NOTE: This is very much a work in progress, and this is quite literally "step one".
Tools and inputs I used for this process:
- Claude Code
- https://github.com/apache/struts-examples
- https://github.com/moderneinc/moderne-docs
- https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite-docs
Using https://github.com/moderneinc/moderne-docs and https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite-docs as both reference documentation and a source for existing recipes (found under lower tree structures), create a plan for modernizing existing Apache Struts applications, both in this directory and others that exist, and migrating them to the latest supporting production version of Spring Boot. Create a checklist of your actions and check each item off as it is complete; this will be used as a guide for future efforts as well. List all existing OpenRewrite (OR) and Moderne OR recipes that go into this update/migration process and create new OpenRewrite recipes to complete the process.
Please refer to the other Markdown, yaml, and Java files produced by Claude Code. These aren't intended to be the "final solution" -- I feel it important to repeat that -- but may serve as inspiration and/or a cautionary tale as we move forward. And by we, I mean me, along with anyone reading this who may be interested or intrigued. Go crazy and remember "sharing is caring". :)
What follows is content from the original Struts examples README:
This Maven multi-module project contains all the Struts 2 example applications that are part of the Getting Started Struts 2 tutorials at http://struts.apache.org.
To build all the example applications run the Maven command:
mvn -e clean package
In the project's root folder, Maven will build each module and create a .war file in the target sub-folder of each module.
You can then copy the .war files to your Servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish, etc).
There is a README file in each module with instructions and the URL to view that application.
The examples are using the latest Struts version, if you are looking for older versions please take a look on the Releases page.