The Struts 2 Convention Plugin provides Struts 2 with convention-based actions and views, allowing zero-config Struts 2 applications, while providing customization at multiple levels.
The Struts 2 Convention Plugin provides Struts 2 with convention-based actions and views, allowing zero-config Struts 2 applications, while providing customization at multiple levels.
Features include:
- Action location by package naming conventions
- Result (JSP, FreeMarker, etc) location by naming conventions
- Class name to URL naming convention
- Package name to namespace convention
- SEO compliant URLs (i.e. my-action rather than MyAction)
- Action name overrides using annotations
- Interceptor overrides using annotations
- Namespace overrides using annotations
- XWork package overrides using annotations
- Default action and result handling (i.e. /products will try com.example.actions.Products as well as com.example.actions.products.Index)
This plugin can provide additional configuration based on convention. It also uses annotations to replace or override the configuration settings made by this plugin. All annotations that could be used in the code you can find under the package org.apache.struts2.convention.annotation.
