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Migrating
- See the Migration Guide
General
- Where do we get the latest version the framework?
- What are some of the framework's best features?
- Can you suggest an elevator pitch?
HOWTO
- How can we display dynamic or static images that can be provided as an array of bytes?
- How can we test applications?
- How can we test Actions?
- How do we upload files?
- How can we force the Action Mappings (struts.xml) to reload?
Configuration
Accessing Resources
- How do we get access to the session?
- How can we access the HttpServletRequest?
- How can we access the HttpServletResponse?
- How can we access request parameters passed into an Action?
- How do we access static parameters from an Action?
- Can we access an Action's Result?
- How do I obtain security details (JAAS)?
Per-Page Settings
- Can I change theme on a per-page basis?
- Can I change templateDir on a per-page basis?
- Can I change templateSuffix on a per-page basis?
Interceptors
- Why isn't our Prepare interceptor being executed?
- How do we configure an Interceptor to be used with every Action?
Validation
- Why is my action returning "input" when the form is filled out correctly?
- How do I use messages from within the validator
- How can I fix the "Attribute 'short-circuit'" error message
- How do we repopulate controls when validation fails
- How do I unit test my action's validation logic
- Why does WW ignore my message when its enclosed in CDATA
Localization
- How do we change locales
- How do I set a global resource bundle
- How do I decouple XWork LocalizedTextUtil global resource bundle loading from serlvets
- How do I add I18N to a UI tag, like the textfield tag
- Can I add I18N outside the Action's context
- How to support UTF-8 URIEncoding with Tomcat
- How do I enable encoding in my forms
- How to escape special chars in resource bundles
Type Conversion
- How do I change the invalid input error message for a particular field
- Why is the application logging a warning that the Compound Root cannot find a particular Object with a particular property
Value Stack
Tags
- Why do the form tags put table tags around controls?
- How can I put a String literal in a Javascript call, for instance in an onChange attribute?
- Why won't the 'if' tag evaluate a one char string?
- Why does FreeMarker complain that there's an error in my user-directive when I used JSP Tag?
- Can an action tag run another method apart from the default execute method?
- Why didn't my action tag get executed when I have validation errors?
- Why are request parameters appended to our hyperlinks?
- Why doesn't the if tag evaluate test="#parameters.someParam ... " properly
- How do I render a single radio button?
POJOs
Spring
- How can we create our Action objects from the Spring configuration?
- Why would we want to create Action objects from the Spring configuration?
Velocity
- I'm trying to run the example in the tutorial on Tomcat, and it can't instantiate the VelocityEngine
Ajax/Dojo
Issues in Specific Environments
Extensions
- Does the framework integrate with Hibernate
- Can we use JSTL with the framework
- Can we use JUnit with the framework
- Can we use TestNG with the framework
- How can we schedule Quartz jobs
- Can we use Acegi Security with the framework
Portlet Support(JSR168)
Migrating
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