Compiling struts classes

Hi Guys
I am new to frameworks. I am working on the struts framework and want to compile some classes. The problem is I dont know how to compile them. I only know of the "javac File.java" method but that doesnt work for the strut classes. I was told to use maven or ant but I have little idea on how they work (I have read through the tutorials and they were little help) let alone how to use it. I have just downloaded the maven package. Can someone give me some quick steps on what I need to do in order to compile these strut classes please?

Thanks

You have to set the classpath to the jar file (struts-core-versionNumber.jar) when compiling.

Asuming you have the jar files in D:/struts/

javac -classpath D:/struts/struts-core-xxx.jar yoursourcefile.java

I was told to use maven or ant but I have little idea on how they work (I have read through the tutorials and they were little help) let alone how to use it

Those are tools for making the tasks of development,deployment etc... easier for us. You may try using Ant which has a very good documentation as well.

We have a separate forum for Struts. Moving there.

in fact the classes will be compiled when you developed in IDE.such as eclipse

You need more than just the Struts core lib--the S2 documentation has a list of dependencies.