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Struts 2 Features

The important features of struts 2 framework are as follows:
  1. Configurable MVC components
  2. POJO based actions
  3. AJAX support
  4. Integration support
  5. Various Result Types
  6. Various Tag support
  7. Theme and Template support

1) Configurable MVC components
In struts 2 framework, provide all the components (view components and action) information in struts.xml file. If we need to change any information, we can simply change it in the xml file.

2) POJO based actions
In struts 2, action class is POJO (Plain Old Java Object) i.e. a simple java class. Here, you are not forced to implement any interface or inherit any class.

3) AJAX support
Struts 2 provides support to ajax technology. It is used to make asynchronous request i.e. it doesn't block the user. It sends only required field data to the server side not all. So it makes the performance fast.

4) Integration Support
We can simply integrate the struts 2 application with hibernate, spring, tiles etc. frameworks.

5) Various Result Types
We can use JSP, freemarker, velocity etc. technologies as the result in struts 2.

6) Various Tag support
Struts 2 provides various types of tags such as UI tags, Data tags, control tags etc to ease the development of struts 2 application.

7) Theme and Template support
Struts 2 provides three types of theme support: xhtml, simple and css_xhtml. The xhtml is default theme of struts 2. Themes and templates can be used for common look and feel.
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