How To Create A Struts 2 Web Application

This tutorial walks through installing the framework and creating a simple application.

While the Struts 2 framework is simple to use, creating non-trivial applications assumes a working knowledge of many J2EE technologies, including:

For more about supporting technologies, see the Key Technologies Primer.

Java Requirements

Struts 2 requires Servlet API 2.4 or higher, JSP 2.0 or higher, and Java 7 or higher.

To get started using Struts 2 we will create a web application using Maven to manage the artifact dependencies.

You can checkout all the example applications from the Struts 2 GitHub repository at https://github.com/apache/struts-examples.