The official documentation for the framework is provided both
online and as a self-installing WAR in the distribution.
The struts-documentation.war includes our
You are invited to preview the documentation online and then install
the application locally for closer study.
NOTE: If you are previewing the documentation on the website,
most of the links in this section will refer to the Nightly Build.
When learning about Struts, be sure to refer to the documentation for
the version you are actually using.
The documentation is bundled with each distribution as an application that
you can install locally.
For your convenience, links to the documentation for the current stable
release (1.0.2) are also provided on the menu bar.
Whenever possible, please help conserve our bandwidth and install the
documentation locally.
The concise Struts User Guide
introduces the Model-View-Controller architecture, and how it relates to
the major components of Struts.
If you want to find out "How Struts works", this is the place to start.
Along with an architectural overview, the User Guide also includes
detailed installation instructions and release notes for each version of
the framework.
Our Developer Guides are detailed technical references to the
extensions and components provided in the Struts distribution.
Included are package overviews and API referencea for each of the Struts
taglibs, along with guides to the Struts Utilities and the Struts
Validator.
The Developer Guides are designed as a day-to-day reference to help you
get the most out of the standard packages.
For more detail about a specific class or package, the Struts
Javadocs are surprisingly
comprehensive and carefully maintained.
It is strongly recommended that you refer to the
Javadoc for each class as you begin to use
it.
This will help ensure that important features and options are not
overlooked.
What you don't know, can't help you.
The Struts FAQs are designed to fill in any small gaps left by the
Javadocs or the User and Developer Guides.
- The Kickstart FAQ
answers the most common non-technical questions people first ask about
Struts.
-
The Struts Newbie FAQ answers the most
common technical questions asked by first-timer Struts developers.
-
The How to Help FAQ answers the most
common questions about contributing to the Jakarta-Struts project.
The Howto Guides are designed to help you get started with some of
the optional extensions and components available for Struts.
These include topics like using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol
with Struts and how to unit test your Struts applications.
A more extensive Struts knowledgebase is available at the
JGuru FAQ and
Forum.
Of course, the only true documentation is the code itself.
If you have any questions about how Struts actually works, do not hesitate
to use the source.
For the complete, buildable source code to the entire Struts framework,
see the "src" folder in the
your source
distribution.
