Integrating Struts 2 with Hibernate.

I want to use Hibernate with Struts 2 for persistence. Does Struts 2 has ORM framework support like Spring framework OR do we have to write our own Hibernate code in Struts 2 action classes. I have searched the net for articles(http://cwiki.apache.org/S2WIKI/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html) but couldn't find a good article which explains how to integrate struts 2 with Hibernate. Please Help as i am unable to fins a solution. Thanks in advance.

no there is no framework in struts for ORM...you have to write hibernate layer and intergrate with struts 2...

A good approach is design integration tier to hand abstraction for hibernate layer...entier hibernate code should be encapsulated using DAO approach..

I had been working on application that has same configurations.incase of further issue let me know.

I tried Hibernate integration with struts 2. I wrote the code for hibernate. The problem is that my form data is not being populated with values.

The values are coming null.

struts.xml

Register.jsp

Register.java

public class Register extends ActionSupport {

public String execute() throws Exception{

Session session = null;

try{
        System.out.println("Starting");

SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration()
.addResource("register.hbm.xml")
.setProperty("hibernate.connection.url","jdbc:mysql://localhost/sidstruts2Project")
.setProperty("hibernate.connection.driver_class","com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")
.setProperty("hibernate.connection.username","root")
.setProperty("hibernate.connection.password","root")
.setProperty("hibernate.connection.pool_size", "10")
.setProperty("hibernate.show_sql","true")
.setProperty("hibernate.format_sql","true")
.setProperty("hibernate.use_sql_comments","true")
.setProperty("hibernate.generate_statistics","true")
.setProperty("hibernate.dialect","org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect")
.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto","update")
.buildSessionFactory();

session = sessionFactory.openSession();

Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();

RegisterationForm r = new RegisterationForm();
r.setFirstname(getFirstname());
//System.out.println("First name Is as follows : "+getFirstname())
r.setLastname(getLastname());
r.setAddress(getAddress());
r.setEmail(getEmail());
r.setAge(getAge());

session.save(r);

tx.commit();

}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}

return SUCCESS;
}

private boolean isInvalid(String value){
return (value==null || value.length() == 0 );
}

private String firstname;
private String lastname;
private String address; 
private String email;
private int age;

public String getFirstname() {
System.out.println("In getter of first Name");
return firstname;
}
 
public void setFirstname(String firstname) {
System.out.println("In setter of first Name");
this.firstname = firstname;
}
 
public String getLastname() {
System.out.println("In getter of Last Name");
return lastname;
}
 
public void setLastname(String lastname) {
System.out.println("In setter of last Name");
this.lastname = lastname;
}
 
public String getAddress() {
System.out.println("In getter of address");
return address;
}
 
public void setAddress(String address) {
System.out.println("In setter of address");
this.address = address;
}
 
public String getEmail() {
System.out.println("In getter of email");
return email;
}
 
public void setEmail(String email) {
System.out.println("In setter of Email");
this.email = email;
}
 
public int getAge() {
System.out.println("In getter of age");
return age;
}
 
public void setAge(int age) {
System.out.println("In setter of age");
this.age = age;
}

}