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Struts2 and Spring Integration

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It is possible to use Spring to create Struts2 actions. Here are some snippets which make it work.

in your web.xml

<listener>
   <listener-class>
      org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
   </listener-class>
</listener>
<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>

In your struts.xml

<constant name="struts.objectFactory" value="spring" />

In your pom.xml

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
   <artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId>
   <version>2.1.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
   <artifactId>struts2-spring-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>2.1.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
   <version>2.5.5</version>
</dependency>