Struts2 Hibernate3 example, please!

[Kevin P Smith]

Please!!!
Does anyone have a simple Struts2 Hibernate3 example, I have been trying to THREE DAYS to get a simple 1 page app to work, but everytime I restart it I get yet another error about missing classes from JAR files. There are too many to mention but at last count I had about 30 JARs in my LIB folder which seems massivly excessive!

Does anyone actually develop with this technology because at the moment I have serious doubts about it's ability compared to EJB3.1 & Servlets3 which is what I usually use.

Please does anyone have a link to a simple working example of at the very least a list of the JARs is actually need as this is beyond a joke.

JSF fell flat on it's face when I tried it, seems Struts2/Hibernate3 is going the same way at the moment!

Cheers

KS

[David Newton]

Why not use Maven, which manages library dependencies for you?

A minimal S2 app requires maybe a half-dozen jars. I don't actually know how many jars Hibernate requires; the ORM forum might be a better place to look for that.

Yes, people are using it. People are using JSF, too.

[Kevin P Smith]

OK
Got a simple 1 page Struts2 page thing going, minus the Hibernate (1 step at a time!)

Was just wondering, can you use Annotations for Struts rather than the horrid struts.xml for navigation?

[David Newton]

You might try a different approach when asking questions.

The convention plugin provides both configuration-free and annotaton-driven configuration.