Step 2: Edit struts-config.xml
This file contains a lot of comments and elements which we
don't need. I've edited it to look like this:
Listing 1. struts-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">
<struts-config>
<!-- ======================================== Form Bean Definitions -->
<form-beans>
</form-beans>
<!-- =================================== Global Forward Definitions -->
<global-forwards>
<!-- Default forward to "Welcome" action -->
<!-- Demonstrates using index.jsp to forward -->
<forward name="welcome" path="/Welcome.do"/>
</global-forwards>
<!-- =================================== Action Mapping Definitions -->
<action-mappings>
<!-- Default "Welcome" action -->
<!-- Forwards to Welcome.jsp -->
<action path="/Welcome"
type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"
parameter="/pages/Welcome.jsp"/>
</action-mappings>
<!-- ================================ Message Resources Definitions -->
<message-resources parameter="resources.application"/>
<!-- ======================================= Plug Ins Configuration -->
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn">
<set-property property="pathnames"
value="/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml"/>
</plug-in>
</struts-config>
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The global-forwards and action-mappings section
serves the welcome page, which is the only page in the
struts-blank application.
Note the message-resources section, which points to the
message resource file. It's found in classes/resources
and is called application.properties.
Finally we find the first trace of the new Validator. The
Validator is a "plug-in", which must be defined as
above. The predefined validators are located in /WEB-
INF/validator-rules.xml and the specific rules that apply to
the application's HTML forms are located in /WEB-
INF/validation.xml. Since struts-blank
doesn't use the Validator you'll only find some sample
definitions in validation.xml.
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