In this Struts example, you will learn how to create a HTML password field with Struts <html:password> tag. In order to use the Struts HTML Tags you need to include the following taglib directive in the jsp page.
<%@taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
First create a new Dynamic Web Project and configure it as Maven Project. For Reference, Click Here
Add the following dependencies in pom.xml
<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>4.8.2</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId> <artifactId>struts-core</artifactId> <version>1.3.10</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId> <artifactId>struts-taglib</artifactId> <version>1.3.10</version> </dependency> </dependencies>
1. Create JSP
Now we will create a HTML password field using Struts’s HTML tag
Write the following code in login.jsp
<%@taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html"%> <html> <head> <title>Struts <Html:password> Password</title> </head> <body> <html:form action="/login"> User Name : <html:text property="userName"/> Password <html:password property="password" /> <html:submit>Submit</html:submit> </html:form> </body> </html>
Now create another JSP success.jsp that displays the text written in password field. Write the following code in success.jsp
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Success Page</title> </head> <body> Login Success. Welcome <bean:write name="LoginForm" property="userName"></bean:write> <br>Password Value : <bean:write name="LoginForm" property="password"></bean:write> </body> </html>
2. Action Form
Create a Action Form class and name it LoginForm.java that contains the following code.
package com.kruders.form;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
public class LoginForm extends ActionForm{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private String userName;
private String password;
public String getUserName() {
return userName;
}
public void setUserName(String userName) {
this.userName = userName;
}
public String getPassword() {
return password;
}
public void setPassword(String password) {
this.password = password;
}
public static long getSerialversionuid() {
return serialVersionUID;
}
}
3. Action Class (Controller)
Let us create an Action class LoginAction.java that will handles and forward the request.
package com.kruders.action;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import com.kruders.form.LoginForm;
public class LoginAction extends Action{
public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws Exception {
return mapping.findForward("success");
}
}
4. Struts Config
Write the following code in struts-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN" "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd"> <struts-config> <form-beans> <form-bean name="LoginForm" type="com.kruders.form.LoginForm"/> </form-beans> <global-forwards> <forward name="login" path="/login.do"/> </global-forwards> <action-mappings> <action input="/login.jsp" name="LoginForm" path="/login" validate="true" scope="request" type="com.kruders.action.LoginAction"> <forward name="success" path="/success.jsp" /> </action> </action-mappings> </struts-config>
5. Deployment Descriptor
Now configure the deployment descriptor. Here, we have asked the container to give our ActionServlet any request that matches the pattern *.do
Add the following configuration information in the web.xml file
<welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>login.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <servlet> <servlet-class> org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet </servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>config</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
6. Run Project
Now when you run the project, following screen will be displayed as shown in Figure 17.1
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Figure 17.1
Now when you enter the value in password field and click submit button, following screen will be displayed as shown in Figure 17.2
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Figure 17.2
The folder structure of the example is shown below in Figure 17.3
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Figure 17.3