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Asked: 2026-06-09T21:18:34+00:00

I have a maven multi-module project. project-services (service layer..above the dao layer) project-controller (My

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I have a maven multi-module project.

project-services (service layer..above the dao layer)
project-controller (My Action classes sits in this module)
project-web (all jsps, view artificats)

The issue is I have a valid DefaultProjectsAction-validation.xml in the package with DefaultProjectsAction.java as well as the properties file.

All these modules, when the war file is deployed will be in /WEB-INF/lib. I use in struts.xml the default package. All files are correctly set-up. Spellings errors on the the file names checked properly. Will my struts validations work if the validation xml files are in a seperate jar. I read somewhere where they say it should be in WEB-INF/classes/. Is this the reason why my struts form can’t be validated?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok it’s exactly 48 hours since I started looking at this problem and ladies and gentlemen the solution has been found.

    Putting struts 2 action classes on a seperate module and validation set-up has to go like this.

    project-controller (will have action classes for Struts 2 in this case)
 - com.pack.UserAction.java

    The solution is to create a source folder src/main/resources/com/pack (Maven project) in project-web module and put UserAction-validation.xml in there. Like this 

    project-web (views, jsps, properties files and set-up files)
 - src/main/resources/com/pack/UserAction-validation.xml

    The file will be copied to /WEB-INF/classes/com/pack (The action class package should form the path) and on building the project

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