I just read the Manning book on Struts 2 and understand the theory behind Struts but am a little bit confused as to how to actually implement my first app in practice. The locations of the config files, etc are a little confusing.
For my development environment I'm using Maven 2 + Ecplise IDE. I'm not compiling in Eclipse at all, I want to package and everything using Maven for compatibility purposes. I have already read this tutorial: http://struts.apache.org/2.0.11.2/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html as well as the sample app in Manning's book. The files are relatively similar but always placed in different locations. For my first app, all I want to do is create a form and have the submitted values placed in a database table. Simple. For my current webapp, I have used a command like this I've had to add a few modules like hibernate to the pom.xml: mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=tutorial \ -DartifactId=tutorial \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.struts \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=struts2-archetype-starter \ -DarchetypeVersion=2.0.3-SNAPSHOT \ -DremoteRepositories=http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository How do I compile the webapp? I have been using 'mvn package' but it never seems to generate any errors. I have used the Ecplise plugin to reverse engineer the database I've built and each class comes with an *.hbm.xml file, do I need to worry about these? How do I know where to put config files like applicationContext.xml, every sample app I look at they seem to be in a different place? If anyone could login to my system that would be great, it would probably take anyone who knew what they were doing a very short amount of time. -thanks
