These are the notes for the Struts 2.3.1 distribution.

For prior notes in this release series, see Version Notes 2.2.3

If you are a Maven user, you might want to get started using the Maven Archetype.

Another quick-start entry point is the blank application. Rename and deploy the WAR as a starting point for your own development.

Maven Dependency <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId> <artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId> <version>2.3.1</version> </dependency>

You can also use Struts Archetype Catalog like below

Struts Archetype Catalog mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://struts.apache.org/2.3.1/

Staging Repository <repositories> <repository> <id>apache.nexus</id> <name>ASF Nexus Staging</name> <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/</url> </repository> </repositories>

The DTD has been updated to provide whitelisting of functions that can be called via Dynamic Method Invocation, via the <allowed-methods> tag inside <action>. (The method specified in the <action> tag is automatically whitelisted.) For example, the following XML allows methods foo, bar, and baz to be called via DMI:

<action name="..." method="foo"> <result ... /> <allowed-methods>bar,baz</allowed-methods> </action>

the Spring Dependencies were upgraded from version 2.5.6 to version 3.0.5.

a new plugin to support CDI was added, to use CDI support inside your application add struts2-cdi-plugin.jar to your application WEB-INF/lib folder

Internal Changes

New Portal 2 Plugin replaced the old one Portal Plugin

OGNL was upgraded to version 3.0.2 to solve problem with running Struts 2 on JDK 5

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