Struts 2.1.8 Showcase application

In this section we will explore Struts 2.1.8 show case application. We will use Tomcat to install and test the application.

I am assuming that you have already installed apache-tomcat-6.0.26 on your computer. Now copy the struts2-showcase-2.1.8.1.war file into webapps directory of tomcat and then start the tomcat.

 Now open the browser and type http://localhost:8080/struts2-showcase-2.1.8.1/. Your browser should display the showcase application's home page.

The showcase application provides following examples:

1. Ajax
2. Ajax Chat
3. Action Chaining
4. Config Browser
5. Conversion
6. CRUD
7. Execute & Wait
8. File Download
9. File Upload
10. FreemarkerHangman
11. JavaServer
12.  Faces
13. Tags
14. Tiles
15. Token
16. Validation
17. Interactive Demo
18. Person Manager
19. Struts 1 Integration
    

You can learn a lot from the example show case. Here is the screen shot of the Chat application:

In this section we installed and tested Struts 2.1.8 show case example.