Still need to support Apache Struts 1?

Then our site is the right place to visit.
There are still a lot of applications in the wild, which are based on Struts 1.
A lot of effort, intelectual property and love has been invested in these applications.
They are still working and you don't want to recreate them form scratch.
But you are facing new challenges.

• Struts support of new browsers
• Struts support of mobile devices
• Struts support of html5
• Struts support of new JEE Runtimes and/or Versions
• Struts support of new Security-Features
• Struts support of Jakarta EE
• Polyfill for Apaches old Struts 1.X
• Struts support of none Oracle Java Version to save money. You may want the option to switch to Open JDK or another third party JVM.
• Security-Updates for your applicaton server
• Security-Updates for your Operating System
• Struts support of Maven and/or Maven dependencies
• Struts support for Legal and/or regulatory reasons

What you want or might want

• Make your application run. Event if people tell you that you got not other option than to switch to another framework or to rebuild you whole application it on a modern basis. And that you will faile if you don't do ot.
• Keep your application running.
• Investment security
• Smoothly refactor you Application to a modern basis. Therfore a step by step migraition of your application might be good - you wan't ot avoid to reimplement it from scratch.
• Fix security known and or unknow security issues.

How to do it

In order to succeed your application should rely on a stable foundation.
But what does this mean?
All layer of you platform must be be under support.

1. The Operating-System
2. Java Version - Just use a Java-Version with Longtime-Support. Java Versions with LTS are 1.8 and Java 11. These are the Version for which we provide support.
3. The Application-Server
4. Struts 1
5. Your Web-Applicaiton

recommended environments

Java 8 Stack

1. Tomcat-8.5.64 + Struts 1.4.1
2. JBoss EAP + Struts 1.4.1

Java 11 Stack

Run the demo

1. Install a JDK if not available https://adoptopenjdk.net or https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto
2. Download our bundle
3. set the JAVA_HOME-Environment-Variable
4. bin\startup.bat or bind/startup.sh
5. Run the demo http://localhost:8080/struts-cookbook
6. Run the demo http://localhost:8080/html5-example

Long Time Support (LTS) for Struts

You need a Software-Stack with LTS.
Java 1.8 or Java 11

Java	Nummer	LTS* (Long Term Support)
Java SE 14	58
Java SE 13	57
Java SE 12	56
Java SE 11	55	Yes
Java SE 10	54
Java SE 9	53
Java SE 8	52	Yes
Java SE 7	51
Java SE 6.0	50 (0x32 hex),
Java SE 5.0	49 (0x31 hex),
JDK 1.4	48 (0x30 hex),
JDK 1.3td>	47 (0x2F hex)
JDK 1.2	46 (0x2E hex)
JDK 1.1	45 (0x2D hex)

* Der Begriff Long Term Support oder kurz LTS bezeichnet – vornehmlich im Open-Source-Kontext – langfristig unterstützte Software oder Betriebssysteme. Damit steht der Begriff sinnbildlich für Stabilität und Verlässlichkeit über einen langen, in der Regel fest definierten Mindestzeitraum hinweg.

We explain you how to do stuff with Struts 1

• Add Ajax and/or JSON support to you Struts application.
• Dynamicly generate Excel-Documents out of you Struts application.

Struts 1.4.1

https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-web/styling/icons-in-a-list

• switched from SUBVERSION to git
• switched from ant to Maven
• preconfigured test-enviroment with tomcat
• Struts 1.4.1 now makes use of JUnit
• Selenium test (TODO: make a Video)

Our mission

On 2013-04-05 the Apache Struts Project Team informed the comunity, that the Struts 1.x web framework has reached its end of life and is no longer officially supported.
STRUTS-support.com is trying to fill the gap. If you need Enterprise-Level-Support than...

References

https://struts.apache.org/struts1eol-announcement.html
https://struts.apache.org/struts1eol-press.html

Releases

	1.3.10 Last Official releases from the Apache Software fundation	1.4.1 Current release form STRUTS-support.com
Full Distribution:	struts-1.3.10-all.zip [MD5] 678FC24CAA87CCFD0C1731BFEDC6F4C7
Library:	struts-1.3.10-lib.zip [MD5] A4C1A91F659C0F6A24C6E9A3E7BDA6A7	struts-1.4.1-lib.zip [MD5] 809b85cacd99e947412092eba0c9f48d
Source:	struts-1.3.10-src.zip [MD5] 7FB96ADBC2B18DDD80462294CAFB944D	can be licensed - get a quote
Examples:	struts-1.3.10-apps.zip [MD5] B7801B94D84D0EA41AFCDCAA3C7D10B7 struts-cookbook.war struts-blank.war struts-examples.war struts-mailreader.war struts-scripting-mailreader.war	struts-1.4.1-apps.zip [MD5] 05633e01439ad0f5e46d12060ebcbe1a NEW:html5-example.war struts-cookbook.war struts-blank.war struts-examples.war struts-mailreader.war struts-scripting-mailreader.war
Documentation:	struts-1.3.10-docs.zip [MD5] 67856607707473C61D426B8A3C3AB555	struts-1.4.1-docs.zip [MD5] 8a259d01f0ba254add4b25a8a0156d6c
Specification	J2EE v1.3 from the year 2002 Servlet 2.3 comes with JSP 1.2 without EL. EL is to be provided by JSTL 1.0 and works in JSTL tags only	Based on Servlet 3.1

Older Releases

Older versions of Struts are available from the Archive Site (https://archive.apache.org/dist/struts )

What we do

• We try to build a living comunity around the Struts 1.X Framework.
• We offer professional support for Struts 1.X based application

What we did so fare

• Port of
• Applications can now be secured httponly ...
• We offer professional support for Struts 1.X base application

Why we had to it

• Unterstützung moderner Java-Versionen
• Unterstütung moderner Server - JBoss, Weblogic und Tomcat
• Unsterstütung von modernen Browsern und html5
• Help companies to pass PEN-Tests..
• Enabled legacy-Applications to support Mobil devices

How we did it

• Struts was developed by the apache software foundation. The Source are released under apache-licence.

Securing the App.

What we can do for you

• Maintain your application for you
• Implement new requirements for you application
• Fix bugs in your application
• Migrate you application to the cloud
• Host you application in the cloud

Who we are

struts-support is a promotional page of nikem GmbH form Stuttgart Germany.

Dokumentation

The Versions

https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/struts/struts1/tags
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/struts1
https://github.com/apache/struts1

Support for html5

Struts support of mobile devices Struts support of html5

Choose a time for your appointment:

Securing your Application

If you use our modern Version

Returning Binary Data with struts 1

In a default request-reply cycle in Struts, the view is implemented by a JSP-Page.
Usualy the content-Type is ...
If you want to create binary data e.g. a Excel-File or a PDF-File you got to do everything in the Action.
To avoid using any jsp simply return null after you are done.

Struts Tutorials

https://mkyong.com/tutorials/struts-tutorials/
https://www.roseindia.net/struts/struts1/

Support for Ajax

Struts 1 based applications use the HTTP-POST methode in the repuest-response-loop.
jQuery gibt ja implizit das Cookie mit.... jQuery.post( "/laif/commons/client/excelJnlp.jsp", function( data ) { alert( "Data Loaded: " + data ); });

Dynamicly create real Excel-Files

By real Excel-files we mean, that we do not create CSV-Files but xls ors xlsx-files.

Execute shell-Script in a JSP

Authentifizierung der JEE-Session über die URL

manchmal komm man die in verlegenheit einen html-link zu verwenden.
Dies kann unter umständen scheitern, wenn einen authentifizieren benötigt wird.
jee verwendet JSESSIONID als cookie um dem user zu tracken.
Manchmal kann man das Cookie aber nicht verwenden.
Wenn man jedoch den Browser verläßt und die Verantwortung an ein externes Programm delegiert (z.B. javaws) hat man ein Problem.
jee hat noch einen machanismus die jsessionid zu transportieren.
Es wirde einfach ;jsessionid=meineid an die url angehängt.
Das ist zwar irgendwie frech, da dies keinem der html-Standarts entspricht...


jnlp://localhost:8080/laif/dialog/9/menu/P/dokument/dmsJnlp.jsp;jsessionid=uhiyYbmvH0_XMYyjiPxbehrv7xBiybVJsdYb0Qks.dzs10n572


jQuery("iframe")[0].src = url;

P.S. damit ich das später wiederfinde sei hiermit erwähnt, dass die Anpassung in der dms.jsp erfolgt ist.

Scriptlet variablen der JSTL zur Verfügung stellen

Bisher wurden die Webseiten im Laif aus einer Mischung von Struts-Tags und Scriptlet entwickelt.
Seit 3/2020 kann man durch meine Umstellung nun auch JSTL verwenden.
Wenn man Daten aus einem Scriptlet verwenden will, so muss man diese zur Verfügung stellen.
Daraus läßt sich folgender Schluss zienen - Das Scriplet wird zuerst ausgeführt, dann erst kommt das JSTL.

JSP - Methoden in einer JSP erstellen

Switch you maven-Projekt from JEE5 to JEE7

pom.xml JEE5 to JEE 7

JEE-Umstellung

https://mkyong.com/web-development/the-web-xml-deployment-descriptor-examples/

legacy

JEE7

Der Web-Container

Der Deployment-Descriptor weist die Anwendung als web-app_2_3.dtd aus.
Der Standart ist so alt, dass er leider als prähistorisch zu sehen ist. Auch die eingecheckten Tools (xdocklet)
Sind so konfiguriert, dass sie JEE 1.5 verwenden (siehe javaee-5.jar) . Das sind dann alles Dinge eingecheckt die
benötigt werden (z.B. javax.servlet.Servlet).
Wir habe es inzwischen auf Servlet 3.1 umgestellt.

• J2EE v1.3 Servlets 2.3 aus dem Jahr 2002 - Servlet 2.3 comes with JSP 1.2 without EL. EL is to be provided by JSTL 1.0 and works in JSTL tags only.
• J2EE 1.4 Ja (2.4) - Servlet 2.4 comes with JSP/EL 2.0. - JBoss EAP 4.3
• JEE5 Ja (2.5) 11. Mai 2006 - Servlet 2.5 comes with JSP/EL 2.1.- JBoss EAP 5
• JEE6 Ja (Servlet 3.0 - JSP2.2) 10. Dezember 2009 - Servlet 3.0 comes with JSP/EL 2.2 - JBoss EAP 6.
• JEE7 Ja (Servlet 3.1 - JSP2.3) 12. Mai 2013 - Servlet 3.1 comes with JSP 2.3 and EL 3.0. - JBoss EAP 7
• JEE8 Ja (Servlet 4.0 - JSP2.3) 18. September 2017 - JBoss EAP 7.2

JEE	Servlets/JSP	EL	Tomcat	Jboss	Oracle Weblogic	EJB
J2EE v1.3	Servlets - 2.3 aus dem Jahr 2002	Servlet 2.3 comes with JSP 1.2 without EL. EL is to be provided by JSTL 1.0 and works in JSTL tags only	4.1.X	unbekannt		EJB 2.0
J2EE 1.4	Servlets - 2.4)	Servlet 2.4 comes with JSP/EL 2.0.	5.5.X	JBoss EAP 4.3		EJB 2.1
JEE5	Servlets 2.5 - 11. Mai 2006	Servlet 2.5 comes with JSP/EL 2.1.	6.0.X	JBoss EAP 5		EJB 3.0
JEE6	(Servlet 3.0 - JSP2.2) 10. Dezember 2009	Servlet 3.0 comes with JSP/EL 2.2	7.0.X	JBoss EAP 6		EJB 3.1
JEE7	(Servlet 3.1 - JSP2.3) 12. Mai 2013	Servlet 3.1 comes with JSP 2.3 and EL 3.0.	8.5.X	JBoss EAP 7	WLS 12cR2	EJB 3.2
JEE8 Jakarta EE8	(Servlet 4.0 - JSP2.3) 18. September 2017	Servlet 4.0 comes with JSP 2.3 and EL 3.0.	9.0.X Java 8 and later	JBoss EAP 7.2	unbekannt	EJB
Jakarta EE9	Servlet 5.0 - JSP 3.0 - EL 4.0		10.0.X Java 8 and later

JBoss EAP Version	WildFly Version
JBoss EAP 6.0	JBoss AS 7.1
JBoss EAP 6.1	JBoss AS 7.2
JBoss EAP 6.2	JBoss AS 7.3
JBoss EAP 6.3	JBoss AS 7.4
JBoss EAP 6.4	JBoss AS 7.5
JBoss EAP 7.0	WildFly 10
JBoss EAP 7.1	WildFly 11
JBoss EAP 7.2	WildFly 14
JBoss EAP 7.3	WildFly 18

Servlet Spec	JSP Spec	EL Spec	WebSocket Spec	Authentication (JASIC) Spec	Apache Tomcat Version	Latest Released Version	Supported Java Versions
5.0	3.0	4.0	2.0	2.0	10.0.x	10.0.0 (beta)	8 and later
4.0	2.3	3.0	1.1	1.1	9.0.x	9.0.41	8 and later
3.1	2.3	3.0	1.1	1.1	8.5.x	8.5.61	7 and later
3.1	2.3	3.0	1.1	N/A	8.0.x (superseded)	8.0.53 (superseded)	7 and later
3.0	2.2	2.2	1.1	N/A	7.0.x	7.0.107	6 and later (7 and later for WebSocket)
2.5	2.1	2.1	N/A	N/A	6.0.x (archived)	6.0.53 (archived)	5 and later
2.4	2.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	5.5.x (archived)	5.5.36 (archived)	1.4 and later
2.3	1.2	N/A	N/A	N/A	4.1.x (archived)	4.1.40 (archived)	1.3 and later
2.2	1.1	N/A	N/A	N/A	3.3.x (archived)	3.3.2 (archived)	1.1 and later

Anpassung jnlp

In Laif werden an vielen Stellen jnlp-Files erzeugt.
Doch das ist nicht genug, der Dateiname bleibt dann mit der Endung .jsp.
Das hindert den Chrome allerdings die Datei mit JNLP auszuführen.
mit response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=wsHdScanJnlp.jnlp"); setzen wird den Namen auf eine jnlp-Endung. Dadurch ist dass dann für den Chrome OK.

Backlog

• Demo-Bundle with open jdk => show the demos..
• Using Selenium-Test to Test the demo-Applications

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