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Acquiring Struts

The production release of Struts 1.0.2 is available in a convenient binary distribution and also with complete source code. In addition, a library distribution is available, which contains the latest Struts binaries without the documentation or sample applications, providing a smaller, faster download.

Check the Release Notes for a summary of the changes since the Struts 1.0.1 release.

In addition to a Struts distribution, you will need to ensure that you have downloaded and installed all of the prerequisite software applications. Then, follow the appropriate instructions to install and use a Struts binary distribution in your web application or for building Struts from the source distribution.

A release candidate of Struts 1.1 is also available, in the same three distributions. As a release candidate, this release is expected to be as stable as a production release, but there may be a few remaining issues which have not been previously encountered.

Check the Release Notes for a summary of the changes since the Struts 1.0.2 release.

As with the production release, you will need to ensure that you have downloaded and installed all of the prerequisite software applications. Then, follow the appropriate instructions to install and use a Struts binary distribution in your web application or for building Struts from the source distribution.

For your convenience, the requisite JARs are provided as a single download under the lib sub-directory with each release and beta distribution. (The "Library Distribution" above.) Please note that the minimum requirements may change between releases and betas, and some JARs may need to be updated to use the latest Nightly Build.

So when is the next release coming out?

Nightly Builds

For developers who are helping to develop Struts, or who just want "the latest bits", the latest development version is made available each morning. Use at your own risk!

The nightly build relies on several JARs from the Jakarta Commons. Nightly builds of all the Commons and Commons-Sandbox packages are available from the Commons nightly build directory. Binary JARs are also available from the Apache Gump latest JARs directory. (If you have trouble with a JAR after downloading it from Gump, your browser may be interpreting it as a text file. Try another browser or download the full distribution.)

If you are building Struts from source, be sure to refer to the Installation page in the User Guide for prerequesites.

If you are interested in the Tag Library Descriptor (TLD) files, they are maintained in the /conf/share folder of he main repository.

Also be sure to check the Release Notes for the nightly builds so you know what you are getting!

Access to the CVS source repository for Struts is available through both web browser and CVS client interfaces.

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