Hi folks, I just registered to the user list and new to struts. I hope i can learn from you and help as much as i can. I would like to ask one question about rest plugin, but i want to detail the steps i've taken in case this might help someone who want to start similar project.
I wanted to use the convention plugin and i downloaded struts2 from http://people.apache.org/builds/struts/2.1.5/ I copied main jar files and also struts2-convention-plugin-2.1.5.jar to my lib folder. Everything, including package name and action mappings worked great as described in http://cwiki.apache.org/WW/convention-plugin.html Up to this point you don't need to use struts.xml file. It works without that. The default result directory for .jsp files is /WEB-INF/content/ To change this to "views", I created struts.xml file. This is my struts.xml after that change. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd";> <struts> <constant name="struts.convention.result.path" value="/WEB-INF/views/" /> </struts> Everything is OK. I also added struts2-config-browser-plugin-2.1.5.jar to my lib folder, and able to see action mappings. Cool plugin. But i want to also use rails like structure in my action (well controller) classes. For this you need rest plugin (struts2-rest-plugin-2.1.5.jar) as described here: http://cwiki.apache.org/WW/rest-plugin.html You need to add the following lines to your struts.xml file: <constant name="struts.convention.action.suffix" value="Controller"/> <constant name="struts.convention.action.mapAllMatches" value="true"/> <constant name="struts.convention.default.parent.package" value="rest-default"/> <constant name="struts.convention.package.locators" value="actions"/> When i tried to restart tomcat6.0 within eclipse, i got this error: Unable to load configuration. - bean - jar:file:/path/and path/and whatever/lib/struts2-rest-plugin-2.1.5.jar!/struts-plugin.xml:36:138. Has anybody faced the same problem. Thank you in advance. Regards, Ercan
