Migrating Struts Web Pages

HATS users migrating/updating Struts Web Pages to HATS version 9.6.1.2 (and later), should follow the below steps to use the Struts 2.5.26 release JARs:

1. Navigate to ‘plugins’ folder under IMShared location in your computer and then navigate to the ‘lib’ folder under the ‘com.ibm.hsrendering’ plugin folder. For example, ‘C:\Program Files\ibm\IBMIMShared\plugins\com.ibm.hsrendering_9.6.XXX.XXXXXXXXXXXX\lib.
2. Copy the commons-beanutils-1.9.4.jar, commons-collections-3.2.2.jar, commons-fileupload-1.4.jar, commons-io-2.6.jar, commons-lang3-3.8.1.jar, freemarker-2.3.30.jar, javassist-3.20.0-GA.jar, ognl-3.1.28.jar, struts2-core-2.5.26.jar and log4j-api-2.12.1.jar from the path navigated in Step 1).
3. Within Migrated HATS Web Project, paste the JARs copied in Step 2) at the project location ‘WebContent/ WEB-INF/ lib’.
4. StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter: The org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter was moved to org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter. In the web.xml file, replace the below code:

   
   	<filter>	
   		<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
   		<filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter</filter-class>
   	</filter>	
   

   with the following code:

   
   	<filter>
   	    <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
   	    <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter</filter-class>
   	</filter>
   

5. DTD: Struts DTD was updated to 2.5 version. In the struts.xml file, replace the 2.3 DTD version in the code below:

   
   		<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
           "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.3//EN"
           "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.3.dtd">
   

   with the 2.5 DTD version as shown below :

   
   		<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
           "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.5//EN"
           "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.5.dtd">