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174 CHAPTER 4: Building a Web Application Using Struts 2

The directory structure illustrated in Figure 4-8 follows the normal Maven directory structure.

Table 4-4 describes the directory structure of the HelloWorld application.

Table 4-4. Directory Structure of a Maven-Based Application

Directory Description

Src All source

: - main Main source directory

: : - java Java source

: : - helloworld Package defined by the groupID parameter

: : - action The package from the archetype

: :- resources Resources(configuration, properties, and so on)

: - webapp Web application files

: : - WEB-INF WEB-INF folder

Table 4-5. Directory Structure of a Non-Maven-Based Application

Directory Description

Src All source

: - helloworld Helloworld package

: - action Action package

• struts.xml Resources(configuration, properties, and so on)
  Web Web application files
  : - WEB-INF WEB-INF folder

The directory structure of a non-Maven HelloWorld application might look like Table 4-5.

You need to add the struts 2-core dependency to the generated pom.xml file of the HelloWorld
application. Listing 4-13 shows the code fragment to add to pom.xml.

Listing 4-13. struts 2-core Dependency