1. Create one MyFirstStruts Web Dynamic Project (Say C:\workspaceAll\Struts\FirstStruts)
2. Create JSP pages
a) CustomerForm.jsp (C:\workspaceAll\Struts\MyFirstStruts\WebContent)
b) Success.jsp (C:\workspaceAll\Struts\MyFirstStruts\WebContent\Success.jsp)
3. Configuration Files
a) web.xml (C:\workspaceAll\Struts\MyFirstStruts\WebContent\WEB-INF\web.xml)
b) struts-config.xml (C:\workspaceAll\Struts\MyFirstStruts\WebContent\WEB-INF\struts-config.xml)
4. Java Files
a) CustomerForm.java (C:\workspaceAll\Struts\MyFirstStruts\src\CustomerForm.java)
b) CustomerAction.java (C:\workspaceAll\Struts\MyFirstStruts\src\CustomerAction.java)
5. Put these jar files (C:\workspaceAll\Struts\MyFirstStruts\WebContent\WEB-INF\lib)
a) commons-beanutils.jar
b) commons-collections.jar
c) commons-digester.jar
d) commons-logging.jar
e) struts.jar
6. Put struts-html.tld into C:\workspaceAll\Struts\MyFirstStruts\WebContent\WEB-INF\struts-html.tld
CustomerForm.jsp
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
<html:html xhtml="true">
<body>
<html:form action="/submitCustomerForm">
Put Customer First Name <html:text property="firstName" size="16" maxlength="16"/> <BR/>
Put Customer Last Name <html:text property="lastName" size="16" maxlength="16"/> <BR/> <P/>
<html:submit>Save</html:submit>
</html:form>
</body>
</html:html>
Success.jsp<html>
<h1> THIS IS SUCCESS PAGE </h1>
</html>
CustomerForm.java
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
public class CustomerForm extends ActionForm {
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
public CustomerForm() { firstName = ""; lastName = ""; }
public String getFirstName() { return firstName; }
public void setFirstName(String s) { this.firstName = s; }
public String getLastName() { return lastName; }
public void setLastName(String s) { this.lastName = s; }
}
CustomerAction.java
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
public class CustomerAction extends Action {
public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { ActionForward nextPage = null;
CustomerForm custForm = (CustomerForm) form;
String firstName = custForm.getFirstName();
String lastName = custForm.getLastName();
System.out.println("Customer First name is " + firstName);
System.out.println("Customer Last name is " + lastName);
nextPage = mapping.findForward("success");
return nextPage; }
}
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
<display-name>Hello World Struts Application</display-name>
<servlet> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>config</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet>
<servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <taglib> <taglib-uri>/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld</taglib-uri> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld</taglib-location> </taglib> </web-app>
struts-config.xml
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">;<struts-config> <form-beans> <form-bean name="myForm" type="CustomerForm" /> </form-beans>
<action-mappings> <action path="/submitCustomerForm" type="CustomerAction" name="myForm" scope="request"> <forward name="success" path="/Success.jsp" /> </action> </action-mappings>
</struts-config>
Start the server:
http://localhost:8080/MyFirstStruts/CustomerForm.jspPut First Name: Binod
Put Second Name: Suman
Click on Save button and check the server console, you should be get
Customer First name is Binod
Customer Last name is Suman
and new success page will come with message:
THIS IS SUCCESS PAGE That's it.
