Managing Struts Elements

The structure of a Struts application including numerous Struts elements and the interaction between them is defined in the Struts configuration file struts-config.xml. The Struts configuration file is created automatically when you enable Struts support for a module.

With IntelliJ IDEA, you can edit the struts-config.xml in the Struts Assistant tool window, which provides three synchronized views: the Structure Tree, the Properties Table, and the Struts Web Flow Diagram.

To define the structure of a Struts application, create and edit the necessary Struts elements and specify interaction among them using the Struts Assistant tool window, tab Struts. This dedicated tool window provides three synchronized views:

• the Structure Tree to add, edit, and remove Struts elements.
  

  

• the Properties Table to specify the values of elements and their attributes.
  

  

• the Struts Web Flow Diagram to navigate through the Struts application structure.
  

  

IntelliJ IDEA provides the facilities for managing the following Struts elements according to the common procedure:

• Data Sources
• Form Beans
• Global Exceptions
• Global Forwards
• Action Mappings
• controller

  There can be only one controller element in a Web application.

• Message Resources
• Plugins

Managing tiles and validators in a friendly interface requires that you enable support of them first.