Step By Step Deploying struts in Eclipse

Requirements:

• Tomcat preferable zipped or tar version.
• Eclipse IDE
• Eclipse tomcat plug-in.
• Struts binary.

Configurations step by step:

• Extract tomcat to directory.

Eclipse configurations:

• Extract tomcat plugin to current directory.
• Paste the extracted contents (com.sysdeo….. Folder) to {eclipse-home}/plugin folder.
• Start eclipse (Verify the tomcat start, stop and restart buttons are appearing in toolbar).
• Click on Window -> preferences -> tomcat.

i) Select right version of tomcat.

ii) Browse upto tomcat home directory.

iii) Hit ok button.

• Click File -> New -> project -> java -> tomcat project, click & continue.

• Enter project name as firststruts hit next button, then on next screen press finish button.

• Then control will come back to eclipse, expand the directory in eclipse project explorer, you will see the following directory structure.

• Click on project name and then click Project -> properties -> build path.

• Click on source, select existing source folder and remove them.

  

• Now, click on Add folder and select check src folder and press ok.

• You can see the change in project directory structure.
  

• Now directory structure is complete, you can add all struts helper jar into WEB-INF/lib.

• And all required tld files to WEB-INF dir.

• Bingo, You are done with initial setup.