I'm trying to migrate my struts application from 2.3.31 to 2.5.8 but it appears that my struts.xml is not getting loaded. My web.xml is pretty standard:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <web-app id="app-name" version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/jsc/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" > <display-name>app-name</display-name> <icon /> <description /> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <filter> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> <url-pattern>*.action</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> Then my struts.xml which worked fine in 2.3.31 but is not working in 2.5.8 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.3//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.3.dtd"> <struts> <!-- Load in the default Struts configuration so we get all the basic interceptors. This is in the struts-core jar file if you need to look at it for reference. --> <!-- <include file="struts-default.xml" /> --> <!-- Explicitly use the struts Object Factory automatic default. Default options with no plugins are 'struts' and 'xwork'. To use 'spring', you need to include the struts-spring-plugin in pom.xml and configure it properly --> <constant name="struts.objectFactory" value="struts" /> <!-- Max file upload size of 250 MB --> <constant name="struts.multipart.maxSize" value="262144000" /> <include file="my-base.xml" /> <include file="my-json-actions.xml" /> </struts> The struts.xml file is in my resources directory, and I verified it's being copied properly to webapp/WEB-INF/classes. However, when I start up my application in Tomcat, the StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter init method is called, but my actions as defined in my-json-actions.xml are not initialized. It appears that the struts.xml file is not loaded at all. I'm also not seeing any exceptions or error messages output. Do I need to do something different in 2.5 to get my actions loading? My action definitions look something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.3//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.3.dtd"> <struts> <include file="my-json-base.xml" /> <package name="my-json" namespace="/json" extends="my-json-base"> <action name="Account!*" class="my.actions.json.AccountAction" method="{1}"> <interceptor-ref name="myInterceptor" /> </action> Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks -- John