press Finish.

Once the project is created, you can see its structure in Project Explorer.

Now copy all the required JAR files in WebContent -> WEB-INF -> lib folder. Create this folder if it does notexists.

Mapping Struts2 in WEB.xml

As discussed in the previous article (Introduction to Struts2), the entry point of Struts2 application will be theFilter define in deployment descriptor (web.xml). Hence we will define an entry

oforg.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher class in web.xml.

Open web.xml file which is under WEB-INF folder and copy paste following code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><web-app id="WebApp_9" version="2.4" xmlns="/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="/xml/ns/j2ee /xml/ns/j2ee/web- <display-name>Struts2 Application</display-name>