Eclipse configures Tomcat, struts2 for Java Learning

1. Download the eclipse IDE for Java EE under Www.eclipse.org/downloads

2. Download tomcat7.0 to tomcat.apache.org

3. To http://www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html download configure Tomcat to eclipse plugin

4. Download Struts2 library files to struts.apache.org

5. Create a Dynamic Web site project on Eclipse

6. Add Struts2 9 jar packages to the project properties: Commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar, Commons-io-2.0.1.jar, Commons-lang-2.5.jar, Commons-logging-1.1.1.jar, Freemarker-2.3.16.jar, Javassist-3.11.0.ga.jar, Ognl-3.0.1.jar, Struts2-core-2.2.3.jar, Xwork-core-2.2.3.jar and copies the above 9 jar packages to lib under the Tomcat directory

7. Configure Web.xml files under the Web-inf directory

? xml version= "1.0" encoding= "UTF-8"?> <web-app id= "Webapp_9" version= "2.4" xmlns= "Http://java.sun.com/xml"
/ns/j2ee "
	xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance "
	xsi:schemalocation=" http:// JAVA.SUN.COM/XML/NS/J2EE http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd ">
	<filter>
		< Filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
		<filter-class> Org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.strutsprepareandexecutefilter</filter-class>
	</filter>

	<filter-mapping>
		<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</ url-pattern>
	</filter-mapping>
</web-app>

8. Configure the Struts.xml file below the SRC directory