it to your lib folder of your web app.
 
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Thanks Jothi for such a prompt reply.

Our client wants us to develop application using Struts2 and Spring(AOP, DAO). The integration that works fine for Struts1.3.X is not working for Struts2. We just add a tag in struts-config.xml in case of Struts1.3.X but same is not working for Struts2.

It will be very much helpful if you tell me which configuration files we need and what tags should be used for the same to integrate Struts2 and Spring

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Search for the following jar file in the internet and add that to your lib folder of the web application

struts2-spring-plugin

Next in your web.xml, add the following entry:



For the Spring integration of your web application, add the following again to the web.xml. Hope you have your applicationContext.xml in place:



Also register the Spring listeners in your web.xml:

 
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Consult the Spring reference documentation for a broader understanding.
 
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Hi Jothi

It's really a great help. Now i'm facing another problem. I'm getting following exception.



In struts.xml i've mapped action like


And in applicationContext.xml


In Action class we don't have any arguments for execute() method like that i've


So do i need to change "org.springframework.web.struts.DelegatingActionProxy" to something else so that it will call execute method from our Action class.

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What is that DelegationActionProxy?? Write your action class and map that in your struts.xml file.
 
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Better spend some time reading the action mapping definitions of Struts 2.
 
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It looks like you're trying to use Spring's Struts 1 support. Don't do that.
 
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Hi Jothi

If we map Action class in struts.xml directly then how can we say that we are integrating it with Spring. In this case what's the use of applicationContext.xml

In Struts1 we do like this only. "org.springframework.web.struts.DelegatingActionProxy" create class object using reflection. So struts.xml is used to define the path and applicationContext.xml is used to map the action class to specified path just like mentioned below.

struts-config.xml


applicationContext.xml


Could you elaborate more on this please? I've got confused now.

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Navin
 
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Navin Pillu wrote:Hi Jothi

If we map Action class in struts.xml directly then how can we say that we are integrating it with Spring. In this case what's the use of applicationContext.xml

In Struts1 we do like this only. "org.springframework.web.struts.DelegatingActionProxy" create class object using reflection. So struts.xml is used to define the path and applicationContext.xml is used to map the action class to specified path just like mentioned below.

struts-config.xml


applicationContext.xml


Could you elaborate more on this please? I've got confused now.

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Navin



Spring is a DI container. By integrating Spring in your Struts application, it means that you inject your action classes using Spring's DI mechanism.
 
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Get rid of that DelegationContext!
 
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If we map action path to Action class in struts.xml, then we are not using DI of spring and applicationContext.xml is of no use. Can you paste dummy code from your application for struts.xml and applicationContext.xml to understand it properly.

I want to use AOP on execute() method of struts2 which will not be possible if we map action path to Action class in struts.xml

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Hi Jothi,

Thanks a lot for your help. Now i understood the thing properly.

In our struts.xml we have to specify


Setting "struts.objectFactory" to "spring" will force Struts to instantiate the actions using Spring, injecting all the defined dependencies on applicationContext.xml.

And applicationContext.xml will look like


Thanks a lot again
Navin
 
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Move that constant definition (the object factory definition) to a struts.properties file.
 
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No, constant configuration should be kept in the XML file: it's the preferred mechanism. struts.properties is primarily for WebWork backwards compatibility. It could also be kept in the web.xml file if you don't need any Struts 2 configuration files.

http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/constant-configuration.html
 
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So you mean to say that just for the backward compatibility we have the properties file. Good for letting me know. I will move all of them with immediate effect to my config file... it's after all what the Newton's law says....
 
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