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Struts 2 built by Maven HELP

 
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Hi all, I am newbie to Struts 2 and Maven tool. I just finished the book "Head First - JSP and Servlet". The book said a little bit about Struts at the last chapter. So I tried to figure out how to work with Struts 2.
I googled online and found out many Struts tutorials ask users to build the project with Maven. I found two tutorials from Apache Struts site and Mkyong, both of them ask for Maven.
However, I get lost after starting with Maven. Here is what I did (learned it from Mkyong):

I built one empty web-app with:

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.pac -DartifactId=StrutsApp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DinteractiveMode=false



The results look good to me:


[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] >>> maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom >>>
[INFO]
[INFO] <<< maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom <<<
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Generating project in Batch mode
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Using following parameters for creating project from Old (1.x) Archetype: maven-archetype-webapp:1.0
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.pac
[INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: com.pac
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.pac
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: StrutsApp
[INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: c:\maven_proj
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] project created from Old (1.x) Archetype in dir: c:\maven_proj\StrutsApp
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.820s
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Jan 17 11:20:03 PST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 13M/244M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------



Then I went to the project folder to modify the pom.xml to:


After the modification, I ran Maven to convert to project to Eclispe style:

mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0



The results look good though. It shows downloading each Struts component from Maven repo:


Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/asm/asm-commons/3.3/asm-commons-3.3.jar
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/asm/asm-commons/3.3/asm-commons-3.3.jar (38 KB at 267.0 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/asm/asm-tree/3.3/asm-tree-3.3.jar
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/asm/asm-tree/3.3/asm-tree-3.3.jar (21 KB at 262.5 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/freemarker/freemarker/2.3.19/freemarker-2.3.19.jar
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/freemarker/freemarker/2.3.19/freemarker-2.3.19.jar (910 KB at 1715.7 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/commons-fileupload/commons-fileupload/1.2.2/commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/commons-fileupload/commons-fileupload/1.2.2/commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar (59 KB at 529.0 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/2.0.1/commons-io-2.0.1.jar
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/commons-io/commons-io/2.0.1/commons-io-2.0.1.jar (156 KB at 865.4 KB/sec)
[INFO] Not writing settings - defaults suffice
[INFO] Wrote Eclipse project for "StrutsApp" to c:\maven_proj\StrutsApp.
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 8.260s
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Jan 17 11:33:42 PST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 10M/244M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------



Finally, I used "import the existing project" option to import it to Eclipse. However, after I imported the project, I checked the "Deployment Assembly" option in project properties, it showed me something like:


Cannot find entry: "c:/Users/xxxx/.m2/repository/org/apache/struts/struts2-core/2.3.8/struts2-core-2.3.8.jar"
....
....



In fact, I did see the Maven downloaded these .jar files. They are in the maven local repo directory instead of this "c:/Users/xxx/.m2/...." .
How can I fix this? Is it that I need to manually add these jar files to project from maven local repo directory? I thought Maven should import them automatically. Is it correct?

Thanks!
 
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I have not used Maven so I can't be of much help. I know Struts has some archetypes and instructions here.
I'll move this topic into our Maven forum to see if anyone there can chime in.
 
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c:/Users/xxx/.m2/.... is the default location of the local Maven repository. You can change that in Eclipse to point to whereever your local repository is.

Eclipse workspace preferences > Maven > User Settings > Local Repository
 
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Thank you so much! It works now~
BTW, when I read the tutorial from Apache Maven, it mentioned about setting M2 sys variable. Is that M2 same as this ".m2"?

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:c:/Users/xxx/.m2/.... is the default location of the local Maven repository. You can change that in Eclipse to point to whereever your local repository is.

Eclipse workspace preferences > Maven > User Settings > Local Repository

 
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Dian D Chen wrote:Thank you so much! It works now~
BTW, when I read the tutorial from Apache Maven, it mentioned about setting M2 sys variable. Is that M2 same as this ".m2"?



M2 (M2_HOME) is the system variable that would point to the .m2 directory on disk. It similar to how the JAVA_HOME points to the Java home directory or CLASSPATH points to classes that should be included when java is invoked from the command prompt. Similarly M2_HOME gets used when Maven commands are run from the classpath
 
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